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States of America confess that their country is inferior to Europe is that they have 

 neitlier the sole nor the turbot in their seas. The only species of Solea on the 

 northern part of the Atlantic coast of tlie United States is Solea achirus, Linnaeus, a 

 species with no pectoral fins, which grows to the length of only six inches, and is 

 quite useless as food. Solea inscripta, Gosse, occurs at Jamaica. Other similar species, 

 with pectorals rudimentary or absent, occur at the Keys of Florida. Solea reticulata, 

 Gronovii, maculipinnis, mentalis, Jenynsii, in Dr. Giinther's catalogue, are all forms 

 witli rudimentary pectorals occurring on the Atlantic coasts of the West Indies 

 and South America. In tlie Indian Ocean, according to Dr. Glinther, there is one 

 species, Solea Indica, from Madras, also belonging to the subgenus Achirus. In the 

 East Indian seas there are several species known: Solea heterorhina, from Celebes 

 and Amboyna, and Solea humilis, from the Malacca Straits and Java, with well 

 developed pectorals ; Solea trichodactylus and S. Thepassii, with rudimentary 

 pectorals. Solea microcephala lives on the coast of New South Wales in Australia; 

 further north on the west side of the Pacific we have S. Japonica, from Japan, 

 S. ovata, from Chinese seas. On the east side of the Pacific, on the coast of Central 

 America, there are Solea scutum, S. Fonsecensis and *S'. fimbriata. Thus the genus is 

 well represented in all the tropical seas, extending into the temperate zones both to 

 the north and south. But no species is of any importance as human food except the 

 Solea vidgaris of Europe. 



