Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North Jlmerica. 191 



But in the " Histoire Naturelle des Poissons," of Cuv. et Val., it does not 

 appear in that family. That work is not yet sufficiently advanced for us to 

 learn where Valenciennes will place it ; but as it has been considered by some 

 ichthyologists a subfamily of the Scombrids, I follow the arrangement of 

 Dekay, although he observes, " Its true place is probably near or among the 

 Syngnatbichc." 



GENUS I. FISTULARIA, Lacep. 

 Body elongated, cylindrical. Dorsal opposite to the anal. The intermax- 

 illaries and the lower jaw are armed with small teeth. From between the two 

 lobes of the caudal proceeds a filament which is sometimes as long as the body. 

 The tube of the snout is very long and depressed. The natatory bladder ex- 

 cessively small, and the scales are invisible. 



1. Fistularia serrata, Bloch. 



Upper part of the body of a reddish -brown color ; a narrow bluish band upon the sides, 

 through the centre of which runs the lateral line ; back of the dorsal, this line is quite 

 strongly serrated. Tube hard, horny, and strongly serrated laterally. Caudal deeply 

 forked, with a filament between them, strong at its origin, very delicate at its termination. 



D. 14. P. 16. V. 6. A. 14. C. 10. Length, including filament, 27 inches. 



Jamaica, Catesby. Massachusetts, Stoker. 



Petimbuabo Brazil, Tobacco-pipe Fish, Catesbt's Hist. Carol , n, p i; 

 Fistularia serrata (>), Bloch, variety of tabacaria. 



" Shaw's Gen. Zoiil,, v. pi. 107, fig. of tube. 

 Tobacco-pipe Fish, Stoker's Report, 0. 

 American Pipe-fish, Dekay's Report, p. 232, pi. 35. fig. 113. 



2. Fistularia tabacaria, Bloch. 



Brownish, with a row of pale spots. Belly white in the middle, and semidiaphanous on 

 the right and left. Orbits of the eye with angular processes or spinas. 

 D. 16. P. 16. V. 6. A. 16. C. 16§. Length, 14 inches. 

 New York, Mitchill,. 



Fistularia tabacaria, Block, 387. 



" Lin., Syst, Nat., p. 515. 



" Slender Fistularia, Shaw's Gen. Zool., v. p. 9G, pi. 107 

 Fistularia Noveboracensis, New Vork Trumpet-fish, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Sec of N Y i n 437 

 pi. 3, fig. 8. ' ' ' 



Fistularia tabacaria, Spotted Pipe-fish, Dekay's Report, p. 233. 



