FISHES. ACANTHOPT. 
Cepola. 
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Gen. LIV. CEPOLA. Band-fish. — Dorsal, anal, and caudal 
fins continuous ; upper jaw very short. 
114. C. rubescens. Red Band-fish. — Colour carmine, with 
waved silvery bands on the sides. 
Serpens rubescens, Will.'Lch.. 118.— C. rub. Linn. Syst. i. 445. Mmt. 
Linn. Trans, vii. 291, t. xvii. Couch, ib. vol. xiv. 17 — South coast of 
England. 
Length 10 to 15 inches. Body smooth, semipellucid, tapering from the 
head to the tail. Mouth large, sloping upwards ; jaws with one row of dis- 
tant, subulate, curved teeth ; tongue short, smooth. Eyes large ; irides 
silvery, mixed with crimson. Lateral line curved near the head in front of 
the pectorals. D. 17, P- 16, rounded, V. 6, oval, the first ray short, spiny, 
with a filament adjoining longer than the other rays, and detached from 
them ; A. 61, C. 12, the middle ray longest. Two specimens of this fish oc- 
curred to Montagu on the south coast of Devon, and two from Cornwall 
have come into the possession of Mr Couch. According to Risso (Ich. 155.), 
it is frequently caught at Nice in May, July, and December — The C. Tcenia 
is distinguished from this species by the double row of teeth in the lower 
jaw, and the rough tongue, and the absence of the silvery bands. 
The Gymnetrus Hawkenii of Bloch (tab. 423.), and Shaw (General Zool. iv. 
p. 198.) here merits some notice. “ It appears (says the latter) from a print 
published in the year 1798, that a specimen of this fish was thrown on the 
coast of Cornwall in the month of February in the same year. Its length 
was 8 feet 6 inches, its breadth in the widest part 10| inches, and its thick- 
ness only 2\ inches. The tail in this specimen was wanting. The colours 
the same as in the specimen figured by Bloch.” In the specimens hitherto 
obtained, the caudal fin has been wanting, though in the published figures 
it has not been withheld. Indeed, the circumstance of the ventrals being fi- 
lamentous with expanded extremities, would alone lead to the conclusion 
that it was the Regalecus glesne of Ascanius, a species found in the northern 
sea. 
Gen. LV. TRICHIURUS. Blade- fish.— Tail pointed ; 
no ventral, anal, or caudal fins. Scales indistinct. 
115. Le'pturus. — Colour silvery ; lower jaw advanced. 
Lepturus, Artedi^ Ich. Desc. 111. — T. Lept. Linn. Syst. i. 429. Block, 
Ich. t. 158. Hoy, Linn, Trans, xi. 210. 
Two specimens of this fish have been found dead and cast ashore in the 
Moray Frith, and examined by Mr James Hoy. The first on the 2d Nov. 
1810, after a high wind from the north, was found at Port Gordon. “ Its head 
was much broken, probably by being dashed upon the rocks about low-water 
mark ; the bones of the upper part of the head still remained, and the sockets 
of the eyes were distinguishable very near to each other : the extremity of 
the upper jaw, or upper part of the mouth, was entire; upon either side of 
which was an operculum. The length of the head could not be measured 
exactly, but was about 8 or 9 inches. The body, from the gills to the point 
of the tail, was 3 feet 2 inches long ; its greatest breadth 6^ inches ; and its 
greatest thickness only an inch. The vent was 2 inches from the gills : these 
were much broken, and partly gone, so that the number of rays could not be 
ascertained. Both sides of the fish were wholly white, without a spot up- 
on them ; the dorsal fin was the only part of a different colour, being a black- 
ish-green : this fin ran all along the back from the gills to the tail, consist- 
