54 BULLETIN 18 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Order SYNENTOGNATHI 

 Family SCOMBERESOCIDAE 



Genus COLOLABIS Jordan and Evermann 



Vololabis (Gill) Jordan and Evebmann, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, p. 726, 1896. 

 (Type, Scombresox brevirostrls Peters.) 



COLOLABIS SAIRA (Brevoort) 



Scotnberesox saira Beevooet, in Perry, Narrative of the expedition of au American 

 squadron to the China seas and Japan . . . 1852-54, p. 281, pi. 7, fig. 4, on a 

 drawing, 1856. 



CololaMs saira (Brevoort) Schultz, Copeia, 1940, No. 4, p. 270. 



11.5202, latitude 27°02'30" N., longitude 132°51' W., 1 specimen. 

 115201, latitude 22°24' N., longitude 144°53' W., 4 specimens. 



There are in the National Museum a few specimens of this species 

 taken near the Hawaiian Islands by the Albatrosfi. 



Family BELONIDAE 

 Genus BELONE Cuvier 



Bclone CmiEB, Regne animal, ed. 1, p. 185, 1817. (Type, Esox helone Linnaeus.) 



BELONE PLATYURA Bennett 

 Belone platyura Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1831, pt. 1, p. 168. 



After measuring a large series of specimens of the large-eyed form 

 Belone platyura and many of the small-eyed form named by Giinther 

 B. persimilis^ I am of the opinion that when small this species has a 

 small eye and when larger the eye is much larger in proportion. 



115279, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 1 

 siJeclmen. 



115278, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115281, Swains Island reef, May 3-9, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115283, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939. L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 3 .specimens. 



115280, Rose Island reef, latitude 14°32'51.91" S., longitude 168''08'33.70" W., 

 June 11-14, 1939, 52 specimens. 



115282, Hull Island reef, July 12-15, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52527, Apia, Samoa, 1 specimen. 



Genus TYLOSURUS Cocco 



Tylosiirus CoccJO, Giorn. Sci. Lett. Art. Sicilia, vol. 42, No. 124, 1833. (Type, 

 Tylosurus caniraini Cocco.) 



TYLOSURUS INCISA (Valenciennes) 



Belone incisa Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des 

 poissons, vol. 18, p. 451, 1840. 



52304, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



