12 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. you. 62. 
Color in alcohol nearly dark bone-brown, with largely uniform 
appearance. Under a lens minute crowded paler dots, very nu- 
merous. Lower surface of head, tail and trunk cinnamon-buff. Many 
narrow bone-brown bands radiate from 
eye. Cebu. Length about 140 mm. 
Family FISTULARHDAH. 
FISTULARIA PETIMBA Lacépéde. 
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Two from Takao. Compared with 
Hawaiian and Philippine examples in 
the Academy, they agree in most every 
particular. The body is broadly de- 
pressed in comparison with /. serrata, 
the snout much shorter and less serrate 
and the posterior sides of the body are 
smooth. In the younger example the 
body has a_ velvet-like appearance. 
Length to tips of outermost caudal 
rays, 128 to 308 mm. 
gino ft 6 stein FISTULARIA SERRATA Cuvier. 
Head, 24; D. 16; A. 16; snout, 14 in 
head; eye, 14 in postorbital; interor- 
bital, 13. Body moderately depressed. 
Denticles along lateral rostral edges 
moderate, though extend about hind 
two-thirds of snout. Lateral line 
armed with a row of denticles, quite 
conspicuous along side of tail. Keels 
on upper surface of snout as in pre- 
ceding species, except their distension 
less anterior. According to Gunther’s figure,® their distension would 
occur medially. One from Takao, 335 mm. long. 
Family CENTRISCIDAE. 
CENTRISCUS STRIGATUS (Bleeker). 
Head, 22 to origin of soft dorsal fin; depth, 54; D. IV, 10; A. 12; 
snout, 14 in head; eye, 12 in postorbital; interorbital, 2. Body ex- 
tremely compressed, thin, and narrowly convex above, constricted 
below as broad thin trenchant edge. Head and body cuirassed with 
finely striate bony plates. Snout formed as compressed bony beak, 
but moderately recurved. Space between front eye edge and hind 
edge of gill-opening slightly less than space between gill-opening 
and pectoral origin. Pectoral extended downward seven-eighths to 
Fic. 2.— HIPPOCAMPUS LONGIRO- 
STRIS CUVIER. 
5 Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, 1880, pl. 32, fig. C. 
