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CHAPTER IV. 



[PLATE VI.] 



Synonymy. 



" Pleuronectes lascaris," Risso, 1810, IchtTiyologie de Nice, p. 311. 



" Solea lascaris," Risso, 1826, Hist. Nat. de VEur. Her., t. iii, p. 249. 



"Solea nasuta," Nordm, in Demid. Voy. Russ. Merid. Zool., iii, Poissons, Tab. 31. 



" Solea lascaris," Bonaparte, 1841, Fauna Italica, t. iii, 27*, with 2 figures. 



" Solea pegusa," Yarrell, 1829, Zool. Journal, vol. iv, p. 467, pi. 16. 



" Lemon Sole," Yarrell, 1836. Brit. Fishes, first edition, vol. ii, p. 260. 



" Solea anrantiaca," Giinther, 1862, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. iv, p. 467. 



" Solea lascaris," Moreau, 1881, Poissons de la France, t. iii, p. 307. 



"Solea lascaris," Francis Day, 1884, Fishes, Gt. Brit, and Ire., vol. ii, p. 42, pi. 107 



OF this species I have only been able to make a detailed examination of the four 

 specimens whose numerical peculiarities are given in the above table. 



Comparison of the above characters with those of Solea vulgaris shows that the 

 present species is much broader in proportion to its length than the former, that the 

 proportion of the length of the head to the total length is about the same, that the 

 vertebrae are fewer in number, and the scales larger in proportion to the length of 

 the body. 



