282 BCOJ1BRES0CID.E. 



(G inches long) in the Liverpool Museum ; it was taken about TOO 

 miles oft' Fernando Po. 



B. Pectoral Jins loiu/, more than half as long as the body. 



9. Exoccetus evolans. 



Dutertre, Hist. Ant. ii. p. 212 ; Rochefurt, Hist. Ant. i. p. 372 ; Catesby, 



Carol, tab. 8. 

 Exoccetus evolans, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 521 ; Bl. taf. 398 ; Bl. Schn. 



p. 430, tab. 84 ; Cuv. S) Val. xix. p. 138 ; Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, 



p. 145 ; Bleek. Cape of Good Hope, p. 28 ; Yarrell. Brit. Fish. 3rd 



edit. i. p. 474. 

 Exoccetus, sp., Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 358. 

 Exoccetus volitans, Lacep. v. p. 401, pi. 12. f. 2 ; Perm. Brit. Zool. 



p. 441, tab. 78; Donov. Brit. Fish. ii. p. 31 ; Brown, Philos. Trans. 



Ixviii. p. 790, pi. 12 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. 2nd edit. i. p. 453 ; Benn. 



Whal. Voy. ii. p. 284. 

 Flying Fish, finiite, Voy. Neiv South Wales, pi. 52. fig. 2. 

 Exoccetus splendens, Clarck Abel, Journ. Chin. 1818, p. 4. 

 volans, (Solander) Richards. Ichth. Cliin. p. 264. 



D. 13-14. A. 13-14. L. lat. 42. Yert. 25/19. 



The height of the body is two-elevenths of the total length (with- 

 out caudal), the length of the head one-fourth. The depth of the 

 head is less than the distance between the extremity of the snout and 

 the hind margin of the proeoperculum, and contained once and three- 

 fourths in its length. Snout obtuse and short, three-fourths the 

 length of the diameter of the eye, which is nearly onc-foni'th of the 

 length of the head, and somewhat less than the ■width of the inter- 

 orbital space, which is qiiite flat. The pectoral fin extends to the 

 root of the caudal. Ventral fin midway between end of snout and 

 of dorsal fin, terminating at a great distance from the vent. The 

 dorsal commences a httle in advance of the anal, its anterior rays 

 not being half as long as the head. There are twenty scales between 

 the occiput and origin of the dorsal, and six longitudinal series of 

 scales between the origin of the dorsal and the lateral line. Pec- 

 toral uniform blackish ; with the lower border whitish. Ventrals 

 white. 



Seas of the temperate and tropical zones. 



a. Adult. Mediterranean. 



h. Adult. Demerara. Presented by Lieut. Friend, E.N. 

 c, (I. Half-grown. Midway between Zanzibar and Seychelles. Pre- 

 sented by Lieut. -Col. Playfair. 

 e-f. Adult. Java. Purchased of Mr. Jamrach. 

 g. Adult. India. Frorii Gen. Hardwicke's Collection. 

 h. Young. China Seas. Presented by Sir E. Eelcher. 

 i. Young. North coast of Australia. 

 1-. Adult. Presented by A. Newton, Esq. 

 I. Many specimens, in spirits. 

 m. Yoimg. 



n. Adult : skin. Fruin (Jronow'.s Collection. 

 0. Adult: skeleton. From the Haslar Collection. 



