FI STUL ART A. FI STUL ARI A. 



Generic Character. 



Rostrum cylindricnm, apice 



maxillosum. 

 Corpus el o n gat u m . 

 Membr : branch : radiis 



.septem. 



Snout cylindric : mouth ter- 

 minal. 



Body lengthened. 

 Gill-membrane seven-rayed, 



SLENDER FISTULARIA. 



Fistularia Tabacaria. F. cauda bifida setifera. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



p. 515. 

 Fistularia with bifid tail, furnished with a long^bristle-shaped 



process. 



Petimbuaba. Marcgr. Bras. p. 148. Piso. Raj. ^c. 

 The Tobacco-Pipe Fish. Will, ichth. p. 233. 

 Fistularia Tabacaria. Block, t. 387. 



JL HIS highly singular fish seems to have been, 

 first described by Marcgrave in his Natural History 

 of Brasil, under the name of Petimbuaba. He in- 

 forms us that it grows to the length of three or four 

 feet, and is of. a shape resembling that of an Eel, 

 with the mouth toothless and pointed, and the 

 upper lip longer than the lower; the head about 

 nine inches long, from the eyes to the tip of the 

 mouth ; the eyes are large and ovate, with a bright- 

 ^blue pupil and silvery iris, marked on the fore and 

 hind part by a red spot; the skin smooth, like that 



