14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. 62. 
Family HEMIRAMPHIDAE. 
HEMIRAMPHUS FAR (Forskil). 
Head from upper jaw tip, 43; depth, 6$; D. 1, 11, occasionally n, 
12; A. m1, 9, rarely 1, 10; scales, 50 in lateral line to caudal base; 
38 to 40 predorsal scales; snout, 2% to 2f in head from upper jaw 
tip; eye, 32 to 4; maxillary, 34 to 32; interorbital, 34 to 32. Five 
examples, 288 to 500 mm. Takao. 
DERMOGENYS PUSILLUS Kuhl and Van Hasselt. 
Head from upper jaw tip, 4; depth, 62; D. 1, 8; A. 1, 13; P.1, 9; 
V. 1, 5; scales, 40? from gill-opening above to caudal base and 4 
more or latter; 32? predorsal scales; snout, 32 in head; eye, 32; 
maxillary, 24; interorbital, 23; first branched dorsal ray, 24; longest 
anal ray, 14; least depth of caudal peduncle, 23; caudal, 12; pectoral 
14; ventral, 24. 
Body moderately long, well compressed, deepest about midway in 
length. Caudal peduncle long as deep. 
Head well compressed, flattened, sides narrowly convergent below, 
width 24 in its length from upper jaw tip. Upper jaw depressed, 
short or broadly triangular, length about four-fifths its width at 
front of eyes. Eye large, slightly less than snout, impinges on upper 
profile and hind edge slightly behind middle in head length as 
measured from snout tip. Mouth with short horizontal gape, about 
two-thirds of eye. Maxillary largely concealed by preorbital, reaches 
eye. Narrow series of small uniform conic teeth in lower jaw basally, 
none in upper. Nostrils minute. Interorbital shghtly concave. 
Gill-opening extends forward opposite front pupil edge. Gill- 
rakers, 2+16?, short weak points, about one-fourth of gill-filaments, 
which half length of eye. Isthmus narrow slender frenum. 
Scales rather large, cycloid, moderately imbricated, basal striae 
5 and circuli about 17, complete. Head scaly, single row of large 
scales on cheek, and opercles scaled. Caudal base with 5 rows of 
scales. Lateral line incomplete, at least tubes obsolete or irregular 
behind ventrals. 
Dorsal origin at last fourth in space between hind edge of gill- 
opening and caudal base, and last ray reaches latter. Anal inserted 
a little in advance of dorsal origin, larger than dorsal, though last 
ray falling well short of caudal base. Caudal rounded (edges dam- 
aged). Pectoral high, reaches three-fifths to ventral. Ventral 
placed midway between preopercle ridge and caudal base, reaches 
slightly less than half way to anal. Vent about last fourth in space 
between ventral and anal origins. 
Color in alcohol, faded dull brownish, nearly uniform. Upper 
surface of head and down middle of back dusted with dusky specks 
