1508 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



reaching to tips of ventrals, which reach past vent ; origin of ventral spine 

 about 6 scales behind the vertical from posterior edge of pectoral base. 

 Caudal short, deeply forked, the upper lobe the longer. Olivaceous, with 

 brassy reflections and dusky points ; fins plain. Length 18 inches. The 

 largest and least handsome of the family, and the one of most value as 

 food. Coast of California, from San Francisco to San Diego, rather com- 

 mon. (ro^orijS, the East Indian archer fish; from some obscure resem- 

 blance.) 



Rhacochilus toxotes, AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, May, 1854, 367, San Francisco ; GiRARD, 



U. S. Pac. K. K. Surv., x, Fishes, 188, 1858. 

 Pachylabrus variegatus, GIBBONS, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vu, July, 1854, 126, San 



Francisco. 



Ditrema toxotes, GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes, iv, 247. 

 Ehacochilus toxotes, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 596; EIGENMANN & ULREY, I. c., 390. 



611. HYPSURUS, Alexander Agassiz. 

 Hypsurus, ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vm, 1861, 133 (caryi). 



Body oblong, compressed, moderately elevated, tapering abruptly to a 

 very slender and short peduncle. Head moderate, rather acute, lower jaw 

 included. Lips rather large, entire, the lower with a frenum. Teeth few, 

 conical, blunt, in 1 series, those of the upper jaw sometimes partly in 2 

 series. Gill rakers slender, rather short. Pharyngeals normal; anterior 

 and lateral teeth of lower pharyngeals small, bluntly conic ; a triangular 

 posterior patch of larger teeth, all but the posterior row truncate, the pos- 

 terior row conic. Dorsal fin rather low, the spines all lower than the soft 

 rays. Caudal broad and short, widely forked. Anal fin extremely short, 

 although many-rayed, beginning far back, the length of its base being 

 less than \ the distance between its first spine and the root of the ven- 

 trals, the abdomen being therefore extremely long. Scales rather small. 

 Vertebrae 17 -f 20. This genus is distinguished from Embiotoca chiefly by 

 the great length of the abdominal region which is caused by the increased 

 number of abdominal vertebrae. One species, of small size and brilliant 

 coloration, (vtyi, high; ovpd, tail.) 



1895. HYPSURUS CARYI (Agassiz). 



(BUGARA.) 



Head 3; depth 2. D. X or XI, 23; A. Ill, 24; lateral line 71. Body 

 elliptical, compressed, the ventral outline comparatively straight; head 

 depressed above eye; snout sharp; premaxillaries on the level of the 

 lower margin of pupil, lower jaw included; maxillary nearly reaching 

 front of eye, included under preorbital; fourth to sixth dorsal spines 

 highest, lower than the soft rays; gill rakers slender, short, 7+13. Pec- 

 toral long, reaching past tips of ventrals, which reach way from their 

 base to front of anal; origin of ventral spine about 8 scales behind the 

 vertical from the posterior end of pectoral base. Anal very short, the 

 third spine longest, about as long as the first rays, far back, its rays 

 slender and crowded close together, its origin opposite posterior third of 



