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caudal of the general colour of the body, with its sides 
golden ; on the back there are four series of large rounded 
black blotches. 
I have five specimens, the largest of which is two and a 
half inches long ; on the smaller specimens one inch long ; 
the anterior part of the head and body are brown, and the 
black blotches of the body are not visible. 
This sort must be very nearly allied to Acanthurus Orbicu- 
laris, Cuv. and Val., but the proportions of the body are 
different; the caudal of their species is truncated, and the 
lateral line is described as impressed. 
AULOSTOMA CHINENSE. 
Fistularia Chinensis, Block, pi. 388. 
Aulostomus Chinensis, Lacep., v., p. 357. 
Aulostoma Chinense, Schleg., Richard., Gunther. 
The head, from the anterior edge of the eye to the end 
of the operculum, is contained a little over twice in the 
space from that edge to the end of the snout ; the lateral 
line is formed of a rather irregular interrupted ridge. The 
colour is uniformly brown without any spots ; there is a barbel 
at the end of the maxillary, and another on the chin ; this is 
very convex. 
I have searched very minutely for teeth, but cannot find 
any. I am not certain that this sort is the one figured bv 
Bloch. 
Several specimens from six to seven inches long. 
FISTULARIA SBRRATA. 
Fistularia Serrata, Cuv. Regne Animal, vol. ii., p. 267. 
— Gunther, Cat., vol. iii., p. 533. 
Tabaccaria, White, New South Wales, p. 296 
fig. 2. 
Immaculata, Cuv. Regne Animal, vol. xi.,p. 267. 
Two specimens of this curious fish are in the collection ; 
they have both lost the posterior part of their body, and have' 
