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Stylephorus, Shaw. 



A vertical caudal, as in Gymnetrus, but shorter; the extremity of 

 the tail, instead of being curved into a small hook, is prolonged into 

 a slender cord longer than the body. 



S. chordatus^ Shaw, Lin. Trans. I, vi, Nat. Misc., VII, pi. 

 274, and Gen. Zool., IV, part I, pi. ii. A badly preserved spe- 

 cimen, and the only one known. It was taken in the Gulf of 

 Mexico, and for a long time we only had the above mutilated 

 drawing of it. M. de Blainville however has given us a more 

 regular figure; Journ. de Phys, tome LXXXVII, pi. i, f. 1, 

 which exhibits no ventrals. 



In a third tribe the snout is short, and the mouth cleft ob- 

 liquely. 



Cepola, Lin.(l) 



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

 which is tolerably large; no rise in the cranium; snout short; lower 

 jaw curved upwards; the teeth prominent, and the ventrals suffi- 

 ciently developed. 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 branchiae, 

 and the abdominal cavity is very short as well as the stomach; there 

 are some cseca and a natatory bladder which extends into the base 

 of the tail. 



Cep. rubescens, L. ; Lin. Trans., VII, xvii; and Bl., 170, under 



the false name of Cep. txnia.(2) A Mediterranean species of a 



reddish colour. 



LopHOTEs, Giorna. 



A short head, surmounted with a high osseous crest; to whose sum- 

 mit a long and stout spine is articulated, bordered behind with a 

 membrane and a low fin, whose rays are nearly all simple, extending 

 from this spine to the point of the tail, which has a distinct, but very 

 small caudal; an extremely short anal beneath that point; moderate 

 pectorals, beneath which are scarcely perceptible ventrals, com- 



(1) This name of Cepola, given by Willughby as a Roman synonyme of the Fie- 

 rasfer, 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. i. 



