PLATE XCVIt. 
■Zeus Luna ; cauda sublunari, corpore rubentealbo-guttato. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. T. 1. 3. 1225. n. 7. 
Zeus Opah : cauda sublunari, copore nunc rubente, nunc viridi s ■ 
nunc purpureo, albo-guttato. Fivarium NaliiT*- 
— Sha-dO Nat. Miscel. v. 4. p. 140. 
Zeus GuxTAtus. Brunnich. 
Poisson de Lune. Duhamel des peches. 3. p. 74. t. IS. 
Chrysostose Lune. Lacepede, Sic. 
Opah. Phil. Trans, abr. l\. p. 879. t. 5. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3' 
n. 101. 
Opah or King-Fish. Turt. Linn. Syst. v. 1. p. 760. n. 3. 
Opah Dory. Shaw Gen. Zool. v. 4. p. 2. 287. 
Opah or King-filh. Sowerby, Brit. Miscel. p. 22. 
The Opah claims a distinguished place in the Iiistory of Brith'* 
fishes : it is admitted by writers as one of the most beautiful example* 
of the finny race hitherto discovered in the European seas, nor is 
less deserving our attention for its rarity than beauty. 
That this splendid fish has at various times been observed in , 
northern seas of L irope we have the authority of several naturalist* 
of respectability ; it is in particular dc.scribcd as a northern fish 
Strom in his History of Sondmor. According to Duhamel, Lacepe‘i®' 
and other French writers, it is likewise found, though rarely as 
to the southward as the coast of Normandy : its occasional appct>t'' 
ance in the British seas Is sufficiently well attested ; and if Dr. 
timer was not misled by the information obtained from the Prince o( 
Anamaboo, it is also a native of the seas of Africa, and in the 
fer more abundant than it appears to be elsewhere. 
