155 



Madura!; Lombok!; Flores ! ; Rotti ! ; Celebes (Makassar !, Bon- 

 thain, Badjoa); Buton ! ; Sangi-Islands; Ambon!; Aru-Islands; 

 Halmaheira ! ; Waigeu ! ; New Guinea (Doreh, Etna bay !, British 

 New Guinea). — Philippines, Queensland. 



7. Hemirhamphus dussumieri C. V. 



Hi'mirhaiiip/ius erythror'uiclms var. Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. II. 



1821, p. 138. 

 Hemiramphus Dussjimieii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XIX. 



1846, p. 33. 

 Hemiramphus Reynaldi Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1. c. p. 39. 

 Hemiramphus Dusstimierii Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Snoekacht. 



Vissch. p. 18. 

 Hemiramphus dusstimieri Kner, Novara Exp. Fische I. 1865 — 1867, p. 322. 

 Hemirhamphus dussumieri Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 266 (nee Syn.). 

 Hemirhamphus Dussumieri Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschi-. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 150. — - 



Atl. ichth. VI. 1866— 1872, p. 56. 

 Hemiramphus Dussumieri Klunzinger, Abh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, XXI. 1871, 



p. 584. 

 Hemirhamphus reynaldi Day, Fishes of Brit. India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 515. 

 Hyporhamphus dussumierii Evermann & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVI. 1907, p. 58. 

 Hemirhamphus dussumieri Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 354. 

 Hemiramphus dussumieri Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 



Coll. XXVI. No. 7, 1911, p. 251. 

 Hemirhamphus Reynaldi M. Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 191 3, p. 132. 



D. 2.12 — 14; A. 2. II — 13; P. 1, 10 — 12; V. 1.5; L.l. 52 — 56. 



Cylindrical, the height being equal to the depth of the body 

 or nearly so. Height more than 9 — 11, 12 — 13 in length with 

 caudal. Head from tip of upper jaw to branchial opening 

 about 3.5 in trunk. Entire head 2.5 — 2.8, 2.9 — 3.1 in length 

 with caudal. Length of lower jaw beyond extremity of upper 

 jaw 4.5 — 5.2 in length, 5 — 5.9 in length with caudal. Eye 

 I — 1.2 in postorbital part of head and about equal to inter- 

 orbital space. The triangular part of the upper jaw, formed 

 by the intermaxillaries, is broader than long. Teeth rather 

 well developed, in the upper jaw in a band of about 3 rows, 

 in the lower jaw in about 5 rows. The band of the lower jaw 

 tapering a little anteriorly. Origin of anal about opposite to 

 first divided ray of dorsal. Origin of dorsal separated by 34 — '^'j 

 scales from occiput and by 6 or 7 scales from lateral line. 

 Dorsal and anal concave, the anterior rays the longer. Length 

 of base of anal about 1.2 in that of dorsal. Pectorals some- 

 what shorter than head without snout. Ventrals longer than 

 half of pectorals, their last ray not longer than the penultimate 



