190 Storefs Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



their edges, with minute teeth ; in other respects the species, in their fins, vis- 

 cera, and general aspect, resemble the Gar-fish. 



1. Hemiramphns Brasiliensis, Bi.och. 



Upper part of the body blue, paler along the sides, and silvery upon the abdomen. 

 Head a clear blue and silvery ; tail yellow and bluish ; beak brown and deep blue. Body- 

 three limes the length of the lower jaw ; pectoral fins shorter than the half of the lower 

 jaw ; posterior fins almost equal. Caudal deeply cleft. The upper mandible shorter than 

 the semidiameter of the eye. The inferior very long and flexible. Scales large. 



D. 14. P. 10. V. G. A. 12. C. 20 to 24. Length, 12 or 15 inches- 



Caribbean Sea, near Guadaloupe and Martinique, Lesueur. 



Called " Balao," at Guadaloupe and Martinique. 



E.sox Brasitiensis, Bloch, 391. 



" " Lin ,Syst. Nat., p. S17. 



" " Piper, Browne's Jamaica, p. 443. pi. 4S, fig 2. 



" " Brazilian Pike, Shaw's Gen Zool., v. p. 109. 



Esox marginatum (?), Lacepedb, v. pi 7 fig. 2. 

 Hemiramphus marginaius, Lesueur, Journ. Acad Nit. Sc, n, p. 135. 

 Hemiramphus Brasiliensis (Cuv.), Griffith's Cuv., x. p. 3'j5. 



2. Hemiramphus balao, Lesueur. 



Color a little deeper than that of preceding, and tail bluish. Body four times the length 

 of the lower jaw ; pectoral fin a third part shorter lhan the lower mandible ; anal fin as 

 long as the dorsal. 



D. 14. P. 10. V. 0. A. 12. C. 20 to 24. Length, (>). 



Caribbean Sea, near Guadaloupe, Martinique, and St. Domingo, Lesueur. 



Also called " Balao." 



Hemiramphus balao, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, u p 136. 



FAMILY XIX. FISTULARIDiE. 



Characterized by a long tube in the fore part of the cranium, formed by the 

 prolongation of the ethmoid, vomer, preopercula, interopercula, pterygoideals, 

 and tympanals, and at the extremity of which is the mouth, composed, as 

 usual, of the intermaxillaries, maxillaries, and the palatine and mandibulary 

 bones. Their intestine has neither great inequalities nor many folds, and their 

 ribs are short or wanting. Some of them, the Fistulariae, have a cylindrical 

 body ; in others, the Centrisci, it is oval and compressed. 



This family concluded the order Acanthopterygii in the " IU-gne Animal." 



