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scent steep to eye; snout compressed laterally to scarcely more than the width of 

 the interorbital space, which is 3 in width of head ; mouth large, the eye being 

 midway between its angle and tip of snout ; teeth in single series in jaws ; no de- 

 pressible canines or other teeth on vomer ; gill-opening about diameter of eye ; 

 dorsal inserted in front of gill-opening one-third distance from it to front of eye ; 

 height of dorsal more than one-third depth of body ; height of anal about equal 

 to eye. 



Ground color reddish brown ; head, body, tail, and fins covered with large 

 roundish pale spots, usually larger but sometimes smaller than eye ; the spots are 

 plainer and in three to four fairly definite rows on tail, and there are four to five 

 indefinite rows on body ; the spots on sides and top of head are numerous, but much 

 smaller than the large ones on body ; chin, breast, and belly apparently without 

 spots and not much paler than the upper ground color ; some blackish about gill- 

 opening, in the thoracic creases, and at angle of mouth ; dorsal with two rows of 

 pale spots, anal with one row ; margin of dorsal blackish between pale spots. 



One specimen 31 inches long from Takao. 



71. Evenchelys macrurus (Bleeker). 



One specimen forty-three inches long from Takao ; Kotosho (Jordan & Ever- 

 mann). 



Family BELONID/E. 



72. Tylosurus caudimaculatus (Cuvier). 



One specimen twelve inches long from Takao. 



73. Tylosurus coromandelicus (Van Hasselt). 

 (Native name Ian.) 



Two specimens, one twenty inches, and the other sixteen inches long, from Takao. 



74. Tylosurus schismatorhynchus (Bleeker). 

 (Native name Ian.) 



One specimen twenty inches long from Takao. 



75. Tylosurus leiurus (Bleeker). 

 Formosa (Jordan & Evermann). 



76. Tylosurus melanostigma (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Formosa (Jordan & Evermann). 



Family HEMIRAMPHID.E. 



77. Hemiramphus far (Forskal). 



Two specimens, respectively ten and twelve inches long, from Takao. Formosa 

 (Jordan & Evermann). 



