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2c. Length of preorbital bone a trifle shorter than length of intermaxillary 

 plate or 8 to 9 of it, 2.1 times in eye, and its depth equal to its length ; 

 length of intermaxillary plate 1.4 in its width or broader than long; 

 scales about 4i^ or 5Vi.+57+l or 2; about 36 scales before dorsal; 

 gill rakers 10+29; dorsal rays 14 to 16 (12 to 13 branched); anal 

 13 to 15 (12 to 14 branched); pectoral about 12; origin of dorsal 

 over rear edge of anus ; pelvic insertion a trifle clo.«er to head than 

 posterior edge of hypural plate ; no teeth on upper surface of beak in front 

 of mouth Hemirhamphus affinis Giinther 



Genus HYPORHAMPHUS Gill 



Eyporhamphns Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadephia, 1859, p. 131. (Type, 

 Hyporhumphus tricnspidatus Gill.) 



HYPORHAMPHUS FAR (Forsk&l) 



Esox far Fobskal, Descriptiones animalium . . ., pp. 13, 67, 1775. 



83270, Samoa, "Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1 specimen. 

 83325, Fiji ?, 2 specimens. 



Genus ODONTORHAMPHUS Weed 



OdontorhampJms Weed, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser., vol. 20, pp. 47, 51, 

 1933. (Type, OdontorJiamphiis chancellori Weed.) 



ODONTORHAMPHUS CHANCELLORI Weed 



Odontorhaniphus chmicellori Weed, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser., vol. 20, 

 p. 52, fig. 1, 1933. 



115207, Swains Island, reef. May 4, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115206, Hull Island, channel, July 7-17, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115208, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 11 specimens. 



115209, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 51 specimens. 



Genus HEMIRHAMPHUS Cuvier 



Eemi-Rhamphus Cuvier, Regne animal, ed. 1, p. 186, 1817. (Type, Esox bras- 

 iliensis Linnaeus.) 



HEMIRHAMPHUS PACIFICUS Steindachner 



Hemirhamphus pacificus Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 70, 

 p. 511, 1901. 



52530, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



HEMIRHAMPHUS AFFINIS Gunther 



Hemirhamphus affinis Gijntheb, Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum, 

 vol. 6, p. 267, 1806. 



115205, Tutuila Lsland, Pago P;;go Bay, June 7, 1939, 2 specimens. 

 115204, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofan. June 3. 1939, 3 specimen.s. 

 115203, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, 2 specimens. 

 52346, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 8 specimens. 



Family EXOCOETIDAE 



A workable key to the flyingfishes of Oceania must await a review of 

 this group. The series at hand is not large enough to determine the 

 variability of certain forms. 



