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CEPOLA. 



The bod)- lengthened, compressed, of nearly uniforui breadth until 

 near the tail. Head sloping rapidly; angle of the jaw depressed; vent 

 not far from the throat. Dorsal and anal fins long, running close to 

 the tail, which is continued in the same line with the body. Ventral 

 fins thoracic. 



RED BANDFLSH. 



RED SXAKEFISH. RED RTBBANDFISH. 



This species appears to have been known to the older writers 

 on Natural History; but the figures they give of Serpens 

 rubescens and Tcenia cannot be regarded as representing this 

 fish. If also our Red Bandfish be the Cepola Tcenia of Bloch, 

 the figure of this author is a poor representation of it. 



Cepola rubescens, TuRTON ; Linua3us. Cuvier. 



Donovan; pi. 105. 

 " " Fleming; Br. Auimals, p. 20-k 



" " Jenyns; Manual, p. 374. 



Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 224. 

 " " GuNTHER; Cat. Br. Museum, vol. iii, p. 486. 



This fisb Avas first made known as British by Colonel Montagu, 

 at the beginning of the present century, from two specimens 

 Avhicli be had obtained on the south coast of Devonshire; but 

 since his day, no doubt from an increase of observers, it has 

 been found far from rare, and examples have come to hand on 

 almost every part of the shores of the British Islands, even to 

 the extreme north of Scotland. Mr. Thompson records specimens 

 from different parts of Ireland. It has been taken near Ayr, 

 and Mr. Beach has seen it near Wick; but still it is more 



