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within the dark stripes that unite anteriorly and pass through the eye as one 

 stripe. The snout has light spots laterally, some of which are elongate and 

 oblique; and the broad maxillary has a black longitudinal stripe. 



The body is elongate, compressed, and decidedly more robust than in 

 Fistularia. Prolonged snout heavier and proportionately shorter, 1.47 in head; a 

 small slender barbel, not quite as long as eye, at chin; D. X-24, spines separate; 

 A. 26; P. 14; V. 6; caudal somewhat pointed, without filament; scales small, 

 strongly ctenoid, in about 215 oblique series above lateral line. 



Caribbean Sea to southern Florida. S. F. H. 



Family FISTULARIDAE. Cornet Fishes 



Fistularia tabacaria Linnaeus 



Young fish of this species were occasionally taken at Tortugas. 



The largest one available is 388 mm. in length; 266 mm. to base of caudal; 

 caudal filament 112 mm.; greatest depth 8.0 mm.; greatest breadth 14 mm.; head 

 102 mm.; eye 11 mm.; interorbital width 4.0 mm.; postorbital length of head 

 22 mm. D. 18; A. 17; anterior rays in each very short, probably not all included 

 in published record, which gives D. 14; A. 13. Lateral-line pores 100, the line 

 protected by as many ossicles, of which the last 40 project visibly as so many 

 scutes; posterior third of body with "minute asperities," with projecting spinules. 



A single specimen, perhaps 200 mm. long, filament included, floating above a 

 sparse growth of Thalassia, was greenish, crossed by a number of light lines. In 

 larger ones the body, including snout, was crossed by brownish olive bands; a 

 median, a dorsolateral, and a ventrolateral bluish line with lighter spots present; 

 each darker bar, between the spots of blue, with longitudinal dashes darker than 

 the ground color. W. H. L. 



A specimen of cornet fish was recorded from Tortugas by Jordan and Thomp- 

 son (Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 24, 1904 (1905), p. 235) as Fistularia serrata 

 Cuvier. That a second species of cornet fish actually exists at Tortugas cannot 

 now be confirmed. 



Caribbean Sea to Florida and sometimes northward. S. F. H. 



Family MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE. Snipefishes 



Macrorhamphosus scolopax (Linnaeus) 



Three specimens 100 to 120 mm. in length were taken in one haul with the 

 otter trawl between no and 150 fathoms. These fish were re.d when fresh. 



The foregoing note is all I can find on this species among Dr. Longley's data. 

 The specimens do not seem to be included in the collection. 



Fowler (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, 1934, p. 353, with figs. 1, 2 

 on p. 355) has shown that a specimen taken oft* Cape May, New Jersey, dif- 

 fered from European ones in having a notably deeper body (depth about 3.66 

 in the American specimen, 4.5 to 6 in European ones), and in the more advanced 



