PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
2. SOLENOSTOMUS CYANOPTERUS (Bleeker). 
(Plate 111.) 
Solenustomus paradoxus Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., Ill, p. 308, Hawaii, 
Ceram. — Kaup, Lophobranchiates, 1856, p. 2, He of France, India, New 
Guinea (not of Pallas). 
Soloiodonia ci/anopterum Bleeker, Nat. Hist. Ned. Ind., VI, p. 506, Hawaii, 
Ceram. — Gunther, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 137, pi. xx, flgs. 2, 3, Zanzibar; 
Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 151, Zanzibar, Ceram, China. — Dumeril, Hist. Poiss., 
II, 1870, p. 497, New Guinea. 
Head 2i in length; depth 5. D. V.-20; P. 27; V. 7; A. It); C. 15. 
Depth of snout at middle 4i in its lenjjfth. Eye 6i in snout; dorsal 
spines 2 in head; ventral equal to snout or a little more; caudal a little 
shorter than head. Caudal peduncle shorter than base of second dor- 
sal. Color pink, with small black dots like ink specks, scattered over 
head and upper part of body; eye red; iins pale, the spinous dorsal 
with two long black ocelli (said to be dark l)lue in life) on membranes 
of first and second spines, besides black dots, caudal with small inky 
spots like those on body, but more elongate, several of them drawn 
out into lines. 
Japan to Zanzibar, occasionally northward in the Kuro Shiwo, 
doubtfully recorded from Hawaii. Known in Japan from a single 
adult female, taken at Boshu (Awa) by Dr. Kishinouye, and by him 
presented to Stanford lTnivprsit3\ 
{Kvdveog^ blue; Trr^poi^ tin.) 
3. SOLENOSTOMUS PARADOXUS (Pallas). 
(Plate IV.) 
Fiahdaria paradoxa Pallas, Spicilegia, VIII, p. 32, i>l. iv, fig. 6, Amboyna. — 
Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1807, p. 114, pi. xxx, tig. 1 (copied). 
Solenostomus paradoxus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 36, copied. — 
Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 203, Canton, after Chinese drawings. — 
DuMERiL, Hist. Poiss., II, 1870, p. 497, Mauritius. 
Solenostoma 2)aradoxa GvjfTHER, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 152, Amboyna. 
Head 2f in length; depth 5i. D. V.-21; P. 24; V. 7; A. 22. Depth 
of snout at its middle 6i in length. Eye 7 in snout; dorsal spines 
1| in head; ventrals a little longer than snout; caudal a little longer 
than head; caudal peduncle a little more than 2 in base of second 
dorsal. 
Color light brown, with irregular oblong spots of orange brown, 
each with a paler center, one series of these forming an irregular 
stripe from eye to caudal; some darker blotches on snout and on ven- 
trals: two dark blotches with pale center between the dorsal fins; an 
oblong blackish blotch on each membrane of spinous dorsal, the first 
two most distinct, besides numerous other blotches; soft dorsal and 
anal mottled; caudal clouded with blackish. 
