EXOCOETIDAK. 85 



Hemiramphus saltator Gilukrt & Starks. 

 Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 53, pi. 9, fig. 16. 



Two specimens 2? and 3 inches long from Station 4596, off Acapulco, 

 M. C. Z. 29591 (1 specimen). 



These are provisionally placed here as they agree very well in most respects. 

 In spirits the color of the beak is black; a broad dark brown band running from 

 snout through eye to base of caudal, above which the body is lighter brown; 

 sides of head from and below eye across the opercle and side of belly abruptly 

 silvery; two dusky stripes along belly beginning faintly at throat, increasing 

 in intensity to ventral fin and terminating near front of anal where they merge 

 into the dusky color of that part of body; pectoral pale, dorsal dusky posteriorly; 

 ventrals pale with large black area covering nearly entire base of fin and nar- 

 rowing as it continues on inner edge to last third of fin. 



EXOCOETIDAE. 



Ezocoetus volitans Linn^. 

 Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 316. Snodgrass & Heller, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1905, 6, p. 351. 



One specimen 21 inches long from Station 4615, Lat. 9°, 7' N.; Long. 85°, 

 11' W. 



Dorsal 12; anal 13. Barbel at chin black, nearly as long as head; insertion 

 of ventrals about midway between tip of lower jaw and base of next to last anal 

 ray; ventrals short, not nearly reaching anal; pectorals long, reaching nearly, 

 to fork of caudal; upper pectoral ray simple, other rays branched; caudal lobes 

 unequal, lower longer than head; pectoral black, the lower three or four rays 

 pale, tips of others probably white; pectoral with a large black spot near base 

 of inner rays, another one near the end of the fin at the outer end of the same rays; 

 caudal pale with some dusky punctulations on lower half of lower lobe; mem- 

 branes of dorsal and anal black, especially posteriorly; back brownish; belly 

 silvery; traces of four broad, dark cross-bands on body, most distinct poste- 

 riorly, the second of these bands immediately in front of dorsal, the 3rd extending 

 from base of 6th to base of 10th dorsal rays inclusive; 4th on base of caudal 

 peduncle; chin and snout with dusky punctulations. 



The following specimens, with the two exceptions noted, differ somewhat 

 from the preceding in color and also in not having a barbel on chin, but they 

 agree in position and length of ventral and in the number of dorsal and anal 

 rays. 



