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608. E. californicus Cooper. — Ftying-fish; Volador. 
Steel-blue above and on both sides, belly abruptly silvery. Pectorals 
blackisb, with the posterior edge paler ; an obscure oblique pale band 
across lower part; caudal plain dusky; ventrals pale, partly dusky; 
dorsal rather pale, with a dusky blotch above. Body stoutish. Lower 
javv rather the longer ; both jaws with minute teeth. Eye large, rather 
longer than snout, 3 in head, nearly equal to the diameter of the slightly 
concave interorbital space. Pectoral fin reaching jjast the dorsal 
and falling just short of the caudal. Second ray of pectoral divided, 
the tliird longest. Yentrals about reaching middle of anal, their length 
3| in body, their insertion midway between middle of oper(ile and base 
of tail. Anterior rays of dorsal half the length of the head ; 43 rows of 
scales between occiput and dorsal, 7 between the dorsal and the lateral 
line. Head 5; dejith C; I). 12; A. 10; Lat. 1. 58. L. 18 inches. 
Southern California ; very abundant in summer about the Santa Bar- 
bara Islands. 
(Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1864, 93; Giiuther, vi, 295.) 
609. E. noveboraceMSis MitcMll. 
Hark bluish above ; pectorals blackish, with the lower edge pale, in 
the young with two black bars; ventrals mesially blackish, the edges all 
white; caudal lobes mesially dusky, the edges pale. Head short ; snout 
very blunt, shorter than the very large eye, which is narrower than the 
broad, concave, interorbital space. Pectoral fins very long, reaching 
past the base of the caudal ; second ray of pectoral divided ; ventrals 
reaching considerably jiast anal ; their insertion midway between the 
preopercle and the base of the caudal. Dorsal fin inserted oi^posite 
anal. Head4g ; depth 5 J. D. 11; A. 9. Lat. 1. 42-48. Xorth Atlantic; 
not rare on our coast. 
(Mitcliil!, Amer. Mouth. Mag. ii, 233, 1817; DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 230; 
? Cuv. & Val. xix, 99.) 
610. E. mcIasiEis'Qis Cut. & Val. 
Bluish above, silveiy below, the pectoral fin blackish, except a por- 
tion of its middle and inner edge; ventrals plain or nearly so. Head 
of moderate length, not very blunt, the interorbital s^iace broad, wider 
than the eye and somewhat concave. Eye very lafge, longer than 
snout, 3 in head. Pectoral fin 1§ in length, reaching jiast the base of 
the last dorsal ray and the tip of the last anal ray. Ventrals insertetl 
midway between the posterior edge of the eye and the middle of the 
base of the caudal, their tips reaching nearly to the base of the last 
