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anal ray ; second ray of pectoral fin divided. Dorsal fin low, its insertion 



nearly opposite front of anal. Head 4; depth 6. D. llj A. 9 5 scales 



6-52-3. North Atlantic ; occasional on our coast. 



(??Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xix, 101 ; said to have a black blotcli on the upper 

 part of the base of the tail, recalling the coloration of siiecies o( Sargus, a feature not 

 noticed by us on any of our flying-fish.) 



611. E. exilicns Graelin. 



Bluish above, silvery below, sides with five broad, transverse bars; 

 pectorals and ventrals irregularly banded and blotched with blue and 

 black. Body very slender; snout short, i length of head. Dorsal and 

 anal fins similar and opposite. Ventrals inserted slightly behind the 

 middle of the body ; pectorals 1§ in length of body ; second ray of pec- 

 torals extendiug beyond the membrane in a spine-like process. Ven- 

 trals 3 in length. Head 6 in total length with caudal. D. 12 ; A. 12. 

 Lat. 1. 48. {Goode.) Atlantic Ocean; a small species, possibly the 

 young of some other. 



(Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, 1400, 17b8 ; Gunther, vi, 291 ; Goode, BuU. U. S. Nat. Mas. v, 

 64) 



1§6.— CYPSEI.URUS Swainson. 



Bearded Flying-Jislies. 



(CypsUurus Swainson, Classification of Fishes, 1839, 298: typo Exoccctus nutialli Le 

 Sueur.) 



This genus differs from Exocoetus in the presence of one or more bar- 

 bels or cutaneous appendages of delicate texture on the tip of the man- 

 dible. The species are all of small size, and it is possible that in some 

 of them these appendages are lost with age. {y.u^'eXoq^ a swift or swal- 

 low; uvpa^ tail.) 



612. C. fiircatus (Mitch.) Weinland. 



Barbels 2, ribbon-like, usually little if any longer than the eye. Eye 

 large, narrower than the broadly, slightly concave, interocular space. 

 Adult nearly plain; young with three broad, black bands across the 

 belly in front of the ventrals; operculum and pectorals marbled with 

 black; lower caudal lobe with three blackish cross bands; i:>osterior 

 part of ventral and lower part of anal black. Ventrals and pectorals 

 reaching i)ast base of caudal ; ventrals inserted nearer the root of the 

 caudal than the snout ; dorsal very high, higher than the body, the 

 longest rays not reaching the caudal. Anal not low. Head 4 in 



