3 s 
PLATE CXVIL 
PLEURONECTES VARIEGATUS. 
^ VARIEGATED SOLE. 
*»*PISCES THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARu^VCTER. 
Head small. Eyes spherical, both on the same side of the head, 
near each other. Mouth arcuated. Jaws dentated, unequal, 
^’h-tnembrane with fiom four to seven rays. Gill-covers of three 
Plates in general. Body compressed, carinated ; upper side sub-con- 
beneath flat and pale. Vent nearer the head. 
SPECIFIC CHAR-ACTER. 
Sody oblong ; pale, clouded or marbled with fuscous : scales 
^i-Suhonectes Variegatus : corpore oblongo, pallido fusco-ne- 
buloso: squamis magnis. 
This interesting acquisition was caught on our coast in die month 
April 1807, and brought by the fishermen with other flat fish 
sale to the Billingsgate market. The fish is very curious, and 
'^Jistitutes an intermediate species between several of the described 
of die Pleuronectes genus, being allied in some particular 
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