4A2 Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
their edges, with minute teeth ; in other respects the species, in their fins, vis- 
cera, and general aspect, resemble the Gar-fish. 
1. Hemiramphus Brasiliensis, Biuocu. 
Upper part of the body blue, paler along the sides, and silvery upon the abdomen. 
Head a clear blue and silvery ; tail yellow and bluish; beak brown and deep blue. Body 
three times the length of the lower jaw; pectoral fins shorter than the half of the lower 
jaw ; posterior fins almost equal. Caudal deeply cleft. The upper mandible shorter than 
the semidiameter of the eye. The inferior very long and flexible. Scales large. 
D.14. P.10. V.6. A.12. C.20to 24. Length, 12 or 15 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, near Guadaloupe and Martinique, Lesueur. 
Called ‘‘ Balao,’’ at Guadaloupe and Martinique. 
Esox Brasiliensis, Buocn, 391. 
Ke Ee Lin., Syst. Nat., p. 517. 
ae oe Piper, Browne’s Jamaica, p. 443, pl. 45, fig. 2. 
cs sé Brazilian Pike, SHaw’s Gen. Zool., v. p. 109. 
Esox marginatus (?), Lacepepg, v. pl. 7, fig. 2. 
Hemiramphus marginatus, Lesveur, Journ. Acad. Nat, Sc., 1. p. 135, 
Hemiramphus Brasiliensis (Cuy.), Grirrity’s Cuy., x. p. 395. 
2. Hemiramphus balao, Lesvevr. 
Color a little deeper than that of preceding, and tail bluish. Body four times the length 
of the lower jaw; pectoral fin a third part shorter than the lower mandible ; anal fin as 
long as the dorsal. 
D. 14. P.10. V.6. A. 12. €.20to 24. Tength, (?). 
Caribbean Sea, near Guadaloupe, Martinique, and St. Domingo, Lrsvrvr. 
Also called ‘* Balao.”’ 
Hemiramphus balao, Lesveur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc., 1. p. 136. 
FAMILY XIX. FISTULARIDA. 
Characterized by a long tube in the fore part of the cranium, formed by the 
prolongation of the ethmoid, vomer, preopercula, interopercula, pterygoideals, 
and tympanals, and at the extremity of which is the mouth, composed, as 
usual, of the intermaxillaries, maxillaries, and the palatine and mandibulary 
bones. Their intestine has neither great inequalities nor many folds, and their 
ribs are short or wanting. Some of them, the Fistularie, have a cylindrical 
body ; in others, the Centrisci, it is oval and compressed. 
This family concluded the order Acanthopterygii in the ‘‘ Régne Animal.” 
