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side of head al>ove eyes; interorbital space deeply concave; a promi- 
nent median crest of 3 lobes; opercle with a keel and a covered ridoe 
above it; ridges of body strongly developed; neither the dorsal nor 
the lateral keels of bod}^ connected with dorsal keels of tail. 
Dorsal inserted just posterior to anal opening; caudal contained 3 
times in head. 
Color light gray, with numerous dili'use dark cross l)ands, arranged 
in pairs, a black dot at edge of each plate on dorsal keel; sides of head 
with three black longitudinal streaks, the lowest below eye; throat 
below with a black median streak, behind which are three black cross 
bars, these bars wanting in one specimen. Described from the type, 
No. 6519, Leland Stanford Junior Universitj^ collection, taken at 
Yaeyama, Ishigaki Island, Riukiu group, by Capt. Alan Owston. 
Other examples from the same locality measure as follows: Head 21 
to 2f in trunk; head and trunk 1| to li in tail; rings 16+3*ito 30; D. 
27 to 29. Length 110 to 150 millimeters. 
{IshigaM^ stone-fence in Japanese.) 
B. YOZIA Jordan and Snyder, new genus. 
Yozia .Jordan and vSnyder, new »enus {vKikanoune). 
This genus is closely allied to Tracliyrliam^^lvus^ with which it agrees 
in the elevated ])ase of the dorsal fin. The snout is, however, essentially 
as in SyngnatJnix^ elongate and without serrations above. 
{Yoji-mvo, or toothpick fish, the Japanese name for all pipe-fishes.) 
6. YOZIA WAKANOURiE Jordan and Snyder, new species. 
(Plate VI.) 
fSiingnafhiis conrctatus Bleekkk, Fischf. Amboyna, 1857, p. 99, Amboyna. — 
DuMERiL, Hist. Poiss, II, 1870, p. 569, Amboyna. 
? SyncjnathiiH zanzlhareims GtixTiiER, Fishes Zanzibar, 186G, p. 140, ])1. xx, fio;. 5, 
Zanzibar; Coll. Lieut. Playfair; Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. KW, Zanzibar, 
China. 
Head 2| in trunk; head and trunk If in tail; rings 24+59. D. 27; 
P. 16; C. 5. Snout more than half head, equal to distance from front 
of eye to posterior edge of front ring, which is very near tip of 
pectoral. Eye 1 in snout, 2 in postorbital space. Snout slender, its 
upper edge smooth. Interorbital space rather broad, concave; occiput 
and nape with a low, roughish median ridge, or keel, posteriorly; a low 
keel above opercle; trunk rather deeper than broad, slightly swollen 
at the middle under the elevated base of dorsal fin; depth of bod}^ 1^ 
in head, 17 in total length. No spines. Vent below middle of dorsal, 
which stands on six rings. 
Color ver}^ dark brown, with lighter and darker marblings. 
One female specimen, 265 millimeters long, taken by Jordan and 
Snyder at Wakanoura. (Type, No. 6517, Leland Stanford Junior 
University Museum.) We describe it as new with some doubt, as the 
East Indian forms coaretain and ZiiiizUKtriii^h are very close to it. 
