Class IV. RED BAND FISH. £85 



Sect. IIL 



THORACIC FISHES. 



GENUS XXVIII. BAND FISH. 



Head short : teeth curved, sharp. 

 Body very long and compressed. 

 Abdomen extremely short. 



Cepola rubescens. C. pinna Brunn. pise. mass. 28. !• R ED ? 



caudag attenuata maxillis a- Montagu in Lin. Tr. vii. 2QI. 



cutis. Gm. Lin. 1187. Mus. tab. 17. 



Ad. Fr. ii. 63. Le Cepole serpentiforme. De 

 Tsenia serpens rubescens dicta. la Cepede Hist. desPoissons, 



Arted. Synon. 115. ii. 52Q. 



[THIS fish has been added to the list of Bri- 

 tish species by Mr. Montagu, and thus de- 

 scribed by that excellent naturalist from a spe- 

 cimen taken in Salcomb bay on the coast of 

 Devonshire, in February 1 803. 



" Long, slender, smooth, semi-pellucid, Descrip- 

 somewhat compressed sideways, tapering from 

 the head gradually to the tail ; head not larger 



