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hump, carrying llu' second dorsal and the anal; the posterior part carrying the 

 caudal fin lower. The soft skin, covering the dermal ossifications, with scattered 

 small (more or less developed, in some places branched) cutaneous papillæ. 



Anterior dorsal with 5 spines, short but high, at posterior border of thorax, 

 opposite to ventrals; the latter very large, with one spine and 6 bifurcated soft 

 rays; free in male, united to abdomen in the female, forming a brood-sac. Second 

 dorsal and anal opposite, long and rather low, composed of numerous soft, un- 

 branched rays, like those of the pectorals. Caudal fin extremely large, with strong, 

 unbranched rays, the middle ones longer and somewhat more slender than 

 the rest. 



Glossohyal and basibranchials absent, epibranchials absent or quite rudiment- 

 ary; pharyngobranchials apparently one — but composed of two — on each side, 

 provided with teeth like the lower pharyngeals. 



Di. 5, V. 7, C. 16. 



Solenostomus cyanopterus Bleeker 1859. 



Syn: S. paradoxum Blk. 18.')2, 1853. 



S. paradoxus Kaup 1856, pro parte. 

 S. cyanopterus Dumeril 1870. 

 S. ßleekeri „ „ 



Snout rather stout, its height in the middle of its length being in the male 

 about '/:i of its length (from anterior margin of the eye to the end of the snout), 

 in the female about '/4. Caudal peduncle stout, the membrane of the caudal fin 

 beginning very near or almost close to the second dorsal and anal (closest 

 in the male). Profile of second dorsal and anal evenly arched. Colour brown, 

 minutely dotted with black and whitish, or pink with small purplish-brown 

 spots. Eye red. First dorsal fin with two large, ovate, black ocelli between the first 

 3 rays. 



P. 24— 27, D. 5/18— 20, 4.16-20, C. 16, V. 7. 



Solenostomus paradoxus (Pallas). 



Syn: Solenostomus varius rostro serrato etc. Seba 1758. 

 Fistularia paradoxa Pallas 1770. 

 Solenostomus paradoxus Lacép. 180;i. 

 Solenostomus „ pro parte Kaup 1806. 



Solenostomus paradoxus Dumeril 1870. 

 Solenostoma brachyurum Bleeker 1855. 

 Solenostoma leptosoma Tanaka I'JOS. 



Snout elongated, its height (apparently in both sexes) in the middle being 

 about '7 of its length (from anterior margin of eye). Caudal peduncle slender, the 

 membrane of the caudal fin beginning at a distance from the second dorsal and 

 anal of more than half the length of these fins (about - a in the female, '/i; in the 



