TION. 



324 WHIFF FLOUNDER. Class IV. 



11. Whiff. Pleuronectes pseudopalus. PI. Passer Cornulicnsisasper,mag' 

 oculis sinistris, corpore ob- no oris hiatu. Mr. Jago. 



longo, maxilla inferiore Ion- Raii syn. pise. 1 63. Jig. 2. 



giore, pinna caudas fere qua- Tour in Wales, ed. 1810. i. 

 drata. E. Hanmer. Mss. 2Q. tab. 3. 



X HIS bears some resemblance to the Holibut. 

 One was brought to me by my fisherman, Octo- 

 Descrip- ber 31, 1775. Its length was eighteen inches; 

 the greatest breadth not seven, exclusive of the 

 fins ; the mouth extremely large ; the teeth very 

 small ; the under jaw hooks over the upper ; the 

 eyes large, and placed on the left side. The 

 scales great and rough ; the side line uncom- 

 monly incurvated at the beginning, after making 

 a sharp angle, it goes strait to the tail, and is 

 tuberculated ; the tail is rather rounded. The 

 color of the upper part of the body is cinereous 

 brown, clouded in parts, and obscurely spotted ; 

 the under side white, tinged with red. 



" The whole fish somewhat pellucid ; scales 

 easily separated from the skin ; head and jaws 

 large. The eyes elevated, the pupils purple ; 

 the irides yellow, with an effulgence resembling 

 the Pseudopalus or Cat's eye. The dorsal fin 

 which originates near the mouth, consists of 



