36 PLEURONECTID E. 



SUBBRACHIAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. PLEURONECTID £. 



THE SOLENETTE, 



OR LITTLE SOLE. 



Monochirus linguatulus, Cuvier, Reo;. An. t. ii. p. 343. 



Solea parva sive lingula, Rondeletius, p. 324. 



La ■petite Sole, ,, French Edit. Lyons, p. 260. 



Solea parva sive lingula Rondeletii, Willoughby, p. 102, F. 8, fig. 1. 



Pleuronectes lingula, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 457, sp. 10. 



Moiwchirus minutus, Parnei.l, Mag. Zool. and Bot. vol. i. p. 527. 



At tlie time of writing tlie description of the Variegated 

 Sole (British Fishes, vol. ii. page 262), I had not seen a 

 specimen of the true Solea parva sive lingula of Rondeletius, 

 and now find that I have included two distinct species in the 

 synonymes employed to designate the Variegated Sole. The 

 Rev. L. Jenyns, in his Manual of British Vertebrate Ani- 

 mals, appears to have suspected that there was a fourth spe- 

 cies of Sole on our coast, since, at the conclusion of the de- 

 scription of his third species, he has observed, " further ob- 

 servation is necessary in order to decide whether, in this 

 instance, I have confounded two nearly allied species." 



In the published proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh for January 1837, Dr. Parncll has figured and 

 briefly described, under the name of Monochirus minutus^ a 



