310 SMEAR-DAB FLOUNDER. Class IV. 



It was a fish of goodness equal to the com- 

 mon dab.* 



" The lips are projecting. The dorsal fin 

 consists of about ninety rays : the tail is 

 rounded. The two principal fins have no 

 pointed extension of breadth near the center. 

 The length of a specimen from Mount's Bay, 

 was twelve inches ; the breadth five inches and 

 an half. The greatest common weight is about 

 two pounds. It is very frequent on the coast 

 of Cornwall. Of the few that are brought 

 to London, the principal part are from the trawls 

 of BrLvham, and the Sussex coast : they are in 

 season during the autumn and winter months. 

 At Bath they are known by the name of the 

 Lemon Sole, at Plymouth, of the Merry Sole, 

 at Looe, of the Kit, and at Penzance, of the 

 Queen, or Queen Fish. E. H." 



* This is probably the Vraie Limandelle of Duhamel Tr. 

 des Pesches. iii. sect. g. tab. 6. Jig. 3. 4. It is also mentioned by 

 Mr. Neill in the list of fishes found in the Frith of Forth, under 

 the name of Pleurotiectes microcephalics, Sand-fleuk. Mem. 

 JVern. Soc. 537. Ed. 



