12 



is close to ventrals. Caudal incised, the 2 middle rays pro- 

 duced into a filament. Supracleithrum (supraclavicle) present. 

 Five branchiostegals. 



i. Fistularia Linne. 



(LiNNE, Systema naturae edit. Xa, 1758, p. 312). 

 Cannorhynchus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1193. 



For characters of the genus see those of the subfamily. 

 Shore fishes of tropical seas. 



Key to the indo-australian species of Fistularia. 



Rough with spinelets ; a single median row of narrow keeled 

 scales before and behind the dorsal and the anal. Interorbital 

 space deeply concave. Two middle ridges on upper surface 

 of snout close together and parallel on anterior half of its length. F. villosa p. 12. 



Naked; no median scales. Interorbital space nearly flat. 

 Two middle ridges on upper surface of snout well separated, 

 diverging on anterior part of snout, converging finally on its 

 foremost part F. petimba p. 14. 



Remark. It is impossible to decide to which of the two 

 above-named species belong the specimens quoted by different 

 authors as : Fistularia serrata Cuv. or Fistularia petimba Lac., 

 if there is no description added. This is also the reason why 

 in our synonymy of the two species none of the numerous 

 papers are quoted in which BLEEKER mentions F. serrata or 

 immaculata Cuv. from many localities. 



i. Fistularia villosa Klunz. [Fig. 5, p. 13]. 



Fistttlaria serrata Cuvier, Regne anim. 1817, II. p. 349, secundum Bloch, Ichth 



1794, tab. CCCLXXXVII, fig. 2 (p. p.). 



? Cannorhynchus immaculatus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1 193. 

 Fistularia serrata Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 1861, p. 533 (p. p.)- 

 Fistularia villosa Klunzinger, Abh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 516. 

 Fistularia serrata Gunther, Challenger Reports VI. Shore fishes 1 880, p. 68. 

 Fistularia petimba Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America I. 



1896, p. 758 (nee Lacepede). 

 Fistularia petimba Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1900, p. 350 



(nee Lacepede). 

 Fistularia petimba Jordan & Starks, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXVI. 1902, p. 67 



(nee Lacepede). 



Fistularia serrata Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXII. (1902) 1904, p. 437. 

 Fistularia serrata Jordan & Evermann, ibid. XXIII. (1903) 1905, p. 116. 

 Fistularia serrata Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XLII. 1912, p. 408. 

 Fistularia petiinba Max Weber, Siboga-Exped. Fische 1913, p. IOI (nee Lacepede). 



