272 SCOMHRESOCID^. 



ventrals inserted posteriorly in the fourth sixth of the total length ; 

 length of the anal about two-thirds of that of the dorsal; caudal 

 emarginate. Body with nine or ten broad bro■^^'nish eross bands ; 

 dorsal black posteriorly; central portion of the caudal black. {Bl.) 

 Sea of Solor. 



a. Type of the species, 2| inches long, Lawajong. From Dr. 

 Bleeker's Collection. 



28. Hemirhamphus limbatus. 



Hemirhamphus limbatus, Cm: ^- Val. xix. p. 44 (not synou.), 

 tridentifer, Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 249. 



D. 13. A. 13. L. lat. 51. 



The length of the entire head is contained twice and two-thirds in 

 the total (without caudal), the length of the lower jaw (beyond the 

 extremity of the upper jaw) five times and a third. The triangular 

 part of the upper jaw, formed by the intermaxiUaries, is much 

 broader than long. The diameter of the eye is nearly equal to the 

 width of the interorbital space, and two-thirds of the length of the 

 postorbital part of the head. The root of the ventral fin is a little 

 nearer to the base of the caudal than to the eye. Dorsal and anal 

 fins scaleless ; the former much longer than the latter. Caudal fin 

 emarginate, the central rays being much longer than the eye. Sides 

 with a well-defined silvery band nearly as broad as a scale. 



Indian Ocean. 

 a. Seven inches long. Ceylon. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 

 h-c. Five and seven inches long : skins. Pinang. Types of H. tri- 

 dentifer, Cant. 



b. Caudal rounded. 



aa. Dorsal rays much more numerous than anal; beak tvith minute teeth 

 along each edge : Hemirhamphodon (£lkr.). 



29. Hemirhamphus phaiosoma. 



Hemirhamphus phaiosoma, Bleeker, Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 99, 



cop. in Verh. But. Gen. xxiv. <S*fA:. p. 26. 

 Hemirhamphodon phaiosoma, Blt'efc. Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. p. 168. 



D. 21. A. 9. L. lat. 70-80. 



The length of t]^head is contained three times and one-fourth 

 in the total (with t^lpaudal), that of the snout five times and one- 

 fourth. Upper jaw longer than broad. The diameter of the eye 

 equals the -width of the interorbital space, and is two-thirds of the 

 length of the postorbital part of the head. The ventral fins are in- 

 serted at the anterior limit of the fourth sixth of the total length, and 

 have the inner ray not prolonged. Caudal rounded. Entirely brown. 



Elvers of Biliton. 



«. Tyi)o of the species. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



