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symphysial knob, which projects beyond the upper jaw. Jaws 

 protractile. Teeth in jaws, on vomer, palatines, pterygoids and 

 tongue. Dorsal opposite to anal, high, convex. Pectorals mode- 

 rately developed, reaching to middle of dorsal. Ventrals mode- 

 rately developed, their origin about midway between point 

 of snout and base of caudal. Scales large. Lateral line running 

 low down. Gillrakers well developed. Gillopenings wide. 

 Distribution: Indie, Pacific and Atlantic. 



i. Parexocoetus brachypterus (Rich.) [Fig. 60, p. 175]. 



Exocoetits brachypterus (Solander Manuscr.) Richardson, Report British Assoc. 



at Cambridge 1845, London 1846, p. 265. 



Exocoetus mento Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons XIX. 1846, p. 124. 

 Exocoetus hillianus Gosse, Nat. Sojourn Jamaica 1851, p. II. 

 Exocoetus mento Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Snoekacht. Vissch. p. 21. 

 Parexocoetus mento Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 126. Atl. 



ichth. VI. 1866 1872, p. 77. 



Exocoetus brachypterus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 280. 

 Exocoetus mento Gunther, I.e. p. 281. 

 Exocoetus hillianus Gunther, 1. c. p. 284. 

 Exocoetus atrodorsalis Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XX (3) 1867, p. 67. 



Zool. Record 1871, p. 109. 



Exocoetus gryllns Klunzinger, Abh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, XXI. 1871, p. 586. 

 Exocoetus hillianus Llitken, Vidensk. Meddel. naturh. Foren. Kj0benhavn, 1876, 



P 397- Resume p. 104. 



Exocoetus mento Day, Fishes of India 4, 1878 1888, p. 520. 

 Parexocoetus mesogaster Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North America I. 1896, p. 728. 

 Parexocoetus brachypterus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Coinm. XXII. 1904, p. 435. 

 Parexocoetus brachypterus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXIII. 



1905, p. 131. 

 Parexocoetus mento Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (2) LVII. 1905, 



p. 494. 



Parexocoetus mento Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. of Fisheries Wash. XXVI. 1907, p. 9. 

 Parexocoetus mento Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. of Fisheries Wash. XXVII. 



1908, p. 243. 



Exocoetus brachypterus GUnther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 362. 

 Parexocoetus mento Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische. 1913, p. 128. 



D. 10 II; A. 10 II; P. 1. 12; V. 6 ; L.I. 38 40. 



Compressed, the breadth of the body going 1.5 in its height. 

 Height 4.5 to nearly 5, 5.5 6 in length with caudal. Head 

 3.8 to somewhat more than 4, about 5 in length with caudal. 

 Eye 2.5 3, somewhat less than postorbital part of head, which 

 is equal to the somewhat convex interorbital space. Snout 

 much shorter than eye. Jaws protractile, the lower one with 

 a bony triangular symphysial knob, which projects beyond the 



