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Soknostoimis Icptosoma Tanaka, Anot. Zool. Japonenses, VII. i. 1908, p. 29. 

 Solenostomus paradoxus Jungersen, Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skriftcr, K0benhavn 



(7) VIII. 5, 1910, p. 328. 

 Solcnosto7nus paradoxus Franz, Japan. Knochenfische in: Doflein, Beilr. z. Natur- 



gesch. Ost-Asiens 1910, p. 22. 

 Solenostomus paradoxus Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische, 191 3, p. 105. 



D. V. 18— 22; A. 18— 23; P. 24— 26; V. 7. 



Height in total length 6 — 8 '/a; head in total length nearly 

 3 — 3^4- Eye 7 — S'/ji eye in snout (according to size of the 

 fish) about 4 — 7 times; least height of snout more or less than 

 6 times in its length. Caudal peduncle comparatively slender; 

 its height about equal to its length. The membrane of the 

 caudal fin beginning at a distance from the 2. dorsal and anal 

 of more than half the length of the base of these fins. In 

 young specimens about equal to that length. Posterior margin 

 of ventrals evenly convex in both sexes. The skin may be 

 provided with scattered, more or less visible dermal prolon- 

 gations, which villi are branched in some places. Light brownish 

 with irregular orange spots, the centrum of which may be 

 paler. Spinous dorsal with large black blotches on the mem- 

 brane between the first 3 spines. Other blotches on the fin 

 smaller. Caudal clouded with blackish. Length 165 mm. [Speci- 

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



Habitat: Ambon; Ceram. — Zanzibar, Mauritius, Maldives, 

 Gulf of Manaar, Japan. 



3. Solenostomus armatus M. Web. [Fig. 15, p. 29]. 



Solenostomus armatus Max Weber, SiV)oga-Expeditie, Fische, 1913, p. 103. 

 D. V. 23; A. 22; P. 24; V. 7. 



Height 8 in total length, 5'/,^ without caudal. Head 3Y3 in 

 total length, 2^/,^ without caudal. Eye 10, somewhat less than 

 twice in postorbital part of head. Eye 7 times in snout. Least 

 height of snout 9 times in its length. Dorsal contour of snout 

 obliquely running forwards from front to posterior third of snout, 

 further on getting more and more concave and finally strongly 

 rising to upper border of mouth ; before its posterior third on 

 both sides a tricuspidate prominence. From this spot diverge 

 the sharply serrated cristae supraorbitals, both bifurcate behind 

 posterior border of eye into a short median edge and into a 

 serrated lateral one running to the neck. Between the two 

 median edges a high occipital crest with 5 sharp spines extending 



