PLATE 24 
tLATE cr. 
CEPOLA RUBESCENS. 
RUBE SCENT BAND-FISH, 
•** P/SCES THORACIC I. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
subiotund and compressed : teeth curved, and usually in a 
row : gill-membrane with about six rays : body ensiform, 
: abdomen scarcely the length of the head. 
SPECIFIC CHAR.1CTER, 
Rubescent: caudal fin tapering: jaws pointed. 
RUBESCENS, Rubesccns, pinnae caudae attenuata, maxil- 
lis acutis. 
^EPola RUBESCENS: pinna caudae attenuata maxillis acutis. Mus. 
Ad. Fr. 2. p. 63. 
^phidium macrophthalmum. Linn. Sj/st. Nat. X. p, 259. 
"^^enia serpens rubescens dicta. Art. Syn. 115? 
^'cheloyopus totus pallide rubent, 'in imo ventre albescens, See. 
Klein, miss. pise. 14. p. 57, n. IQ ? 
^enia rubra. IVill. Ichlh. p, 117. — Eaj. pise. p. 71. n. 10. 
^^Pola rubescens. Mont. Linn, Trans, v. 7. p. 291. 
■^n interefting account of this beautiful and curious species appears 
^ paper written by G. Montagu, Esq. in the seventh volume of 
