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Color in spirits: A bluish diffused lateral band follow7th7(X)ntour 

 of hack, ruruinig from the pectoral base to just above the niiddle 

 of the caudal base, growing- narrower posteriorly. Above lateral band 

 the body is greenish or brownish; below uniformlv bright silvery 

 Upper part of head dark, except translucent cartilaeinous area; base 

 of upper jaw black; head otherwise silvery. Distal half of pectoral 

 black; outer rays and tips of ventrals dusky; anterior rays of anii! 

 dusky toward tips; dorsal blackish, except bases of anterior rays, the 

 rays usually green; caudal dusky. 



Here described from specimens from Nagasaki 45 cm. in length. 

 Other specimens are from Wakanoura. 



(o-j/or^or. split; pvyxog^ snout.) 



2. TYLOSURUS GIGANTEUS (Schlegel). 



OKIZAYORI (OFFSHORE NEEDLEFISH). 



rSelone indica Le Sueue, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, 1821, p. 1.31; India. 

 Belone giganU'u Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p.' 245; Nagasaki — 



Bleeker, Ac. Soc. Indo-Nederl., Ill, Japan, p. 21. 

 Below ((unulata Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVIII, 1846, p. 



447; Celebes, Friendly Islands, Seychelles, Pondicherry. 

 Bi'Jone annulata Gunther, Cat. Fish.,Vl, 1866, p. 240; Pinang, China.— Ishi- 



KAw.v, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 18; Tokyo, Formosa. 

 MaMacembelus annulatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Belon., 1870, p. 48; .Java, Madura, 



Bawean, Cocos, Sumatra, Singapore, Celebes, Pinang, Batjan, ' Ternate' 



Amboina, Gilolo. 

 I f Belone vielanurus Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXII, 1849, p. 11. 

 Belo)u' cylindrica Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 1851, p. 18. 

 :' Belone brachi/rht/nrlni.^ Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind.,VI, 1854, p. 61; Gilolo, 



vouns. 



\ Head from tip of lower jaw 3f in length; depth at ventrals li in 

 wstorbital part of head. Dorsal 23; anal 21. 



Body as wide as deep to within a short distance of dorsal, the 

 ■nterorbital sj^ace and head above gently convex. Jaws rather short 

 .nd stout, the lower slightly the longer; their sides nowhere parallel 

 j)ut approaching rather rapidly to a point. Length of snout from 

 |,nterior margin of eye equal to the distance from same point to middle 

 •f longest pectoral rays. Eye one-third of postorbital part of head, 

 jDe-half of interorbital. Interorbital space with two low ridges, sepa- 

 ated from each other by a space equal to two-thirds diameter of eye, 

 npreceptibly diverging anteriorly. Between them are two narrower, 

 tioi-ter, parallel ridges separated by a space one-tliird of diameter of 

 w. Nostrils broad, triangular, containing a fleshy process divided 

 ,ito many folds. Cheeks entirely scaled; scales on top of head before 

 yes to base of premaxillary. 



I Length of pectoral equals postorbital part of head and one-third 

 /e. Length of ventrals contained 2i times in space between their 

 ise and front of anal. Insertion of ventrals midwav between middle 



