98 PARADOXICAL FISTULARIA. 



ventral small, and placed considerably beyond the 

 middle of the body : general colour pale reddish- 

 brown, with several deep or blackish spots on vari- 

 ous parts of the body, and three or four pale or 

 whitish longitudinal stripes on each side, from the 

 gills to the tail : fins pale yellow. Native of the 

 Indian seas, preying on worms, sea-insects, &c. 

 Though observed only in the tropical seas, yet its 

 fossil impressions have been found under the vol- 

 canic strata of mount Bolca in the neighbourhood 

 of Verona*. 



PARADOXICAL FISTULARIA. 



Fistularia Paradoxa. F. cinereo-Jlavescens, fusco variata, pinnis 



pectoralibus ventralibusque magnis, cauda lanceolata. 

 Yellowish ash-coloured Fistularia, with brown variegations, 



large pectoral and ventral fins, and lanceolate tail. 

 Fistularia paradoxa. F. lineis argute prominulis reticulata, cauda 



lanceolata. Lin. Gmel. 1388. Fall, spic, zool. 8. p. 32. t. 



4.f. 6. 



A SMALL species, described by Seba, and, more 

 accurately, by Dr. Pallas. Length from two to 

 four inches : body angular, and beset at the inter- 

 stices of the lines with small spines : head small : 

 eyes large, and situated at the base of the snout, 

 which much resembles that of a Syngnathus, and is 

 long, slightly descending, strait, horny, compressed, 

 sharp above, and bicarinated beneath : it is armed 

 on each side, near the base, by a small, conic spine : 



* Gazok's Ichthiologie des environs de Verone, pL 5.f, 1. 



