400 APFEXDEX. 



The general colour of the body is a beautiful vermilion pink, or flesh 



colour ; the sides with silvery blue, transverse stripes, but not defined, and 

 changing with the position ; belly the same ; the dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 fins are fine orange-yellow in the middle, the base light pink, and the 

 margin edged with a line of darker red : pectoral fin nearly white ; ventral 

 entirely so ; at about the sixth dorsal ray, in the middle of the fin, is a 

 bright red spot, sometimes almost broken into two, and always with the 

 margins undefined. The lateral lines, as in all the species of this genus 

 we have yet seen, commences at the upper extremity of the operculum ; 

 and then, by a short sudden curve, reaches close to the base of the dorsal, 

 and runs parallel to it the whole length of the fish. In regard to the situ- 

 ation of the fins, the ventral begins directly under the dorsal, and very 

 slightly in front of the pectoral: it is pointed, the second ray having a 

 short filament, but even this does not reach as far as the vent : the caudal 

 fin ^^^.1£7. c ' has a central ray, and only four others on each side, making 

 the lo^al number nine. By this it is further distinguished from our rubes, 

 cens, which has eleven such rays, while the comparative shortness of the 

 caudal fin distinguishes this from longicauda. 



CEPOLA attenuata. 



Caudal fin obsolete, not separated or distinguishable from 

 the pointed extremities of the dorsal and anal. 



Inhabits the coasts of Sicily, {fig. 127. f/. ) 



Amono; mv Sicilian drawings I find the finished outline of a 

 Cepola, having the tail terminating in a point {jig. 127.(1), as 

 in the genus Ophidiian, without any appearance of a distinct 

 dorsal fin. Its general shape and colour was that of the last, 

 except that the dors 1 has two spots, one on the seventh, which 

 is the largest, and the other on the ninth ray ; the pectoral 

 fin terminates in a line with the vent, and is placed a little be- 

 hind the ventral, this latter being directly under the com- 

 niencement of the dorsal. Tlie specunen was preserved in 

 spirits, and no further notes taken, so that further information 

 will be wanted to complete this description. It may be re- 

 marked, however, that in my drawing the anal fin is much 

 narrower than the dorsal, and the vent is immediately under 

 the seventh ray of that fim 



The figure of Mr. Yarrell's Cepola rubescens agrees with this in the 

 deficiency of a distinct caudal fin ; but it may still be a question, whether 

 both instances may not have arisen from inaccuracy ; since the fuciform 

 shape of this fin in the other species only becomes apparent when the tail 

 is very carefylly spread out in the fresh specimen. I may possibly, though 

 not probably, have omitted to do this in my Sicilian Cepola. 



CEPOLA truncata. 



Caudal fin truncate, and slightly lunated ; of six rays 

 only, not longer than those of the dorsal and ventral. 



Inhabits Sicily (fg. 127- ) 



