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eighty-four* rays. The tail, which at its extre- 

 mity is nearly straight or square, consists of 

 about fifteen rays; each ray towards the end 

 branches into smaller ones. The rays of all 

 the fins are united by a thin and almost color- 

 less membrane. The length of a specimen 

 from Mount' s-bay was fifteen inches, its breadth 

 six inches. It is very common at Mount's 

 Bay, the Land's End, and the neighboring 

 part of Cornwall, where it is known by the 

 name of the Lantern; at Plymouth, where it 

 is less frequent, it is called French Sole or 

 Megrim. Its flesh is considered of little va- 

 lue." E. H. 



Pleuronectes casurus. PI. cor- 

 pore oblongo, squamis deci- 

 duis, maxillis tequalibus, 

 pinna caudce rotundata. E. 

 Hanmer Mss. 



Arnoglossus vel Solea laevis. 



Will, ichth. 102. tab. F. 8. 



f.7-? 

 Raii syn. pise. 34. 4. ? 

 Rondel. 324. Ges?i.pi$c. 668. ? 



12. Scal® 

 Fish. 



" Jl_ HE color of the upper side a pale brown Descrip- 

 or dirty white. The body has something of 

 the same pellucid appearance as the Lantern, 



* " The reverend Hugh Davies counted, on a specimen 

 caught on the coast of Anglesey, eighty-one rays on the dorsal 

 fin, twelve on the pectoral, five on the ventral, sixty-four on the 

 anal, and seventeen on the tail. Ed. 



