14 



Banda!; Aru Islands!. — From Aden, the East coast of Africa 

 and Madagascar through the Indie to South-China, Japan and 

 the Hawaiian and other Pacific Islands. 



2. Fistularia petimba Lacep. [Fig. 4, p. 11 ]. 



FisUilaria pei'nnha Lacepedc, I list. nat. Poiss. V. 1 803, p. 349 (s. syn.). 

 Fistularia serrata Giinther, Cat. Biit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 533 (p. p.). 

 Fistularia serrata Klunzinger, Abh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien XXI. 187 1, p. 515. 

 Fistularia deprcssa Giinther, Challenger Reports, VI. Shore Fishes 1880, p. 69. — 



Fische d. Siidsee II. 1881, p. 221. 

 Fistularia depressa Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North & Middle America I. 



1896, p. 757. 

 Fistularia depressa Scale, Occas. Papers Bishop Mus. I. 1901, p. 64. 

 Fistularia depressa Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. Kat. Mus. XXVI. 1902, p. 66. 

 Fistularia petimba Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXII. (1902) 1904, p. 437. 

 Fistularia petimba Snyder, ibid. p. 523. 

 Fistularia petimba Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 116. 

 Fistularia petimba Scale, Occas. Papers Bishop Mus. IV. 1906, p. 17. 

 Fistularia petimba Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wien CXV. 1906, p. 1419. 

 Fistularia petimba Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XLII. 1912, p. 408. 

 Fistularia depressa Max Weber, Siboga-Exped. Fische, 1913, p. loi. 

 Fistularia petimba Max W^eber & de Beaufort, Zool. Mededeelingen Museum 



Leiden VI. 1921 p. 64. 



D. 14—17; A. 14—16; P. 1.14; V. 6. 



Skin naked, everywhere smooth to touch. Height in length 

 (without caudal filament) to 40 ; about 2 — 2'/^ times in width 

 of body. Head somewhat more or less than 2-/3 times in length 

 (without caudal filament). Horizontal diameter of eye more 

 than 8 to 15 times in head, about 7 — 8 times in length of 

 snout and twice to thrice longer than interorbital space, which 

 is nearly flat. Lateral edge of snout (formed by praefrontal 

 and upper margin of metapterygoid) serrated. The 2 median 

 ridges on upper surface of snout well separated, diverging on 

 anterior half, converging finally on foremost part of it. Ridges 

 and serrations on posterior part of head weak. Height of dorsal 

 and anal about twice the horizontal diameter of the eye. 

 Brown above, lighter or white below. In life with a pair of 

 anteriorly and posteriorly interrupted blue stripes, beginning 

 at the nape and running on tail above and parallel to lateral 

 line. Length to about 1500 mm. 



Habitat: Pulu Weh ! ; Nias ! ; Borneo!; Celebes (Makassar! 

 Menado !) ; Sula Islands !; Ambon ! ; Ceram ! ; Gisser ! 5 Obi Major ! ; 

 Waigeu!; North New Guinea (Joutefa Bay!). — From the East 



