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that the last of its rays is barely on a line with the base of the 

 pectoral : it is, of course, shorter than the belly, and therefore 

 does not reach, as in Gigas, to the aperture of the vent : the 

 first of its rays is also immediately under the first dorsal ; hence 

 it differs from rubescens, -where the ventral is under the second 

 dorsal ray. The caudal fin has thirteen rays ; and is not quite 

 double the length of the head. Mr. YarreU received this from 

 near Nice, under the name oiruhescens; but it cannot be either 

 our rubescens or novem radiata. 



CEPOLA variegata. 



Body with wayed^ transverse^ clouded spots ; pectoral 

 fin reaching beyond the vent ; ventral fin shorter and 

 pointed ; scales conspicuous. 



Inhabits China. Zoological Societv's Museum. 



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A wet specimen of this fish, not in the best condition, is in the collection 

 of the Zoological Society. Although the tail is injured, it appears to me 

 readily distinguishable from all the foregoing by the spotted and clouded 

 surface of the body, and by the relative position and proportion of the 

 lateral fins. The ventral fins are shorter than the pectoral, having the first 

 (or second ?~> ray ending in a filamentous point, which exactly reaches to 

 the vent. The pectoral fin is placed just under the interval between the 

 second and third dorsal rays ; it measures seven-eighths of an inch, and 

 reaches beyond the vent. The caudal fin is partly injured, so that the num- 

 ber of its rays cannot be correctly ascertained ; but sufficient is left to show 

 that it was rather short and lanceolate. The total length of the specimen 

 is one foot ; and the shape of the head, body, &c. presented no obvious 

 difference from the C. rubescens, except that the scales appeared, both to 

 lUr. \Vaterhouse and myself, proportionately much larger. 



FIERASFER acus {fig. 130. a.) 



Body sub-hyaline^ pale red with numerous waved trans- 

 verse lines ; tliroat and lower jaw without spots. 



Ophidium imberbe ? Auciorum. 

 Fierasfer imberbe ? Cuv. 

 acus. Risso. 



Of this remarkable and rare fish, 

 hitherto so little understood, and so 

 imperfectly described, I was enabled 

 to make a coloured drawing and de- 

 scription at Palermo, soon after the 

 specimen was caught. An outline 

 of the former has been already in- 

 troduced at page 260. 



Shape large, attenuated, beginning gradually to diminish from just behind 

 the pectoral tin, and to narrow to a fine point. The body is nearly trans- 



