THE 
CHORDATED STYLEPHORUS. 
Generic Character. 
Eyes pedunculated; handing on a fhort, thick 
cylinder. 
Snout lengthened ; directed upwards; retractile 
towards the head by means of a membrane. 
Mouth without teeth ? 
Branchiae three pair, beneath the throat. 
Fins -pectoral fmall; dorfal the length of the back; 
caudal lhort, with fpiny rays. 
Body very long; compreffed. 
Having already deferibed this highly curious ani¬ 
mal in the firft Volume of the TranfaCtions of the 
Linnaean Society, I lhall at prefent only obferve 
that it is here reprefented in its natural fize; that 
the color (except on the head and fins, which are 
brown) is a bright filver; and that it Avas taken near 
a duller of fmall iflands not far from the coaft of 
Cuba. The only fpecimen yet knoAvn in Europe, 
and from which the defeription above referred to in 
the Linnaean Tranfaclions was drawn up, is preferved 
in the Leverian Mufeum. 
I need not add that this filh conftitutes a neAV 
genus, of which no other fpecies has yet been dis¬ 
covered. 
