94 FISHES. THORACICI. 12-15. 



ORDER III. THORACICI. THORACIC. 

 12. CEP.OLA. Band-fish. 



37. C. rubescens. Pale red^ with silvery undulate trans- 

 verse lines : tail lanceolate. 



Red Bandfish. Montague Linn. Trans, vii. p. 291. tab. 17; 



Body 10 inches long, tapering to a point : head not larger than thfc 

 body : jaws armed with a row of distant curved teeth : eyes large, 

 iris silvery mixed \\ T ith crimfon, pupil blue-black : gill-covers sil- 

 very, of 2 pieces, the membrane 4-rayed : dorsal, caudal, and anal 

 Jins united, reaching nearly all round the body ; pectoral, rounded, 

 i6-rayed; ventral whitish, clofe together, rather before the pecto- 

 ral, oval, 6-rayed, the first ray spinous, with a filament before them 

 longer than the rays : lateral-line a little curved near the head : 

 vent near the breast. 



13. ECHINEIS. Sucking-fish. 



38. E. Remora. Dusky-brown, with about 18 bars on the 

 shield : tail slightly forked. 



European Sucking-fish. Shaw Zool. iv.p. 201. t. 31. 



Taken by the Author, in Swanfea, from the back of a Cod-fish, 

 in the fummer of 1806. 



Body 12 or 14 inches long, without fcales, marked with nume- 

 rous impressed dots ; head rounded in front, jaws \vith numerous 

 sharp teeth, the lower-one longer : shield margined, divided down 

 the middle, with 16-19 more or lefs curved grooves armed with 

 2 or 3 rows of fmall fpines : tongue and palatebefet with fmall teeth: 

 near the upper-lip are 2 pores each side : aperture of the gills large, 

 the cover of one piece : lateral-line bent at the end of the pectoral- 

 fin : vent nearer the tail : dorsal-Jin 22-rayed ; pectoral 22 ; vet.tral 

 4 ; anal 20 ; tail femilunar, 2C-rayed. 



14. GOBIUS. Goby. 



39. G. nigcr. Variegated whitish and brown : second 

 dorsal-fin with about 14 rays. 



Black Goby. Br. Zool. iii. t. 3%. Shaw Zool. iv. t. 34. 



Body 5 or 6 inches long, covered with hard grey fcales> foft, 

 mucous ; jaws equal, with the teeth in 2 rows : cheeks inflated : from 

 the head to the first dorfal-fin a fmall cavity : dorsal and anal-fins 

 pale blue fpeckled with black : belly vellowishS lateral line obsolete: 

 vent in the middle of the body : dorjal-jins 6, grayed : pectoral 16 

 or 17, the middle-ray longest : ventral united in a fort of funnel 12 

 (inali$' t tail rounded, ly-rayed. 



40. G. minutus. Whitish, with ferruginous spots : eyes 

 blue : fins with obscure ferruginous streaks. 



Spotted Goby Donovan s British Fishes, tab. 28. 



Eody about 3 inches long : hmd depressed : tongue \zr%t : teeth in 

 both jaws: eyes large, prominent; iris fapphirine-blue : dorjal-fms 

 remote, 6, ii-rayed ; pectoral 20.- ventral 19 ; anal 11 ; tail even, 

 i6-rayed. 



15. COTTUS. Bu'lhead. 



41. C. Gobio. Smooth, yellowish -olive, spotted with 

 black, beneath whitish": gill-covers each with 2 

 curved spines. 



River Bullhead. Miller's Thumb. Pr. Zool. t. 39. Donov. t. 80. 



P.ody 5 or 6 inches long, taper : head very large : eyes fmall, in 

 the middle of the head, iris yellowish, pupil black : jauji equal : 



