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symphysial knob, which projects beyond the upper jaw. Jaws 

 protractile. Teeth in jaws, on vomer, palatines, pterygoids and 

 tongue. Dorsal opposite to anal, high, convex. Pectorals mode- 

 rately developed, reaching to middle of dorsal. Ventrals mode- 

 rately developed, their origin about midway between point 

 of snout and base of caudal. Scales large. Lateral line running 

 low down. Gillrakers well developed, Gillopenings wide. 

 Distribution: Indie, Pacific and Atlantic. 



I. Parexocoetus brachypterus (Rich.) [Fig. 60, p. 175]. 



Exococtus brachypterus (Solandcr jManuscf.) Richardson, Report British Assoc. 



at Cambridge 1845, London 1846, p. 265. 

 Exocoetus inento Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons XIX. 1846, p. 124. 

 Exocoetus hillianns Gosse, Nat. Sojourn Jamaica 1851, p. II. 

 Exocoetus mento Rleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Snoekacht. Vissch. p. 21. 

 Parexocoetus metito Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 126. — Atl. 



ichth. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 77. 

 Exocoetus brachypterus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 280. 

 Exocoetus mento Giinther, 1. c. p. 281. 

 Exocoetus hillianus Giinther, 1. c. p. 284. 

 Exocoetus atrodorsalis Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XX (3) 1867, p. 67. — 



Zool. Record 1871, p. 109. 

 Exocoetus gryllns Klunzinger, Abh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, XXI. 1871, p. 586. 

 Exocoetus hillianics Liitken, Vidensk. Meddel. naturh. Foren, Kjobenhavn, 1876, 



P- 397- — Resume p. 104. 

 Exocoetus mento Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 520. 

 Parexocoetus viesogaster Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North America I. 1896, p. 728. 

 Parexocoetus brachypterus Jenkins, Bull, U. S. Fish Comm. XXII. 1904, p. 435. 

 Parexocoetus brachypterus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXIII. 



1905, p. 131. 

 Parexocoetus uienio F^owler, I'roc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Philadelphia (2) LVII. 1905, 



p. 494. 

 Parexocoetus mento Jor4an t\: Scale, Bull. Bur. of Fisheries Wash. XXVI. 1907, p, g, 

 Parexocoetus mento Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. of Fisheries Wash. XXVII, 



1908, p. 243. 

 Exocoetus brachypterus Giinther, Fische der Sildsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 362. 

 Parexocoetus mento Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische. 191 3, p. 128. 



D. 10 — II; A. 10— II; P. 1. 12; V. 6; L.l. 38 — 40. 



Compressed, the breadth of the body going 1.5 in its height. 

 Height 4.5 to nearly 5, 5.5 — 6 in length with caudal. Head 

 3.8 to somewhat more than 4, about 5 in length with caudal. 

 Eye 2.5 — 3, somewhat less than postorbital part of head, which 

 is equal to the somewhat convex interorbital space. Snout 

 much shorter than eye. Jaws protractile, the lower one with 

 a bony triangular symphysial knob, which projects beyond the 



