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dorsal ray, its base not much shorter than that of dorsal. 

 Origin of dorsal separated by about 30 scales from occiput. 

 Pectorals with the two first rays undivided, the first about 

 half as long as the third, the second about two thirds of third ray. 

 Pectorals reaching to base of caudal. Ventrals much longer 

 than head, reaching to end of anal; their origin scarcely nearer 

 to branchial opening than to base of caudal. Caudal deeply 

 forked. Colour of preserved specimens brownish above, silvery 

 below. Pectorals blackish, with a light hindmargin. Ventrals 

 black in the middle, hyaline along the margins. Dorsal and 

 anal hyaline. Caudal dusky. Length 275 mm. 



Habitat: Java. — China, tropical and subtropical Atlantic, 

 Mediterranean. 



Note. LiJTKEN l.s.c. examined specimens from Java, from 

 which the author says, that they did differ in details from 

 Exocoetus bracJiycephahis Gthr. It is possible that these speci- 

 mens, the only ones recorded with certainty from the indo- 

 australian Archipelago, belonged to the allied C ^'"//^-?r// Snyder 

 (Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXII. 1904, p. 522). 



We examined a specimen of C. rondeleti (C.V.) in the collec- 

 tion of the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, without locality, 

 but probably from the indo-australian Archipelago. 



