508 Survey of Fishing Grounds, West Coast of Ireland, 1890-1891. 



Solea lascaris, Risso. The Lemon-sole or Sand-sole. (Littoral.) 



Three examples were taken in Blacksod Bay, viz. two on the trawling-groimd, 

 at 5^ to 9 fathoms, and one at the margin in the small inlet known as Dugort 

 Bay. 



Solea Greenii, Giinther. (Deep-sea.) 



8. Greenii, Gunther, " Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.," iv., 1889, p. 419; 



...... BouENE, "Journ. M. B. Assoc," N.S , i., 1890, 



p. 312. 



Cunningham, ''The Common Sole, Plymouth," 



Mar. Biol. Assoc, 1890. 



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The species is known from only two examples. Of these, the first was 

 taken by Mr. Green, in the "Flying Fox," at 150 fathoms, and the second by 

 Mr. Bourne, at 217 fathoms, in both cases off the S.W. coast of Ireland. The 

 species has been described by Dr. Giinther and by Mr. J. T. Cunningham. It 

 appears to be of no great size, since a specimen of 18*8 cm. was found to be a 

 sexually mature female. It is regarded by Giinther as allied to ^S*. vulgaris and 

 S. variegata, between which two forms it is in some particulars intermediate. By 

 comparison of descriptions it appears to us to closely resemble B. profundicola 

 (Vaillant), a deep-water sole from the South Atlantic* 



Solea variegata, Fleming. The Thickback. (Deep-sea.) 



S. variegata, . ..... Vaillant, " Exp. Sci. Tray. Talism. Poiss.," p, 190, 



„ GiJNTHER, "Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,"iv., 1889, p.419. 



An example, 4 inches long, was trawled at 40 fathoms in Dingle Bay, and 

 another, about one inch long, was found in the stomach of a piper gurnard taken 

 at 62 to 52 fathoms off the Skelligs. The thickback is known to habitually 

 frequent rather deep water. There are two records of its occurrence beyond the 

 100 fathom-line, viz. at 162 fathoms in the Bay of Biscay, (Vaillant) and at 

 150 fathoms off the S.W. of Ireland (Giinther), 



* Vaillant, "Exp. Sci. Trav. TaHsm., Poies.," p. 19(>. 



