94 FISHES. THOHAGtCt 12-15. 



ORDER III. THORACICI*. THORACIC. 



12. CEJPOLA. Band-fish. 



37. C. rubescejis. Pale red* with silvery undulate tran 

 verse lines : tail lanceolate. 



RedBandfish. Mpntague Linn. Trans, vii. p. 201. fai. 17. 



itoqfy 10 inches long, tapering to a point : Aead not larger than the 

 body : j'fltyj armed with a row of distant curved teeth: eyes large, 

 iris silvery mixed with crimfon, pupil Blue-black : gill-colers sil- 

 very, of 2 pieces, the^embrane 4-rayed -/dorsal, caudal, and and/ 

 ,/frjj- united, reaching nearly all round £6e body ; pectofai,' rounded, 

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

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

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

 writ hear, the brea.sj, 



13, epWK^S, Smhin^jfis/t, 



38. E.J$einora. Dusky-brown, with about 18 bars on the 

 shield : tail slightly forked . 



JE^impean Sucking T fjsh.. Shaw Zoo I '. iv.p. 201. t. 31. 



Taken, by the. JV ut hor, in Swanfea, from the back of a Cod-fish, 

 in the fummer of 1806. ' ■ . 1 \m. -at 



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

 rous impressed dots ; head rounded in front, jaws with numerous 

 sharp teeth, the lower-one longer : jfaV/J.'margined., divided down 

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

 2 or 3 rows of fmall fpines : tongue andyWatebefet with fmall teeth: 

 near the upper-lip' are 2" pt>r'es each side :■ aperture of the gills large, 

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

 fin : vent nearer the tail: dorsal-Jin 22«rayed v ; pectoral 22 ; ventral 

 4 j anal 20 j tail femilunar, 20-rayed. 



14. GO&IU&. Gofy, 

 39* G. nigw* Variegated whitish and brown : second 

 dorsal-fin with about 14 rays. 



Black Goby. Br. Zool. iii.' t. 38.Shaw Zool. iv. /. 34. 



Body 5 or 6 inches long, covered With hard grey fcalesj foft, 

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

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

 pale blue fpeckled with black: belly yellowish: later a I. line obfolete: 

 venf'm the middle of the body : dorjal-fins 6, 14-rayed : pectoral. 16 

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

 anal 15% tail rounded, 17-rayed. 



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

 bjue : fins with obscure ferruginous streaks. 



Spotted Goby Donovan's British Fishes, tab.' 28. 



'Body about 3 inches long : head depressed : tonguelzrge : teeth in 

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

 remote, 6 t 11 -rayed ; pectoral- 20: ventral. 19 ; anal 11 j tail even, 

 a6-rayed. 



15. COTTUS. Bullhead. 



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

 black, beneath whitish : gill-covers each with 2 

 curved spines. 



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



Body 5 or 6 inches long, taper : head very large : eyes fmall, in 

 the middle of the head, iris yellowish, pupil black : jaws equal ; 



