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variegated coloration. Steindacbner, however, compares it with iSolea 

 Icleini, which it much resembles iu color, but from which it differs in 

 numerous respects. We have not seen the species. 



94. SOLEA BRASILIENSIS. 



iSolai brasiliensis (Cuvier Mss.) Agassiz, Spix Pise. Brasil., 1829, 87 (Brazil). Kaup, 

 Wiegmann's Archiv, 1858, 95 (Montevideo); 



Habitat. — Coast of Brazil. 



We know this species only-froin the descriptions of Agassiz and Kaup. 

 These two accounts do not agree very well and may refer to different 

 fishes. It would appear to be very close to the European sole. Xone 

 of the collections from Brazil in the museum at Cambridge contain any 

 species of Solea. 



95. SOLEA KLEINI. 



Rhombus kleinii Risso, "Europe Meridionale, iii, 1826, 255.'' 



Solea kletnil Gihither, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1882, iv, 464, and of numerous writers. 



Solea luctuosa Guichenot, Explor. Algerie, Poissons, 1850, 107. 



Habitat. — Mediterranean Sea. 



This species is subject to great variations in color, some of our speci- 

 mens being excessively spotted, others almost plain. In all cases, how- 

 ever, the coloration of the pectoral is distinctive. Our specimens are 

 from Venice and from Palermo. 



96. SOLEA AURANTIACA. 



(The Lemon Sole.) 



Solea aurantiaca GUnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 1862, 467. 



Habitat. — Coasts of Europe, north to England. 



We have not seen this species. According to Dr. Day it is identical 

 with Pleuronectes nasutus Pallas, and he regards both as the same as 

 the original Pleuronectes lascaris Risso. Day therefore adopts for the 

 Lemon Sole the name of Solea lascaris. Knowing none of these fishes 

 from autopsy we can have no opinion of value in this matter, but it 

 would seem to us that the Solea aurantiaca of GUnther and also the 

 PI. lascaris of Risso correspond better to the species called lascaris in 

 the present paper than to the Pleuronectes nasutus of Pallas, which is 

 the Solea theophila of this paper. 



97. SOLEA LASCARIS. 



Plturonectes lascaris Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, p. 311, tab. 7, f. 32. 



Solea lascaris Giiuther, iv, 467. Steindachuer, Ichth. Berichte, vi, 1868, 5'J. 



Rhombus polus Risso, " Europe Meridionale, iii, 249," 1826 (not Pleuronectes polus 



Cuvier). 

 Solea scriba Valenciennes, Webb A: Bertholot, lies Canaries, Poissons, 84, pi. 18, f. 3. 



Habitat. — Mediterranean Sea. 



