JORDAN AND JORDAN: FISHES OP HAWAII. 19 



Family XXXVIII. . EXOCOETID^ (Flying-fishes). 

 FoDiATOR^Jordan and Meek. 



120. Fodiator rostratus (Gimther). (J. & E., p. 131.) 



One example taken in Hawaii. The species seems to differ from Fodiator 

 acutus of the Panama region in the subvertical mouth and the shorter lower jaw 

 It is nearer Fodiator than Parexocoetus. 



EvoLANTiA Snodgrass and Heller. 



121. Evolantia microptera (Cuvier and Valenciennes). (J. & E., i). 130.) 

 Scarce about Hawaii. 



Parexocoetus Bleeker. 



122. Parexocoetus brachypterus Solander. Pukiku. (J. & E., p. 131.) 

 Veiy common, not exceeding seven inches. 



, ExoccETUS Linnseus. 

 (Ventral fin short, median.) 



Exocoetiis Linnffius, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, p. 316. Type Exoccetus volitans, 

 lately shown to be based on an example of the species called Halocypselus 

 evolans (Linnaeus). 



Halocypselus Weinland, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., VI, 1858, p. 385 {meso- 

 gaster = evolans = volitans). 



123. Exoccetus volitans Linnaeus. (J. & E., p. 132.) 



By a confusion incident to correction of syonymy the plate on page 133, Jordan 

 and Evermann, named "Exoccetus volitans," represents the species sometimes 

 called by that name, = Exoccetus rubescens Rafinesque, not the true E. volitans, 

 which has short ventral fins. 



ExoNAUTEs Jordan and Evermann. 

 (Anal fin not shorter than dorsal.) 



124. Exonautes gilberti Snyder. (J. & E., p. 134.) 



Rare. The species from near Samoa, identified by Jordan and Scale as 

 Exoccetus unicolor Cuvier and Valenciennes, figured on page 209 of the "Fishes of 

 Samoa," is very close to Exonautes gilberti and perhaps the same. In the speci- 

 mens of both, as figured, is the parasitic copepod Penella, to which a parasitic 

 barnacle (Conchoderma) is attached. 



