PISCES hyip: 
me a_ photograph: it is possibly an _ older’ specimen 
than the type, has a shorter spine, and is much more gibbous; 
with these exceptions and the larger eye and colouration, 
it more nearly agrees with the figure. It is marked with 
five oblique black bands on each side, the first passing between 
the eye and the pectoral, and the fifth running nearly parallel 
to the hinder profile and embracing the greater part of the 
caudal peduncle, the stellate form of the scutes can also be seen. 
MACRORHAMPHOSUS Lacépéde, 1803. 
MACRORHAMPHOSUS SCOLOPAX Linnzus. 
SNIPE FIsH. 
Balistes scolopax Linneus, Syst. Nat. ed. x., 1758, p. 329. 
Station 89. 
esiven Ds Vata bos V. 1, Seo. O.-9 +. 14, 
Leneth of head 2.0, height of body 3.3, length of caudal 
6.5 in the total: diameter of eye 5.1. length of snotit 1.5, inter- 
orbital space 7.6 in the length of the head. 
Head compressed, but wider than the body, the supero-lateral 
ridges of the snout divide in front of each eye, one branch 
passing over the orbit and continued as a bony strip along the 
body, the other branch goes to the eye at its mid height; the 
nostrils are situated in the triangle thus formed but the area 
is as rough as other parts. 
The body is compressed and oblong, the upper profile forms 
three low angles, the first over the opercle, the next at the origin 
of the dorsal fin, and the third at the origin of the soft dorsal; 
the lower profile forms a low are; there are five ridged scutes on 
the lower profile in advance of the ventral fin, two pairs 
bordering the groove of the fin and two scutes behind it, all 
except the thoracic ones are slightly produced as spines. a bony 
strip formed of three parts lies on each side the thoracic scutes. 
Fins.—The dorsal arises midway between the front margin of 
the eye and the end of the caudal rays, the first spine is very short, 
the second is extremely long, equalling the height of. the body, 
and nearly the length of the snout, it is acute in front and flat 
behind, the hinder edges bear upwardly directed thorns which, 
