212 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



figure. Jo-urn. de Phys. tome lxxxvii. pi. i. f. 1. which 

 exhibits no ventrals. 



In a third tribe the snout is short, and the mouth 

 cleft obliquely. 



Cepola, Lin. 1 



A long dorsal and anal, both reaching to the base of 

 the caudal, which is tolerably large ; no rise in the 

 cranium ; snout very short ; lower jaw curved upwards ; 

 the teeth prominent, and the ventrals sufficiently deve- 

 loped. There are but two or three non-articulated 

 rays in the dorsal, which are as flexible as the others ; 

 the spine of the ventrals is alone stiff and sharp ; 

 there are six rays in the gills, and the abdominal 

 cavity is very short as well as the stomach ; there are 

 some cceca and a natatory bladder, which extends 

 into the base of the tail. 



Cep. rubescens, L., Lin. Trans. VII. xvii. and Bloch. 

 170, under the false name of Cep. tcenia 2 , a Mediter- 

 ranean species of a red colour. 



Lopiiotes, Giorna. 



A short head, surmounted by a high osseous crest to 

 the summit of which a long and stout spine is articu- 

 lated, bordered behind with a membrane, while a low 



i This name of Cepola, given by Willughby as a Roman syno- 

 nyme of the Fierasfer, has been applied by Linn, to the present 

 genus, to which the Fierasfer does not belong. 



2 Add the Cepola japonica, Krusenst. Voy. pi. lx. f. 1. 



