2; 



D. V. l8 — 20; A. l6 — 20; P. 24 — 2/; V. /. 



Height in total length nearly 6 — 8 ; head in total length 3 

 to about 3'/3. Eye 11, 3 — 3^/3 in postorbital part of head. Eye 

 in snout (according to size of the fish) 6'/^ — S'/g. Least height 

 of snout, which is higher in the male than in the female, 

 about 4'/2 times in its length (3 times in the male, 4 times 

 in the female, Jungersen) to 5'/., times (Sauvage). Caudal 

 peduncle stout, rather higher than long. The membrane of 

 the caudal beginning very near or almost close to the second 

 dorsal and anal, closest in the male. Posterior margin of ven- 

 trals evenly convex in both sexes. Skin with more or less 

 conspicuous scattered dermal appendages, more so in the male; 

 these villi, which may be branched, also along inferior border 

 of snout; they form a barbel at the mandibular symphysis. 

 Colour brown or pink, dotted with small black and whitish 

 spots. Spinous dorsal with two long black ocelli on membrane 

 between first and third spine. Upper part of fin with black 

 dots, larger and more elongate or drawn out into rather broad 

 lines on caudal. Eye red. Length 152 mm. [Specimens of 

 Bleeker's collection in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Ceram (Wahai) ; Ambon; New Guinea. — Red 

 Sea, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mauritius, Cargados Carajos, Siam, 

 Japan, China. 



2. Solenostomus paradoxus (Pall.). [Fig. 14, p. 29]. 



Fistulai'ia paradoxa Pallas. Spicil. Zool. VIII. 1870, p. 32. 

 Fistnlaria paradoxa Bloch, Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 114. 

 Solenostomus paradoxus I,acepede, Hist. nat. Poiss. V. 1803, p. 361. 

 Solenostoma paradoxum Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VI. 1854, p. 506 



(nee Solenostoma paradoxum Blkr. 1852 and 1853). 

 Solenostoma brachyurus Bleeker, Ibid. VIII. 1855, p. 433. 

 Solenostomus paradoxus Kaup, Cat. Lophobranch. Fish London 1856, p. 2 



(pro parte). 

 Solenichthys brachyurus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 1865, p. 273. 

 Solenichthys paradoxus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 274. 



Solenostoma paradoxum Q\m\.\\^x^ Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 152. 

 Solenostoma hrachyurum Giiother, 1. c. 



Solenostomus paradoxus A. Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poiss. II. 1870, p. 497. 

 Solenostomus brachyurus A. Dumeril, Ibid. p. 498. 

 Solenostoma tichthys paradoxus Bleeker, Enumeration Poiss. de Madagascar in: 



Recherch. s. 1. Faune de Madagascar, Leide, 1875, p. 76. — Verb. Akad. 



Amsterdam XVIII. 1877 — 1878, Poiss. d. Maurice p. 17. 

 Solenostomus paradoxus Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIV. 1901, p. 4. 

 Solenostoma paradoxum Johnstone, Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries, II. 1904, p. 204. 



