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on the upper parts, and several transverse, alter^ 

 nate, brownish shades continued along the body, 

 accompanied by large, distant round spots of a 

 similar colour : the fins and processes deep crimson ; 

 the pectoral fins pretty large in proportion. 



It appears from a print, published in the year 

 1798, that a specimen of this fish was thrown on 

 the coast of Cornwall in the month of February in 

 the same year. Its length was eight feet six inches, 

 its breadth in the widest part ten inches and a 

 half, and its thickness only two inches and three 

 quarters: the tail in this specimen was wanting: 

 the colours the same as in the specimen figured by 

 Dr. Bloch. 



CEPEDIAN GYMNETRUS. 

 Le Regalec lanceole. Cepede pise. 2.p.21<). 



THIS, which must be considered as a doubtful 

 species, is described by Cepede from a coloured 

 Chinese drawing belonging to the Museum of the 

 Prince of Orange. The author refers it to the pre- 

 sent genus from the circumstance of its wanting 

 the anal fin, and gives it the trivial name of lan- 

 ceolatus from the shape of its tail, which is pointed 

 at the tip. This fish is of a gold-colour, shaded 

 \vith brown, and is destitute of the ventral fins or 

 appendages so remarkable in the other species. 



