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and tip of snout. Mouth small, the eye on a vertical passing midway 

 between tip of snout and angle of mouth. In the upper jaw the teeth 

 are in a single series anteriorly, in 3 series posteriorly; all bluntly 

 pointed, the anterior ones very heavy and slightly curved backwards, 

 the posterior ones somewhat more slender; anterior part of jaw with 

 2 or more rather large median teeth behind which is a vomerine series, 

 forked in front. Teeth of lower jaw heavy and rather blunt, in 2 

 series laterally, but increasing in number and formmg a cluster at the 

 symphysis. Body gray, mottled and spotted with bro^vTl, the head 

 on anterior half plain brown; gill opening with a brown spot. The 

 type is much faded and therefore lighter, the markings being less 

 distinct. The fins are like the body, the tip of the tail dark. The 

 length of the specimen here described is 145 millimeters. 



ECmDNA POLYZONA (Richardson). 



A specimen from the tide pools, 130 miUimeters long, was bro^vnish 

 black in life with narrow bars of yellowish white. 



Family BELONIDiE. 



TYLOSURUS GIGANTEUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Family EXOCGETID^.^ 



HEMIRAMPHUS, sp. 



Some badly damaged specimens from the market that closely 

 resemble H. pacificus, may possibly belong to that species. 



HEMIRAMPHUS COMMERSONI Cuvier. 



One specimen 380 millimeters long from the market has the fourth 

 spot of the body located below the middle of the dorsal fin. A fifth 

 faintly outlined spot is below the posterior part of the dorsal. There 

 extends along the dorsal part of the body a conspicuous stripe which, 

 below the dorsal fin, is equal in width to one scale. Anteriorly the 

 stripe broadens toward the pectoral; posteriorly it narrows on the 

 caudal peduncle and then abruptly widens on the base of the caudal 

 fin. The dorsal part of the stripe is steel blue, the ventral part silvery. 

 The dorsal has 12 rays, the anal 10. There are 50 scales in a lateral 

 series. 



PAREXOCCETUS BRACHYPTERUS (Solander). 



Family FISTULARIID^. 



FISTULARIA PETIMBA Lacepede. 

 FISTULARIA SERRATA Cuvier. 



Family SYNGNATHIDiE. 



CORYTHROICHTHYS ISHIGAKIUS (Jordan and Snyder). 



Nme specimens were taken m the tide pools. The length of the 

 snout usually equals that of the rest of the head, but in some examples 



1 Hemiramphus dussumicri (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Bemiramphus japonicus Brevoort (fide Tanaka). 



