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CEPOLA. 
The bod 7 lengthened, compressed, of nearly uniform breadth until 
near the tail. Head alopins rapidly; angle of the jaw depressed; vent 
not far trom the throat. Dorsal and anal fins long, running close to 
'he tail, which is continued in the same line with the body. Ventral 
hns thoracic. 
RED BANDFISII. 
RED SNAKEFISH. RED RtBBAMDFISH. 
This species appears to have been known to the older writers 
on Natural History; but the figures they give of Serpens 
ruhescens and Teenia cannot be regarded as representing this 
fish. If also our Red Bandfish be the Ccpola Teenia of Bloch, 
the figure of this author is a poor representation of it. 
Cepola ruhescens, 
Tukton ; Llnnmus. CuviER. 
Donovan; pi. 105. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 204. 
Jenyss; Manual, p. 374. 
Y ARKELi, ; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 224. 
Gunther; Cat. Br. Museum, vol. iii, p. 486. 
This fish was first made known as British by Colonel Montagu, 
at the beginning of the present century, from two specimens 
which he had obtained on the south coast of Devonshire; but 
since his day, no doubt from an increase of observers, it has 
been found far from rare, and examples have come to hand on 
almost every part of the shores of the British Islands, even to 
the extreme north of Scotland. Mr. Thompson records specimens 
from different parts of Ireland. It has been taken near Ayr, 
jind Mr. Peach has seen it near Wick: but still it is more 
