LINEATED FLOUNDER. 5'Fl 



side, and marked by spots somewhat resembling in 

 shape those on the tail of a peacock, being white 

 with brown centres : probably a native of the 

 Indian seas. 



This species (if such it be) together with the 

 two preceding, the lineated, the bilineated, and the 

 ornamented Sole, is unnecessarily placed by Cepede 

 in a distinct genus, under the title of Achirus, from 

 the circumstance* of wanting the pectoral fins. 



LINEATED FLOUNDER. 



Pleuronectes Lineatus. P. corpore fusco, scabro, nigro trans- 



versimfasdato, pinnis pectoralibvs nullis. 

 Brown, rough Flounder, with transverse black lines, and 



without pectoral fins. 

 Pleuronectes lineatus. P. oculls sinistris 9 corpore scabro nigro 



fasciato, pinnis pecforalibtts nullis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 45 S. 

 Passer lineis transversis. Sloane Jam. 2. p. 77 



. FORM that of a Turbot : length seven or eight 

 inches : body covered with small rough scales, and 

 of a deep brown above, marked by seven or eight 

 transverse black streaks : the rays of all the fins 

 and tail roughened by small shagreen-like tubercles: 

 under part of the body white, marked with round, 

 blackish spots. Native of the American seas. 



