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yellowish, with light crossbars between the anal and dorsal. 

 Often with a black spot near upper and lower margin of 

 caudal, on base of ventrals, on middle of maxillaries and before 

 eyes. Length 480 mm. 



Habitat: Batu Islands; Sula Islands!; Banda!; Ambon!; 

 Ternate; Ceram; Buru; Waigeu; New Guinea (Doreh). Mossam- 

 bique, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Bourbon, Seychelles, Japan (Riu 

 Kiu Islands), South China, near Sydney [Me Culloch], Lord 

 Howe Island, Knob Island, Sandwich-, Society-, Paumotu 

 Islands, Samoa, Honolulu. 



A marine shore fish. 



2. Subfam. Fistulariinae. 



Body greatly elongate, much depressed, broader than deep. 

 Skin totally naked, or covered with minute, conical, hooked 

 spinelets, which persist or disappear with age; besides there 

 may be a median, longitudinal single row of narrow keeled 

 scales on back and ventral surface. Lateral line in the anterior 

 part of the trunk curved towards the median line of the back 

 in tube-shaped ossifications. Furtheron it bends downwards, 

 running along the middle of the side. Here the tubes gradually 

 take the form of narrow long bony shields with a more or 



Fig. 4. Fistularia pctimba Lacep. X Vs* 



less prominent keel or spine. The lateral line is continued on 

 the caudal filament and again enclosed in tubes. Supraoccipital 

 small between frontals and epiotics, which meet in the median 

 line ; behind them the mesially broadly united exoccipitals, 

 which border the occipital foramen. The long, tubiform snout 

 hexangular in transverse section. Intermaxillaries, mandibularies 

 and pterygoids with a row of minute teeth, pterygoids eden- 

 tulous. No symphysial barbel. No spinous dorsal. Soft dorsal 

 short, posterior, with 16 18 rays, the 3 anterior of which are 

 extremely short; anal opposite and similar, with 15 17 rays, 

 the 2 anterior very short. It is situated far behind anus, which 



