art.2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—-FOWLER AND BEAN. 12 
ventral origin. Color in alcohol with brown streak along upper 
half of snout posteriorly about wide as pupil and indistinct behind 
eye. Body largely transparent brownish. Iris silvery-white. 
Length, 107 mm. (dorsal spine damaged). Takao. 
We have compared this with an example in the Academy, without 
locality, 120 mm. long (tips damaged), which agrees in having four 
dorsal spines. The pectoral origin is, however, a little more pos- 
terior. 
Family EXOCOETIDAE. 
CYPSELURUS NIGRIPENNIS (Valenciennes). 
Head, 32; depth, 54; D. 1, 9 or 10; A. 1, 9 or 10; snout, 34 to 34 in 
head from upper jaw tip; eye, 24 to 22; maxillary, 34 to 34; inter- 
orbital; 24 to 22. Snout tip to hind preopercle edge equals length 
ot head depth. Snout, two-thirds of eye. Interorbital slightly con- 
cave. Gill-rakers, 7-+-14, lanceolate, nearly long as filaments, which 
23 in eye. Scales with 4 or 5 short basal striae, edge scalloped, cir- 
culi moderately fine. Pectoral reaches middle of dorsal base. Ven- 
tral inserted midway between front eye edge and caudal base, reaches 
second branched. anal ray base. Dorsal origin little before that of 
anal, fin rounded and median rays nearly long as head. Color in 
alcohol largely silvery-white. Back neutral-gray, with portions of 
dorsal, pectoral and ventral black, though last one or two caudal rays 
whitish and pectoral base pale. Caudal and anal pale or whitish. 
Three examples, 57 to 70 mm. long. Takao. 
CYPSELURUS BRACHYSOMA (Bieeker). 
Head, 4; depth, 5; D. 1, 10; A. 1, 8; snout, 4 in head from upper 
jaw tip; eye, 3; maxillary, 4; interorbital, 22. Body well compressed. 
Head width, 13 its length. Snout depressed, length 3 its width, 2 of 
eye. Maxillary about opposite middle in nostril. Interorbital very 
slightly concave. Head depth equals space between snout tip and 
hind preopercle edge. Gill-rakers, 516, lanceolate, about three- 
fourths of filaments which 1? in eye. Scales mostly fallen, about 24 
between hind eye edge and dorsal origin. Scales with 2 or 3 basal 
radiating striae, circuli fine. Pectoral reaches about eighth branched 
dorsal ray base. Ventral inserted midway between hind pupil edge 
and caudal base, reaches about opposite middle in depressed anal 
length. Last dorsal ray long as eye. Color in alcohol apparently 
faded brownish. Pectoral blackish, edges pale or whitish. Dorsal 
and caudal brown. Ventral and anal whitish. Length, 153 mm. 
(caudal tips damaged). Cebu. 
Our example agrees largely with Bleeker’s figure,* except its ven- 
tral is inserted slightly more backward. 
® Atlas Ichth., vol. 6, 1866-72, pl. 1, fig. 1. 
