Jordan and Evermann. fishes of North America, 755 



premaxillary slender ; maxillary broad ; triangular patches of minute 

 teeth on lower jaw, vomer, palatines, gill arches, and pharyngeals. 

 Intestinal canal short ; two pyloric coeca. Olivaceous, with one or two 

 series of brown or blue dots along each side of the back ; another irregu- 

 lar series from the preoperculum along each side of the belly to the anal 

 fin ; three or four silvery lines on each side of abdomen, replaced on the 

 head by irregular oblique streaks ; anterior part of dorsal and anal with 

 a horizontal black band, parallel with base of fin but remote from it ; 

 caudal fin usually with two round black spots; ventral fins plain, spotted. 

 (Giinther.) Caribbean Sea, north to southern Florida; rather common 

 southward, (maculatus, spotted.) 



Aulostoma maculatum, VALENCIENNES,* in Cuvier, Illust. Poissons, plate 92, fig. 2, about 1845; 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 390, 1883. 

 Aulosioma coloratum, MULLER and TROSCHEL, in Schomburgk, History Barbadoes, 673, 1848, 



Barbadoes; GUNTHER, Cat., in, 536, 1861. 



1105. AULSOTOMUS CINEREUS, Poey. 



Head 3^; depth 14i; eye 14 in head, 3 in distance to gill opening. 

 Dorsal X. Insertion of anal midway between ventral and caudal. Sim- 

 ilar to Aulostomus maculatus, but the ground color brown instead of red- 

 dish ; head with black and white points ; trunk with black points ; 6 

 pale longitudinal streaks all below the lateral line; (in Aulostomus 

 maculatus there are 4 below, one on, and one above the lateral line); 

 caudal greenish, with blackish spots, the angles yellowish. Cuba. (Poey.) 

 One specimen known, now in the Museum of Berlin, perhaps a variation 

 of Aulostomus maculatus. (cinereus, ashy gray.) 



Aulostoma cinereum, POET, Synopsis Pise. Cub., 386, 1867, Cuba. 



Family CI. FISTULARIID^. 

 (THE CORNET-FISHES.) 



Body extremely elongate, much depressed, broader than deep. Scale- 

 less, but having bony plates present on various parts of the body, 

 mostly covered by the skin. Head very long, the anterior bones of the 

 skull much produced, forming a long tube, which terminates in the nar- 

 row mouth; this tube formed by the symplecfcic, proethmoid, meta- 

 pterygoid, mesopterygoid, quadrate, palatines, vomer, and mesethmoid. 

 Both jaws, and usually the vomer and palatines also, with minute 

 teeth ; membrane uniting the bones of the tube below, very lax, so that 

 the tube is capable of much dilation. Post-temporal coossified with the 

 cranium. Branchiostegals 5 to 7; gills 4, a slit behind the fourth. 



* Poey remarks, "Dr. Giinther places Aulmloma macnlaliim in the synonymy of Aulosioma 

 coloratum, but this latter name seems later, since Valenciennes (Cuv. & Val., xix, 64) quotes in 

 1846, the plate 98 of the Illustrated Edition of Cuvier." 



