58 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Color in spirits, pale green, with blotches of darker green on side; 3 blaek cross-bands on under part of 

 thorax; some line dark longitudinal lines on opercle. 3 on under part of head; no dark lines through eve: snout 

 with about ."> indist inct bands of dots; a dusky blotch on base of pectoral (not always present) ; dorsal unmarked. 



Very near C. am&picuUatus (Jenyns), but with longer snout, more posterior dorsal and the dorsal scales 

 more roughened. 



Eight specimens from Bacon (no. 389S and 3944; length 4.2 to 4.75 in.). 



Type (field no, 3944), no. 55908, U. S. National Museum, 4.75 in. in length, from Bacon, Sorsogon: 

 collected by (has. .1. Pierson. Of the cotvpes, each bearing field no. 3898, one is no. 20001, Stanford Uni- 

 versity Museum: another is no. 4536, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, and one each is in the museum at Manila. 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the U. S. National Museum, the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, the Indiana University Museum, and the Field Museum of Natural History. 



Family BELONID.F.. 



28. Tylosurus giganteus (Temminck & Schlegel) 



Five specimens from Bacon (no. 3697, 3698. and 337s to 3380; length 8.75 to 12 in.). These agree well 

 with specimens from Hawaii. 



Bfloii< gigantea Temminck A Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1 'iso-s. 245, 1846, Nagasaki. 



Bt tint' annulata, < iiinther, Cat., vi. 240. 



Tylosurus giganteus, Jordan i Evermann, Bull. V. S. Fish Comm., win. pt. 1. 1903 1 1905), 124, fig. 30 (Honolulu). 



29. Tylosurus leiuroides (Bleeker). 



One specimen from Bacon (no. 3519; length 11.25 in.); dorsal 21; anal 21. 

 Distinguished by the long nose and low dorsal fin. 

 Bclone leiuroides Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., i. 1850, 479, Billiton; Gunther, Cat., vi. 243. 



Family EX0C(ETIDj£. 



30. Hyporhamphus quoyi (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Three specimens from Bacon (no. 34(30. 3617, and 361S: length 7 to 9.1 in.). 

 These agree will with Bleeker's figure. 



Hemiramphus quoyi Cuvier A Valenciennes, I list. Nat. Poiss., \ix. 26 (35), New Guinea: Gunther, Cat., vi. 267; Bleeker. 

 Atlas. VI. .'.7. ]il. ci L, fig. 3. 



31. Hyporhamphus dussuniierii (Cuvier & Valenciennes) 



Four specimens from Bacon (no. 4005 and 3962; length 2.25 to 1.5 in.), and one from Bulan (no. 3739; 

 length 10 in i 



We have compared these specimens with others from Samoa identified by Jordan and Scale as //. affirms and 

 find them indistinguishable, and we regard //. affirm Gunther as a synonym of //. dussum u p ii. 

 Hemiramphus dussumerii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. P.iiss.. xi\.24 (33), pi. v>4. Seychelles; Gunther. Cat., vi. 266. 



32. Hemiramphus marginatus (Forsk&l). 



Four fine specimens from Bacon (no. 4160 to 4163; length HI in. i agreeing with Bleeker's figure. 



Eso.r marginatus Forskal, Descr. Anim.,57, 177.3. Red Sea. 



Hemirhamphus marginatus, Gunther, Cat., vi, 270: Bleeker, Atlas, VI, 54, pi. cii.iy, tie. I 



33. Cypsilurus simus (Covin A: Valenciennes). 



Two specimens from Bacon (no. 3308 and 3309: length 6.5 and 6.75 in. I, two from Bulan (no. 3202 and 

 3203: length 9.2 and 9.75 in.), and one from the "Philippines," no definite label (no. 4164: length 9.3 in.). 

 We have compared these with examples from Honolulu and find them to agree perfectly. 



ms Cuvier .v Valenciennes, Hist- Nat. Poiss.. xix. 77 (105), Hawaiian Islands. 

 Cypsilurv Ionian & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram., xxnt, pt. 1. 1903 (1905), 134. fig- 46 (Honolulu: \\ 



and Ilananiaiilii Kay. Kauai; anil Napili, Molnkai i. 



