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b. No teeth on palate. 



cc. All fins blackish. Size small, probably 

 juvenile form of some other species. 



Height about 5 C. nigripetinis p, 192. 



/3. Fins not blackish. Height 4 — 4.5 . . . C. brevis p. 192. 

 II. Second pectoral ray undivided as the first C. rondeleti p. 193. 



I. Cypsilurus oxycephalus (Blkr.) 



Exocoetiis oxycephalus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 771. — 

 Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 124. — Atl. ichth. VI. 1866— 1872, p. 75. 

 Exococtus oxycephalus Gunther. Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 294. 

 Exo/iautes oxycephalus Ogilby, Ann. ()ueensl. Mus. No. 9, part I, 1908, p. 5. 



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D. 10— II; A. II ; P. 1. 14 — 15; V. 6; L.l. 50 — 56; L. tr. i_. 



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Somewhat compressed, the breadth of the body going about 

 1.3 in its length. Height 5 — 5.6, 6.5 to more than 7 in length 

 with caudal. Head 4 — 4.3, somewhat more than 5 to 5.5 in 

 length with caudal. Eye 3 — 3.4, less than postorbital part of 

 head, which is equal to the somewhat concave interorbital space. 

 Snout somewhat less than eye. Teeth comparatively well deve- 

 loped, simple, conical, pointed, in a single row in the jaws. 

 Palate edentulous. Origin of dorsal above that of anal,.separated 

 by 32 — 35 scales from occiput; its distance from first rudi- 

 mentary ray of caudal equal to or a little less than length of 

 head. Pectorals reaching to posterior part of dorsal or farther. 

 Ventrals somewhat shorter or longer than head, reaching to 

 middle of anal or somewhat farther, their origin about midway 

 between branchial opening and base of caudal. Caudal deeply 

 forked. Colour of preserved specimens brownish or bluish abo\»e, 

 silvery below. Pectorals somewhat dusky, deepening in the 

 posterior half and near the axil into blackish, thus forming an 

 indication of a light transverse band. Middle rays of ventrals 

 and caudal dusky, other fins hyaline. Length 225 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Batavra!); Java-sea!; Celebes (Makassar!); 

 Moluccos!; Aru Islands. — Torres Straits. 



2. Cypsilurus speculiger (C.V.) 



Exococtus speculiger Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons XIX. 1846, p. 94. 

 Exocoetus speculiger Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 122. — Atl. 



ichth. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 76. 

 Exococtus speculiger Gunther, Cat. Brit, Mus. VI. 1866, p. 287. 

 Exocoetus affinis Gunther, ibid. p. 288. 



