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Madura!; Lombok!; Flores ! ; Rotti ! ; Celebes (Makassar !, Bon- 

 thain, Badjoa); Buton ! ; Sangi-Islands; Ambon!; Aru-Islands; 

 Halmaheira ! ; Waigeu ! ; New Guinea (Doreh, Etna bay !, British 

 New Guinea). - - Philippines, Queensland. 



7. Hemirhamphus dussumieri C V. 



Hemirhamphus ervthrorinchus var, Lesueuv, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. II. 



1821, p. 138. 

 Hemiramphus Dtissumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat Poissons XIX. 



1846, p. 33. 



Hemiramphus Reynaldi Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1. c. p. 39. 

 Hemiramphus Dussumierii Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Snoekacht. 



Vissch. p. 1 8. 



Hemiramphus dussumieri Kner, Novara Exp. Fische I. 1865 1867, p. 322. 

 Hemirhamphus dussumieri Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 266 (nee Syn.). 

 Hemirhamphus Dussumieri Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 150. 



Atl. ichth. VI. 18661872, p. 56. 

 Hemiramphus Dusstimieri Klunzinger, Abh. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, XXI. 1871, 



p. 584. 



Hemirhamphus reynaldi Day, Fishes of Brit. India 4, 1878 1888, p. 515. 

 Hyporhamphus dussumierii Evermann & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVI. 1907, p. 58. 

 Hemirhamphus dussumieri Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909^.354. 

 Hemiramphus dussumieri Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 



Coll. XXVI. No. 7, 1911, p. 251. 

 Hemirhamphus Reynaldi M. Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 132. 



D. 2.12 14; A. 2. II 13; P. I.IO 12; V. 1-5; L.I. 52 56. 



Cylindrical, the height being equal to the depth of the body 

 or nearly so. Height more than 9 n, 12 13 in length with 

 caudal. Head from tip of upper jaw to branchial opening 

 about 3.5 in trunk. Entire head 2.5 2.8, 2.9 3.1 in length 

 with caudal. Length of lower jaw beyond extremity of upper 

 jaw 4.5 5.2 in length, 5 5.9 in length with caudal. Eye 

 i 1.2 in postorbital part of head and about equal to inter- 

 orbital space. The triangular part of the upper jaw, formed 

 by the intermaxillaries, is broader than long. Teeth rather 

 well developed, in the upper jaw in a band of about 3 rows, 

 in the lower jaw in about 5 rows. The band of the lower jaw 

 tapering a little anteriorly. Origin of anal about opposite to 

 first divided ray of dorsal. Origin of dorsal separated by 34 37 

 scales from occiput and by 6 or 7 scales from lateral line. 

 Dorsal and anal concave, the anterior rays the longer. Length 

 of base of anal about 1.2 in that of dorsal. Pectorals some- 

 what shorter than head without snout. Ventrals longer than 

 half of pectorals, their last ray not longer than the penultimate 



