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ROUGH-FINNED BAND-FISH. 



Cepola Trachyptera. C. capite declivi, maxilla utraqve foni^ 

 cata, pinnis acukatis aerratis scabris. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 

 p. 1187. 



Band-fish with sloping head, arched jaws, and prickly, serrated,, 

 rough fins. 



NATIVE of the Mediterranean : observed in the 

 Adriatic Gulf: described as having a strait lateral 

 line, with a single row of scales, and the first rays 

 of the fins strong, sharp, and rough. 



HERMANNIAN BAND-FISH. 



Cepola Hermanniana-. C. capite angulato, oculis minimis, cm 



cirroso, cauda subulata. 

 Band-Fish with angular head, extremely small eyes, bearded 



mouth, and sabulate tail. 

 Le Taenioidc Hermannien. Cepede, 2. p. 533, pi. 14 



DESCRIBED by Cepede, who ranks it in a distinct 

 genus, under the title of Tcenioides. He observes 

 that though of the same general form, thinness, &c^ 

 yet it differs in many points from the true Cepolae. 

 The eyes are so small as to be with great difficulty 

 discovered, and consist of two small black points : 

 there is no caudal fin, the tail terminating in the 

 same manner as in the Trichiures, viz, in a fine 

 point : the dorsal fin, which is very shallow, with 

 soft rays, commences at no great distance from 

 the head, and is continued to the extremity of the 



