STYLEPHORUS. STYLEPHORUS. 



Generic Character. 



Oculi pedunculati, seu cy- 



lindro crasso brevi im- 



positi. 

 Rostrum productum, sur- 



sum spectans, versus ca- 



put membrana interjecta 



retractile. 



Os terminate, edentulum? 

 Branchiae trium parium sub 



jugulo sitae. 

 Pinna pectorales parvae : 



dorsalis longitudine dorsi: 



caudalis brevis, radiato- 



spinosa. 

 Corpus longissimuna, c.om- 



pressum. 



Eyes pedunculated : stand- 

 ing on a short thick cy- 

 linder. 



Snout lengthened, directed 

 upwards, retractile to- 

 wards the head by means 

 of a membrane. 



Mouth without teeth? 



Branchite three pair beneath 

 the throat. 



Fins pectoral small: dorsal 

 the length of the back: 

 caudal short, with spiny 

 rays. 



Body very long, compressed. 



JL H I S highly singular genus was first described 

 in the year 1788, from a specimen then introduced 

 into the Leverian Museum, and figured in the first 

 volume of the Linnsean Transactions. I shall there- 

 fore repeat my former description from the above- 

 mentioned work, and have only to add, that the 

 genus still consists of a single species, no other 

 having been yet discovered. 



