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Exocoetus evotans Bloch, AuslSnd. Fische IX. 1795, P- "4- 



Exocoetus voUtans Lacepede, Hist. nat. Poissons V. 1803, p. 401. 



Exocoetus evolans Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons XIX. 1846, p. 138. 



Exocoetus volans Richardson, Report 15th Meeting British Assoc. (1845) 1846, 



p. 264. 

 Exocoetus evolans} Kner, Novara Exp. Fische 1865 — 1867, p. 326. 

 Exocoetus evolans Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. Wien LHI. 1866, p. 470. 

 Exocoetus evolans Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 282. 

 Exocoetus obtusirostris Giinther, 1. c. p. 283. 

 Exocoetus evolans Bleeker, Atl. ichth. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 69. 

 Exocoetus evolans et obtusirostris Liitken, Vidensk. Meddel. Naturh. Foren. 1876, 



p. 395 (resume p. 102). 

 Exocoetus evolans Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 519. 

 Exocoetus volitans Lcinnberg, Bidr. Svenska Akad. XXII. 1896, No. I, p. 25. 

 Halocypselus evolans Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America I, 



1896, p. 729. 

 Exocoettis volitans Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 132 [nee syn. nee fig.]. 

 Exocoetus evolans Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 363. 



D. 13—15; A. 13—14; P. r.13— H; V. 1.5; L.I. 40-43; 



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Somewhat compressed, the breadth of the body going about 

 1,5 in its height. Height 5—5-7, 6.5 — 7.3 in length with caudal. 

 Head 3.8—4, 5 — 5.3 in length with caudal. Eye 3 — 3.5, longer 

 than snout, about 1.5 in postorbital part of head and about 

 1.3 in the somewhat convex interorbital space. No chinbarbel. 

 Teeth very small and scarcely conspicuous. Origin of dorsal 

 and anal opposite to each other or nearly so, that of dorsal 

 separated by 17 — 20 scales from occiput. Pectorals reaching 

 base of caudal or nearly so. Ventrals equal to or a little longer 

 than postorbital part of head, their origin much nearer to tip 

 of snout than to base of caudal. Caudal deeply forked. Colour 

 of preserved specimens brownish above, silvery below. Fins 

 yellowish, pectorals blackish, with the posterior and upper 

 border white. Length 240 mm. 



Habitat: Java!; Java Sea!; West of Saleyer !. — Tropical 

 and subtropical parts of Indie, Pacific and Atlantic, reaching 

 far into temperate regions. Apparently rather rare in the indo- 

 australian Archipelago. 



i) Between D. and A. 



