1. FISTULAKIA. 533 



leaving a free lauceolate space between them, and are again a little 

 widened anteriorly, where they join the humerus and urohyal. 



The anterior portion of the vertehral column shows the same pecu- 

 liarity as in DactyJopterus : it is a long compressed tube, e%ddently 

 composed .of four elongate vertebrae, which are not joined, biit 

 perfectly anchylosed ; each of them has a pair of small foramina 

 for blood-vessels. The neural spines and parapophyses of this tubi- 

 form portion are confluent into tliin laminae, the lateral of which 

 are wing-like, expanded in their anterior half. There are, besides, 

 forty-nine abdominal and thirty-three caudal vertebrae ; each ver- 

 tebra has five deep impressions, and those of the abdominal portion 

 and a part of the caudal have long parapophyses. The neiu'al spines 

 are short, the interneurals long, horizontally situated, so that they 

 form together one continuous bony strip ; the haemals are much di- 

 vergent at the base, leaving space for a wide channel. Eibs none. 



inches, lilies. 

 Length of the tubiform portion of the vertebral column 4 4 



of the abdominal portion 9 8 



of the caudal portion 5 6 



Total length 19 6 



2. Fistularia serrata. 



Piko Fish Conger, Dumpier, Voy. New Holl. in Coll. Voy. iii. pi. facing 



p. 184. 

 Fistularia tabaccaria, White, Voy. Bat. Bay, p. 296. fig. 2. 



tabaccaria, var., Bl. viii. p. 130. taf. 387. figs. 2,3; Bl. Schn. p. 114. 



Russell, ii. p. 58. pi. 173. 



Fistularia inimaculata, Cur. Regne Anim. ; Richards. Ichth. Chin.i^. 247; 



Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 320 ; Bleek. Amb. <^- Cer. p. 281, and Verhand. 



Acad. Wetensch. Amsterd. i., Japan, p. 11. 



serrata, Cur. Reyne Anim. (after Blo«/i). 



commersonii, Rilpp. iV. IF. Fische, p. 142 ; Peters in Wiegm. Arch. 



1855, p. 258. 

 CannorhjTichus immaculatus, Cant. Catal. p. 211. 

 Skeleton : Rosenth. Ichthyot. Taf. ix. figs. 8-12 (Fistularia tabacaria). 



B. 7. D. 13-15. A. 14-15. Y. 6. C. 2-|-6 | 2 | 0-f2. 

 Vert. 47/34 {Rilpp.), 47/29 (Bosenth.). 



The outer edge of the tube is very distinctly serrated. Brownish- 

 grey, silvery beneath ; sometimes some bluish spots on the back or 

 on the sides. 



From the coast of Mozambique to the Seas of China and New 

 HoUand. — The head of this species is very distinctly figui-ed by Bloch, 

 and on this figure Cuvier has founded the species F. serrata. 



a. Half-grown : bad state. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



b. Half-grown. Bengal. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



c. Half-grown. Singapore. 



d. Half-gTown: stuffed. SeaofPinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 e-f. Half-grown and young. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



