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which are attached to the humeral arch. Scales small or none, 

 but parts of the skeleton or dermal productions may take the form 

 of external plates. Air-bladder large. Pyloric appendages few. 

 Vertebrae numerous. 



Geographical Distribution. Tropical and subtropical coasts of 

 Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. 



1. Genus PISTULARIA, Linn. 

 Syn. Solenostomus, sp., Klein & Gronov. ; Cannorhynchus, Cantor. 



Branchiostegals seven. Mouth slightly cleft. Dorsal and anal 

 fins composed entirely of undivided rajs ; caudal forked, with one 

 or two of its median rays very elongate and filiform. No scales, 

 but some bony casing behind the head above and below. 



Geographical Distribution. Tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans. 



1196. (1.) Fistularia serrata. (Fig. 116.) 



Fistularia serrata, Cuv. Regn. Anim. 1817, ii, p. 349 ; Day, Fish. India, 



p. 360, pi. Ixxvi, fig. 3 (see synon.). 

 Goorum, Tel. ; Tol, Marathi. 



D. 13-15. P. 13. V. 1/5. A. 14-15. C. 10/1/10. 

 Length of head 2| in total to end of tail (excluding the fila- 

 ment). Eyes 1| to 1J diameters in postorbital length of head. 



Fig. 116. Fistularia serrata. 



A serrated ridge from anterior upper angle of eye to nostril, and 

 continued along the outer margin of the snout, decreasing in 

 strength and finally ceasing about the middle of its length. Fins 

 the rays undivided. Coloui brown, dirty white beneath ; occa- 

 sionally light spots on back and sides. 



Hub. East coast of Africa, seas of India, Malay Archipelago, 

 China, and JN T ew Holland. At the Andaman Islands I found this 

 fish frequenting the most muddy localities ; it is common at Madras. 



