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irregular interrupted stripes, instead of regular dark bands. It is possible that in 

 Donovan's specimen the markings were as he figured them, but I have never seen such 

 a variety of colouring, and it is more probable that in the single dead specimen from 

 the market he did not perceive the markings accurately. 



The species was independently described as new by Eisso in his "Ichth. de Nice": that 

 his species is the same is evident from his accurate description of the colour and 

 markings and some other characters. He gave it the name Pleuronectes mangilii^ after 

 the surname of one of his contemporaries. In his later work, the " Hist. Nat. de 1'Europe 

 Meridionale," he calls the species Rhombus mangili. He gives no figure. 



Yarrell, in his first edition, gives a description and a woodcut from a specimen from 

 Cornwall, but his figure looks as if it had been copied from Donovan's plate. Yarrell 

 incorrectly identified the species with the Solea lingula of Eondelet, the Linguatula of 

 Cuvier, a mistake which he afterwards corrected in his supplement. 



Bonaparte gives an excellent description and a coloured figure of the species under 

 the name Solea mangilii, identifying it with Eisso's species. His figure beautifully 

 shows the dark transverse bands terminating at either end in black blotches which 

 extend on to the fins. 



Gtinther in his Catalogue gave a complete and correct account of the synonymy 

 of the species ; his list of synonyms shows that the species has been described 

 independently at least four times, first as the Pole panachee by Duhamel, then as 

 PI. variegatus by Donovan, as PL microchirus by Delaroche, and as PL mangilii 

 by Eisso. 



Moreau and Day give good descriptions of the species. The former gives no figure; 

 the figure of the latter is not good, it gives the markings very incorrectly. 



