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one. Origin of ventrals a little nearer to base of caudal than 

 to axil of pectorals. Caudal forked. Yellowish, back darker, 

 each scale having a dark brown spot. A narrow silvery stripe 

 along the sides, bordered above by a blackish line. Fins hyaline, 

 dorsal and caudal dusky. Ventrals often with a black base. 

 Length over 300 mm. 



N o m. indig. : Djulong-djulong (Malay Batavia), Mauru 

 (Ambon). 



Habitat: Singapore; Pulu Weh ! ; Sumatra (Atjeh!, Telok- 

 betong, Benkulen, Ulakan, Triaman) ; Nias ! ; Batu ; Banka; Java 

 (Batavia !, Prigi) ; Java sea ! ; Cocos-Keeling Islands ; Bali ; Sumba !; 

 Timor; Bawean ; Celebes (Makassar, Badjoa, Kema); Sangi 

 Islands!; Ternate; Obi; Buru; Ambon; Banda. — From the 

 Red Sea and east coast of Africa to the Riu-Kiu Islands and 

 the Society Islands. 



In sea. 



8. Hemirhamphus far (Forsk.) [Fig. 55, p. 145]. 



Esox far Forskal, Descript. Anim. 1775, p. 67. 



Hemiramphus commersonii Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2. ed. vol. 2, p. 286. 

 Hemiramphus far Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische Roth. Meer. 1835, p. 74. 

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



1846, p. 28. 

 Hemiramphus Commersonii Bleeker, Yeih. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Snoekachtige 



Visschen, p. 17. 

 Hemirhamphus far Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. i866, p. 146. 

 Hemirhamphus commersonii Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 271. 

 Hemirhamphus far Bleeker, Atl. ichth. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 54. 

 Hemiramphus far Klunzinger, Abh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien XXI. 187 1, p. 582. 

 H emir haviphus far Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 516. 

 Hemiramphus far Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. XXV. 



1902, p. 329. 

 Hemirhamphus far Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 357. 

 Hemiramphus commersoni Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. vol. 42, 191 2, p. 494. 

 Hemirhamphus far Mc Culloch, Check-list offish of N. S. Wales, Prt. II. 1919, p. 31. 



D. 2. II — 2.12; A. 1.9 — I.I I; P. I.II — I.I2; V. 1. 5; L.l. 50— 52. 



Compressed, the breadth of the body going 1.4 — 1.8 in its 

 height. Height 6.6 — 7.4, J.j — 8.6 in length with caudal. Head 

 from tip of upper jaw to branchial opening 2.9 — 3.1 in trunk. 

 Entire head 2.3 — 2.4, 2.7 in length with caudal. Length of 

 lower jaw beyond extremity of upper jaw 4 — 4.3, about 5 in 

 length with caudal. Eye 1.4 — 1.6 in postorbital part of head 

 and somewhat less than interorbital space. The triangular part 

 of the upper jaw, formed by the intermaxillaries, is much broader 



