the Linna;an Transactions, accompanied by a coloured representatioil 
of the fish in its natural size. The specimen from which the de- 
scription and figure were taken, was caught in Salcomb Bay, on tlic 
touth coast of Devonshire, on the 25th of February, 1803; and 
since that period another was captured in the same place, which Mr- 
Montagu has kindly favoured iis with for the purpose of investig^' 
tion, and with permission to delineate in the present work.— 
deem It a species of considerable rarity^ and are happy in being en- 
abled to present it to our readers. 
The specimen firft cauglit, and described in the Linnaean Trans- 
actions, Is supposed to be a female ; it measured ten inches in length, 
the depth beliind the head rather more than three quarters of an inch? 
and the breadth half an inch. The colour pale carmine, darkest 
above and towards die tail : the gill-plates and undulated transverse 
lines along the sides silvery, and the fins the same colour as the 
body, except the ventral, which are nearly white. That which vfC 
have figured (presumed to be the male) is eleven inches in length? 
not quite so deep, and rather of a darker colour. 
From the observations of Mr. Montagu, in the paper above- 
metioned, it is obvious he considers the Gepola rubescens to be alto- 
gether a different species from CepolaTasnia; while Ganelin, on the 
contrary, thinks the rubescens may be only a variety of the other 
kind.— 'We muft confess ourselves not entirely satisfied whether 
ought to be admitted as a distinct species, or a variety ; for it ap- 
pears to us that the precise characters of the two fishes are nof at pre- 
sent distinctly understood;— It certainly still remains a point on whic^ 
a difference of opinion may be maintained. 
