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about I cwt. is recorded by Mr. Cornish in the ' Zoologist, 1 

 as captured on a spiller in Mount's Bay, on May I5th, 1882. 

 Pennant mentions it from the Menai Straits, and in April, 

 1829, an example 7% feet long and 320 Ibs. weight was 

 recorded from off the Isle of Man, and is perhaps the 

 example stated by Parnell to have been sent to the Edin- 

 burgh market. 



In Ireland. It is taken occasionally on all parts of the 

 coast from December until March. In Portrush, county of 

 Antrim, it is occasionally captured in winter on the cod 

 lines, baited either with the whelk or the flesh of various 

 fishes, chiefly wrasses. 



It attains to at least 500 Ibs. weight in Europe. Olfsson 

 mentioned one exceeding this from Iceland, and which was 

 said to have been little short of 20 feet in length, while 

 Couch was informed of a still larger example captured on 

 the banks of Newfoundland. 



GENUS 2. Hippoglossoides, Gottche. 

 i. Long-rough dab (Hippoglossoides limandoides). 



Names. Rough dab or long-rough dab ; bastard-sattie, 

 Aberdeen ; also yellow dab, Banff ; long fleuk and sand- 

 sucker, Edinburgh, the last name being due to the erroneous 

 idea that it feeds on nothing but sand. 



B. viii., D. 76-87, V. 6, A. 60-69, L- 1- 85-95, Caec. 

 pyl. 4, Vert. 45. 



Length of head 4f to 5 ; height of body 3 to 3^ in the 

 total length. Eyes. Divided by a narrow but scaled ridge, 

 diameter about one-fourth of the length of the head and 

 nearly i diameter from the end of the snout. The 

 anterior margin of each eye is on the same vertical line. 

 Cleft of mouth deep, the maxilla reaches posteriorly to 



