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rior half of dorsal. Ventrals much longer than head, reaching 

 to posterior half of anal, their origin midway between hind- 

 margin of eye and base of caudal. Caudal deeply forked. 

 Brownish above, silvery below. Pectorals with rows of oblong 

 spots, more or less arranged in transverse rows. Ventrals with 

 black .tips. Barbels black. Length of single specimen known 

 128 mm. 



Habitat: South coast of New Guinea! 



This species is closely allied to E. furcatus, from which it 

 differs by having the pectorals spotted and one or two rays 

 more in the anal. 



8. Cypsilurus poecilopterus (C. V.) [Fig. 63, p. 179]. 



Exocoetus poecilopterus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poiss. XIX. 1846, p. 112. 

 Exocoetus poecilopterus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 291. 

 Cypsilurus poecilopterus Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVI. 1903, p. 542. 

 Cypsilurus poecilopterus Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. Wash. XXV. 1906, p. 210. 

 Exocoetus poecilopterus Gunther, Fische der Sttdsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 368. 

 Cypselurus poecilopterus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. vol. 42, 1912, p. 409. 



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 D. 12; A./ 8; P. 1.1415; V. 6; L.I. 45; L.tr. T. 



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Compressed, the breadth of the body going about 1.5 in 



its height. Height 4.6 to nearly 5. Head about 4, about 5.3 

 in length with caudal. Eye 2.8 3, somewhat less than the 

 postorbital part of head, which is equal to the almost flat 

 interorbital space. Snout somewhat shorter than eye. Teeth 

 tricuspid, in bands of several rows in the jaws and in an elongate 

 patch on each side on the palatines. Origin of anal opposite 

 to 6th dorsal ray. Origin of dorsal separated by 25 27 scales 

 from occiput, its distance from first rudimentary rays of caudal 

 much more than length of head. Pectorals extending to the 

 end of the dorsal or farther. Ventrals much longer than head, 

 almost reaching to end of anal, their origin midway between 

 base of caudal and hindmargin of eye or of praeoperculum. 

 Caudal deeply forked. Colour of preserved specimens brownish 

 above, silvery below. Pectorals with numerous rather large, 

 ovate, black spots, distinctly arranged in transverse bands, but 

 absent in lower part of the fin. Other fins hyaline, caudal 

 dusky. Dorsal and ventrals sometimes with a black patch. 

 Length 250 mm. 



Habitat: Flores!; Banda. -- New Britain, Samoa, Japan. 



