316 FISHES FROM BRAZIL JORDAN. 



SYNGNATHID^. 



19. Siphostoma crinitum (Jenyns). 



Three specimens. Dorsal about 20 ; dorsal rings 1 + 4 to 1 + 5. Body 

 rings, 17 + 34 to 36. Lateral line passing into lower part of tail. The 

 three specimens are differently colored ; one female is black, darkest 

 below, with ten cross-bands of white, each with dark before it. Another 

 female is gray, belly black ; ten pairs of black cross-bars with whitish 

 between them. Lateral line, opercle, and a bar across the eye, black. 

 The male is wholly different, dark brown, with twenty-two cross-bars 

 sharply defined but unequal ; additional white spots on bellj^ roundish 

 white spots and other irregularities breaking up some of the bands. 

 Snout mostly white, top of head mesially dark; dark on opercle and 

 below eye; white marks around the dark on top of head. Snout very 

 short, turned up, shor t er than postorbital. Top of head and supercilium 

 crested, more so in the female. A median ridge on top of snout, more 

 distinct and serrate in the female, entire in the male. Edge of plates 

 more distinct than in the female. A ridge the whole length of opercle 

 in both sexes. Female with slender Mack filament over the eye. Head, 

 3 in trunk ; trunk, 2 in tail. Siphostoma crinigeruni of Bean is closely 

 allied, but the snout notably longer and slenderer; caudal louger. 

 Siphostoma zatropis is also similar, but its caudal rings are much fewer. 

 The name Siphostoma albirostre (Kaup) should probably supersede 

 zatropis. Corythroichthys vittatus of Kaup is probably the male of 

 Siphostoma crinitum. 



FISTULARIID^. 

 20. Fistularia tabaccaria (L.)- 



One specimen. Body above with numerous round bluish spots. This 

 is Aulostoma marcgravei of Casteluau. 



MUGILID^. 

 21. Mugil gaimardianus (Desmarest). 



Scales, 36. Soft dorsal black on its lobe ; no black at base of pec- 

 toral ; caudal edged with dark ; teeth very small ; distance from top of 

 pectoral to dorsal one-third length of pectoral, not one-sixth as in 

 Cuban examples, which we refer to the same species. 



22. Querimana curvidens (Cuv. & Val.). 



Eleven specimens, the largest 2^ inches. Blue, paler below ; axil 

 dusky. Lips larger than in Miigil. Ciliiform teeth quite large, those 

 in lower jaw turned downwards and outwards all around the jaws, 

 those in upper jaw larger, normally placed. Head 3| ; depth 3f . Anal 

 II, 9, scaly. Scales 36. Pectoral short, not reaching dorsal. 



