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numerous. When young ribbon-shaped, passing through a 
series of stages like those seen in A/dz/a, 
Synopsis of the species. 
A. Lower jaw included, the whole of the intermaxillary 
band of teeth exposed when the mouth is closed. 
ELBA) —— Abeta tats, het cite) wile) c? aiyfet sills te) sls sh Ye E. hawaiensis p. 3. 
4. Lower jaw projecting, covering the anterior part of 
the intermaxillary band of teeth when the mouth 
isnclosed. Eleads gif Arle hy wg at's a Mere uy ore E.-machnata p. 4. 
1. Elops hawaiensis T. Regan. 
Elops saurus Bleeker. Atl, Ichth. VI. 1866—1872, p. 84 (not of Linné). 
Elops hawaiensis Regan. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8. III. 1909, p. 39. 
Elops hawaiensis Giinther. Fische der Siidsee. Heft VIII. 1909, p. 386. 
Elops nrawaiiensis Jordan & Richardson. Mem. Carnegie Mus. Vol, IV. 
n®, 4, 1909, p. 165. 
Elops hawaiensis Max Weber. Siboga-Exp. Fische. 1913. p. I. 
Fig. 2. Llops hawaiensis Reg. 
me 27-3; Di 24; Ao 15-16; P. 17—18; V-. 14—15; L. 
1. 96—08. 
Height 5'/,, head 3°/,—4, eye 4—5. Snout nearly as longas 
or a little longer than eye. Maxillary extending far beyond 
eye. Lower jaw included, the whole ofthe intermaxillary band 
of teeth exposed when the mouth is closed. Origin of 
dorsal much nearer to caudal than to snout. Height of dorsal 
about equal to its length and equal to head without snout. 
Anal far behind dorsal. Ventrals a little nearer to base of 
caudal than to tip of snout, longer than half of head, about 
as long as pectorals, which are a little less than half their 
distance from the ventrals. Their origin before origin of dorsal. 
Fine teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. 
Thirteen to 14 strong flattened gillrakers, with conspicuous 
