13$ L O N G E R P I P E. CtASS IV, 



XI. Nole loflo; and tabular. 

 yiPE 



No orifice to the gHis : 



The breathing aperture on the hind part of the head 



No ventral fins. 



The body covered with a ftrong cruft. 



■60. LoiTCER. Acus Arijiotdis Cauda fer- gulo, pinna c^udae carens r 



pentina. Sib, Scot. 24. Tab. Arted. Spec, 3. 



19. ^yngnathus barbarus. S. pin- 



Typhle altera. Gefner pifc, nis caudae anique nullis, 



1025. corpore fexangulato? Lin^ 



Syngnathus C(Jrpore quadran- fyji, 417. 



THIS fpecies, defcribed by Sir Rohrt Siir 

 hald^ was two feet in length ^ that we ex- 

 amined only fixteen inches. 



The nofe v;as an inch long, comprefTed fideways, 

 and the end of the lower mandible turned up : the 

 aperture of the mouth was very fmall. 



The irides were red^ behind each eye was a deep 

 brown line. 



The body, in the thickeft part, was about equal 

 to a fwan's quil, hexangular from the end of the 

 uorfal fin j from thence to the tail quadrangular. 

 The belly was (lightly carinated, and marked along 

 xh^ middle with a du/ky line. Under the tail com- 

 mencing at the anus is a fulcus or groove, fix 



inches 



