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CHAPTER III. 



SOLEA VULGARIS, QCESSBL. 

 [PLATES I to V.] 



Synonymy. 



ftoi--/\u.'affoi, A then, vii, p. 288. 



" Lingulaca," Varro and Plautus. 



" Solea," Ovid, v. 124 ; Plin., ix, c. 16. 



''Bnglossns sive Solea," Kondeletius, xi, c. 11, p. 320, and other mediaeval authors. 



" La Sole," Rondelet, 1558, French edition, Lyons, p. 256. 



' Plenronectes, sp.," Artedi, 1734, Genera, p. 18, No. 6 ; Species, p. 60, No. 5 ; Synonymia, 



p. 32, No. 8. 

 %i Pleuronectes solea," Lin., Sytf. Nat., 1, p. -157 ; Bloch, 1784, Fi*che Deiitschl., ii, p. 42, 



taf. 45 ; Lacepede, iv, p. G23 ; Donovan, 1808, Brit. Fish., Hi. pi. 52; Risso, 1810, 



IcJith. Nice, p. 307. 



" Sole," Pennant, Brit. Zool., iii, p. 203. 

 ' La Sole," Dnhamel, iii, sec. 9, p. 257, pi. 1. 

 ''Solea vnlgaris," Quensel, 1806, Vet. Akad. Handl., p. 230; Risso, 1826, Nat. 



Hist. Eur. Mer., iii, p. 247 ; Bonaparte, Fauna Ital., iii, 26 ; Gunther, 1862, 



Brit. Mus. Catal., iv, p. 463; Moreau, 1881, Poissons de la France, p. 304; 



Francis Day, 1884, Fish. Gt. Brit, awl Ire., p. 39, pi. cvi. 



A COMPAKISON of the above figures gives the following results. There are no 

 constant sexual differences in any of the ten characters given in the table, except 



