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195.— SCOMBERESOX Lacdpecle. (182) 



663. Scomberesox saurus Wulbauui. N. S. O. Eu. (601) 



664. Scomberesox brevirostria Peters. C. (602) 



196.— HEMIRHAMPHUS Cuvier. (183) 



665. Hemirhamphus unifasciatus' Ranzani. W. 



666. Hemirhamphus roberti - Cuv. »fe Val. S. P. (603) 



667. Hemirhamphus rosae Jordan & Gilbert. C. (604) 



668. Hemirhamphus pleei'Cuv.&Val. S. W. P. (604 &.) 



197.— EULEPTORHAMPHUS Gill. (183 6.) 



669. Euleptorhamphus longirostris Cuvier. O. (605) 



198.— CHRIODORUS Goode & Bean. (183c.) 



670. Chriodorus atherinoides Goode &, Bean. "W. (605 h.) 



199.~PAREXOCCBTUS Bleeker. 



671. Parexocoetiis mesogaster^ Hloch. W. S. (607 6.) 



200.-HALOCYPSELUS Weinland. (184) 



672. Halocypselus evolans' Linnanie. S. (606; 607) 



1 Hemirhamphus unifasdatus Ranzani. Clear greenish with bluish luster; a silvery- 

 lateral band; no red on fins; tip of lower jaw scarlet. Very close to II. unifasciatus, 

 differing chioily in the shorter beak, and the less compressed and more robust body. 

 Lower jaw from end of upper jaw 6 to 7 in total length from its tip to base of caudal, 

 (4^ in //. rohcrti) its length always less than that of rest of head; head with lower 

 jaw, 3 ; body half deeper than broad ; premaxillaries broader than long ; eye less than 

 interorbital width, I postorbital part of head ; ventrals midway between eye and liase 

 of caudal ; dorsal and anal densely scaly ; back broad. Head 4^, depth 6^. D. 12 to 

 14, A. 15, lat. 1.52, length 12 inche.s. Florida Keys to Cuba and Panama, represent- 

 ing H roberti southward. 



Hemirhamphus iivifaficiatus Ranzani, Comni. In.st. Bon., 1842, ¥.326, tab. 25; not of 

 most recent authors ; ? nemirhamphus picarti Cnx. & Val. XIX, li^46, 25 {Hemirhamphua 

 richardi Cuv. & Val., XIX, 1h46,26 ; Heynirhamphus fnsciatus Poey, Memorias Cuba, II, 

 299, 1860, not of Bleeker ; IIemirhamphiif< j)Of i/? Gnnthcr, VI, 262). 



-The species called in the text Hemirhamphus unifasciatus should stand an Hemi- 

 rhamphus roierti Cuv. & Val. Lower jaw longer than rest of head. South Atlantic 

 coast of United States and southward, also on the Pacific coast southward. 



Instead of the synonymy in the text read : {Hemirhamphus roierti Cuv. & Val., XIX, 

 1846,24; Giinther VI, 263, Hemirhamphus unifasciatus of most recent American au- 

 thors, not of Ranzani, whose species is the short billed one.) 



A discussion of the species of this genus is given by Meek & Goss, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1884. 



3 The species called in the Synopsis (p. 902), Hemirhamphus irasilienais, should appar- 

 ently stand as Hemirhamphus j)?m. 



■• Exococtus vicsoijaster Bloch, Ichthyol., XII, tab. 29Q = Exocoelua hillianua Gosse. See 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 588.) 



^'Exococtus oitusirostris Giinther, seems to he identical with H. cvolans. 



