PLATE XCIV. 
rather incline to his opinion. Such reverse Flounders occur mote 
numerously with the ordinary sort than is commonly imagined : we 
have observed many. The fishermen maintain that it is by this cha' 
racteristic circumstance, the two sexes of the common Flounder 
to be distinguished. 
In the dorsal ray of the fislr selected for our figure, there wet® 
fifty five rays ; in the pectoral fin, eleven : ventral, five : anal, thirty 
nine: and tail, eighteen. 
Flounder. This is the only character by which Ploiicoucctcs roseus could be specific®''^ 
distinguished from PIcuroiioctcs flesus, the colour of the body, as before shewn, coiisd' 
tuting no criterion whatever of the species. — The only (igurcs extant of the PIcuroncctf* 
roseus, is that in tiie Naturalist’s Miscellany, pi. 233, and the same repeated in 
General Zoology. This ligme is ambiguous and very indiflVrcnt, the drawing of 
head is lost; the ey'cs in particular arc represented Imthof equal sire, large, proiuinenb 
and placed e.xnctly parallel to each other, while in the fish the very structures of I*’® 
scull would prevent such a disposition of the eyes. In the fish itself they are dispo^®*^ 
obliquely, one lower than the other, and differ in no respect from those of the coiiiu'®'* 
Flounder. The lateral line also, which is curved at the base, as in all the varieties 
this fish, is delineated in the above mentioned figute as almost straight throughout. 
