i*8 XONGER PIPE. Class IV. 



XI. Nofe long and tubular. 

 PIPE 



" No orifice to the gills : 



The breathing aperture on the hind part of the head. 



No ventral fins. 



The body covered with a ftrong cruft. 



60. Longer. Acqs Arifiotdis cauda fer- gulo, pinna cauda? carens ? 



pentina. Sib. Scot. 24. Tab. Artcd. Spec, 3. 



19. Syngnathus barbarus. S. pin- 



Typhle altera. Ge/ker fife. nis caudse anique nullis, 



1025. corpore fexangulato ? Lin. 



Syngnathus cotpore quadran- fyji. 417. 



THIS fpecies, defcribed by Sir Robert Sib- 

 bald, was two feet in length ; that we ex- 

 amined only Oxteen inches. 



The nofe was an inch long, comprefTed tideways, 

 and the end of the lower mandible turned up : the 

 aperture of the mouth was very fmall. 



The irides were red; behind each eye was a deep 

 brown line. 



The body, in the thickeft part, was about equaj 

 to a fwan's quil, hexangular from the end of the 

 dorfal fin - 9 from thence to the tail quadrangular. 

 The belly was (lightly carinated, and marked along 

 she middle with a dufky line. Under the tail com- 

 mencing at the anus is a fulcus or groove, fix 



inches 



