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Note. DAY described (Fishes of India 4, p. 515) under the 

 name of H. Georgii a species, which is not identical with the 

 one described by CuyiER & VALENCIENNES. DAY did evidently 

 so after examination of what be believed to be the type of 

 georgii. He says: "DussUMiER's specimen of H. Georgii from 

 Mahe is still preserved at Paris; it has D. 15" etc. At the 

 end of the description of H. georgii in the Histoire Naturelle 

 des Poissons we read however: "L' individu que nous venons 

 de decrire est long de dix pouces et demi. II vient de la 

 rade de Bombay. Nous en avons un second exemplaire de 

 meme taille, peche dans la baie de Mahe, de Coromandel." 

 Evidently the french authors made thus a mistake in labelling 

 this second specimen as georgii. DAY gives under the syno- 

 nymy of his species also Hem irhamphus marginatus. This is 

 however still an other species, differing in the number of 

 dorsal and anal rays, in the form of the triangular part of 

 the upper jaw etc. 



2. Hemirhamphus unifasciatus Ranz. 



Hemirhamphus unifasciatus Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sc. Inst. Bonon. V. 



1842, p. 326. 



Hemirhamphus neglectus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 157. 

 Hemirhamphus ^lnifasc^atus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 262. 

 Hemirhamphus unifasciatus Bleeker, Atl. ichth. VI. 1866 1872, p. 59. 

 Hemirhamphus unifasciatus Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 514. 

 Hyporhamphus iinifasdatus Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle 



America, Part I, 1896, p. 720. 

 Hyporhamphus neglect^^s Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (2) XII. Prt. 4, 



1904, p. 501. 

 H emir amp hus neglectus Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish. Washington XXVII. 



1908, p.. 243. 



Hyporhamphus neglectus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia LXXI. 1919, p. 6. 

 Hyporhamplius unifasciatus Fowler, 1. c. 



D. 2.12 13; A. 2.12 14; P. 1. 10 II ; V. 1.5 ; L.I. 50 55. 



Compressed, the breadth of the body going 1.2 1.4 in its 

 height. Height about 10, u 12 in length with caudal. Head 

 from tip of upper jaw to branchial opening 3.2 in trunk. 

 Entire head about 2.7, about 3.2 in length with caudal. Length 

 of lower jaw beyond extremity of upper jaw 5.7 6 in length, 

 6.8 7.1 in length with caudal. Eye 1.4 1.5 in postorbital 

 part of head and about equal to interorbital space. Triangular 

 part of upper jaw, formed by intermaxillaries, broader than 

 long. Praeorbital somewhat longer than high, shorter than eye. 



