264 9° REPORT—1845, 
SAT MD 
Fam. SCOMBERESOCIDA. 
BELONE CAUDIMACULA, Cuv. Régn. An. ii. p. 285. Kuddera A., Russell, 
176. Icon. Reeves, 3.33; Hardw. Malac. 135. Chinese name, Ho ¢sin, 
“ Stork’s bill” (Reeves, Birch) ; Hok tsam (Bridgem. Chrest. 57). 
Hab. China, Canton (Reeves). Penang, and a salt-water lake near Calcutta (Hardwicke). 
River Brunai in Borneo. Port Essington, North Australia, 
BELonE ciconitA, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, 186; Hardw. Malae. 134. 
This drawing does not correspond with Russell’s figure of the Wohkla kuddera 175, nor with 
the two Belones described by Riippell in the ‘Neue Wirlbethiere,’ nor with figures of any other 
species that we have met with. The two jaws are equal, or very nearly so, and when mea- 
sured to the front of the orbit, their length is contained four times and three-quarters in the 
whole length of the fish. The anal is long, the dorsal moderately so, and commencing over 
the second quarter of the anal, it seems to approach a little nearer to the caudal than that fin. 
The caudal is slightly lunate at the end with the lower lobe rather the most prominent. The 
back is green, the sides silvery with a purplish tint. Scales are distinctly represented in the 
green upper part of the body, which is separated from the nacry sides by a lateral line, but 
no inferior lateral line or keel is shown in the figure. 
Hab. Chinese seas. Canton. 
HeEMIRAMPHUS INTERMEDIUS, Cantor, Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 30. Icon. 
Reeves, 167; Hardw. Malac. 129, 133. Chinese name, Cheung tin tsam 
(Bridgem. Chrest. 80); “ Long-headed borer” (Reeves). Had. B. 9; 
D. 114; A. 1]17; C. 153; P.11; V. 1|5. (Chin. Spec.) 
This species differs at first sight from H. longirostris (Cuv. et Russell, 178), and from H. 
brevirostris (Idem et Russ. 177), in the relative size of the lower jaw, being less than that of 
the one and longer than that of the other. From H. gamberur (Riipp. Neue Wirlb. 74; La- 
cép. v. pl. 7. f. 2), it is distinguished by some differences in the numbers of the rays as well 
as by the comparative length of the lower jaw. We have received specimens of infermedius 
both from Chusan and Canton, but all of them have lost many of their scales, and also in 
some degree their proper shape, by maceration in spirits. A section of the body has the form 
of a thin wedge, broadest near the back, which is rounded by the swelling muscles of the 
sides, and attenuated towards the acute belly. There is no appearance of there ever 
having been much projection at the inferior lateral line, so as to render the section quadran- 
gular. This line runs near the edge of the belly from the lower part of the operculum nearly 
to the caudal fin. It is formed by a simple or in some places a forked tube on each scale. 
The preorbitar is sub-elliptical, with an undulated disc and a minute central umbo. Its 
anterior edge describes the quadrant of a circle ; its posterior one is much less curved. The 
dorsal and anal are opposite to each other at their commencement, and the former reaches a 
little nearer to the caudal, though it has fewer rays than the anal. The lower lobe of the 
caudal is the longest, as usual. The back is greenish, the sides silvery, and there is a broad 
lateral stripe more brilliantly silvery than the rest, which dilates between the dorsal and anal, 
The following measurements furnish the comparative lengths of the several parts. Length from 
the point of the upper jaw to end of caudal, 5-25 inches. From ditto to gill-opening, 0°91 
inch. From ditto to anus, 3°38 inches. Length of upper jaw, 0:2 inch. Length from point of 
lower jaw to end of caudal, 6°35 inches. From ditto to angle of mouth, 1°38 inch. From 
ditto to fore-edge of orbit, 16 inch. From ditto to gill-opening, 2°18 inches. 
Hab. Chinese seas. Canton. Chusan. 
Exoc&Tus voLANs, Solander, MSS. Bib. Banks. Jcon. Parkinson, 110. Bib. 
Banks. Rad. D.12; A.13; C.152; P.15; V.6. All jointed. Length 
of specimen 53 inches. 
A specimen of this fish was brought from China by Sir Edward Belcher. It is probably 
the same species with the evolans of Bloch (398) ; but in his figure the ventrals are as near 
to the end of the snout as to the beginning of the anal, while in the Chinese specimen the 
distance from the snout to the ventrals, when carried backwards, reaches past the middle of 
the anal; in other respects there appears to be little difference. The same officer brought 
several specimens of young flying fish from the Chinese seas, evidently of the same species, 
but none of them exceeding 24 inches in length. All these have the profile of the face more 
curved, with a variable degree of gibbosity of the nape. They have also two brown spots on 
the top of the occiput, formed by a congeries of small specks, All the specimens are so much 
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