ON ASIATIC BLOWPIPE FISHES. 93 
xiv., p. 111). Thus up to 1770 only two species of fishes were 
recorded as shooting flies; the first by Hommel, from personal 
observation, of which a specimen sent to Europe was figured in the 
‘Philosophical Transactions,’ and identified as Chetodon rostratus 
of Linneus; the second, whose habits were only vouched for by 
general repute, was an Hpibulus, and has been figured by Pallas. 
No one, that I can ascertain, had asserted that the Sciena 
jaculatriz, now known as Towotes jaculator, with its deeply cleft 
mouth, was able to use it as a blowpipe. 
Fig. 1. Chetodon rostratus. Phil. Trans. 1764, p. 89, t. ix. 
Fig. 2. Scienajaculatrix = Toxotes jaculator. Phil. Trans. 1766, p. 86. 
Fig. 8. Sparus insidiator. Pallas, ‘ Spicilegia,’ 1770, p. 41. 
Even if we possessed no figure of Hommel’s jaculator, it would 
be a physical impossibility that Toxotes was referred to by 
him. In fishes of this genus the mouth is deeply cleft, its 
angle being below the middle of the eye; its lips are thin, and 
closely investing the jaws; its tongue is covered with teeth, free 
at its edges, and terminating anteriorly in an obtuse point. It 
