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silvery below. Pectorals blackish in their upper two thirds, the 

 rest being hyaline, reddish at the axil. Outer ventral rays 

 more or less grayish. Caudal dusky. Length 240 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Batavia) ; Celebes (Makassar); Flores!; 

 Ambon!; Banda ! ; Misol. 



15. Cypsilurus nigripennis (C. V.) 



Exocoetus nigripeti/tis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons, XIX. 1846, p. 108. 

 Exocoetus nigripetJiiis Bleaker, Act. Soc. Scient. Indo-Neerl. II. 1857, 8ste Bijdr. 



Amboina p. 86. — Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 120. — Atl. ichth. VI. 



1866 — 1872, p. 70. 



D. II — 13; A. 8—10; P. 1. 14— 15 ; V. 6; L.l. 45 — 50. 



Somewhat compressed, the breadth of the body going about 

 1.5 in its height. Height about 5, 6.5 in length with caudal. 

 Head 4.3, 5.4 in length with caudal. Eye a little more than 

 twice in head, somewhat longer than postorbital part of head 

 and about equal to interorbital space, which is concave. Snout 

 very short, less than half diameter of eye. No chinbarbel. 

 Teeth in jaws very small. Palate edentulous. Origin of anal 

 opposite to about the 5th dorsal ray. Pectorals reaching origin 

 of anal. Ventrals much longer than head, reaching to end of 

 anal, their origin about midway between caudal and hindborder 

 of eye. Caudal deeply forked. Colour of preserved specimens 

 brownish, silvery below. Fins blackish, caudal yellowish with 

 indications of an irregular dark crossbar at its base. Length 

 75 mm. [Specimens of Bleeker's collection in the Leiden 

 Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore; Ambon; Ternate; Gebe, New Gui- 

 nea. — Pinang, Indian Ocean to Zanzibar and Madagascar. 



Note. This species is most probably the young stage of 

 some other species. The species described by Cantor (Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIIL 1850, p. 1233) and GOnther (Cat. 

 Brit. Mus. VL 1866, p. 298) as nigripennis are the young ones 

 of another species, where the anal is opposite to the dorsal 

 (LtiTKEN, Vidensk. Meddel. naturh. Foren. 1876, p. 112). 



16. Cypsilurus brevis n. sp. 



D. 12 — 13; A.9; P. 1. 14; V.6; L.l. 49—52; L.tr. j^. 



3 

 Compressed, the breadth of the body going about 1.7 in 



