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1103. AULORHTNCHUS FLAVIDUS, Gill. 



Head 4; depth 16. 1). XXV-9; A. 1,9; Y. I, 4. Gill rakers slender. Dorsal 

 spiues minute, much shorter tlian pupil. Caudal peduncle longer than 

 head. Tawny, with about 20 darker cross blotches on the back ; minutely 

 punctulate above; opercula and antepectoral region with bright golden 

 or coppery luster, bordered above by a blackish band. Coast of Cali- 

 fornia from San Nicolas Island and Monterey northward to Sitka, Alaska; 

 rather rare ; a curious little fish, like a stickleback in structure, but with 

 the produced snout of Fisiularia. (flavidus. yellowish.) 



Aulorh/nclms Jlavidm, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci.Phila., ISfil, 109, Coast of Washington. (Coll. 



Dr. Kennerly); Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., v, 153, 187G; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 



391, l!<83. 

 Av.lisco2)S spinesceus, Peters, Berliner Monatsber., 57(i, 186G. 



Family C. AULOSTOMID.K. 



(The Trumpet-fishes.) 



Body compressed, elongate, covered with small ctenoid scales. Lateral 

 line continuous. Head long; mouth small, at the end of a long, com- 

 pressed tube. Lower jaw prominent, with a barbel at the symphysis. 

 Premaxillary feeble, not protractile; maxillary broad, triangular, with a 

 supplemental bone. Teeth minute, in bands, on lower jaw and vomer. 

 Branchiostegals 4. Gills 4, a slit behind the fourth. Pseudobranchiie 

 well developed. Gill rakers obsolete. Gill membranes separate, free from 

 the isthmus. Air bladder large. Spinous dorsal present, of 8-12 very 

 slender free spines; soft dorsal and anal rather long, similar, posterior, 

 with 23 to 28 rays each; caudal small, rhom1)ic, the middle rays longest, 

 but not produced into a filament; ventrals abdominal, of 6 rays, all artic- 

 ulated ; pectorals broad, rounded, the space in front of them scaly. First 

 four vertebrje elongated. Two pyloric cceca. A single genus, with two 

 species, found in tropical seas. (Fistulariidw, part, genus Aulostoma, Giin- 

 ther. Cat., iii, 535-538, 1861.) 



341. AULOSTOMUS, Lac^pede. 



Avlnntomvf, Lac£pede, Hist. Nat Poiss., v, 357, 1803, {chiiicnsis). 

 AnhiMiimii, SciiLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, 320, 1842; change of spelling. 

 Pohjptenclitliiis, Bleeker, Ternate 11, G08, (ralenthii — chiuetixh). 

 Sok'HoKtoiiiKs, Gronow, Cat. Fishes, Eil. Gray, 146, 1854, (c/iinens/s). 



Characters of the genus included above. {avTioc, tube; aTo^a, mouth.) 



a. Base of soft dorsal and anal not black; each fin with a black band parallel with its base. 



6. Eye 2 to 2 V$ in postorbital part of head; ground color reddish; silvery lateral streaks 



not all below lateral line. maculatus, 1104. 



tfc. Eye 3}^ in postorbital part of head; ground color brown; lateral silvery streaks all 



below the lateral line. cinerevs, 1105. 



1104. AULOSTOMUS MACIJLATITS, Valenciennes. 



(Trompetero.) 



Head 3; eye 2 to 2i in postorbital part of head. D. X-23; A. 25; 

 V. 6. Lower jaw prominent, keeled, with a small barbel at the symphysis ; 



