Color in the fresh example, pale bluish-silvery above, the scales 

 on the back having darker edges. Lower parts of sides and 

 belly silvery-white. Upper part of head deep blue, side silvery. 

 Beak bluish-black. 



I have used the name " Slender Garfish " because of the highly 

 attenuated form. In the Hawaiian Islands, where the species is 

 used commonly for food, it is known under the name of " Iheihe."* 



MEASUREMENTS OF Enleptorhamphus lonyirostri* (Cuvier). 



Length overall (in millimeters) 



Length overall Jrom point of snout 



Length from point of snout to base of caudal Jin ... 



Length of head in hundredths of length from point of snout to 



base of caudal ... ... ... ... 



Length of caudal fin ... ... ... ... ... 



Greatest height of body 

 Height through centre of eye 

 Least height of caudal peduncle .. 

 Longitudinal diameter of eye 



Width through centre of each eye ... ... ... 



Width at insertion of pectoral fin 

 Width above insertion of ventral fin 

 Width below first dorsal ray 

 Width at least height of caudal ... 



Length of snout 



Length of postorbital portion of head ... 



From point of snout to insertion of pectoral fin 



From point of snout to insertion of ventral fin 



From point of snout to beginning of dorsal fin... 



From point of snout to beginning of anal fin ... 



Length of base of dorsal fin 



Length of base of anal fin ... 



From base of last dorsal ray to vertical from base of caudal fin 



From base of last anal ray to vertical from base of caudal fin 



From base of caudal to bottom of caudal cleft... 



Length of pectoral fin 



Length of ventral fin . . 



Longest ray in dorsal fin ... 



Longest ray in anal fin 



Length of upper caudal lobe 



"457 

 364 

 316 



14-6 



15-2 



8-2 



66 



2-8 



4-4 



6-0 



4-4 



4-1 



38 



1 9 



47 



54 



17-1 



59-5 



C6-8 



71-2 



27-8 



24 1 



57 



5-7 



5-4 



28-5 



4-4 



11-4 



9-8 



9'2 



Both tip of lower jaw and end of lower caudal lobe slightly broken. 



Jordan and Evermann : Bull. U. H. F. C. xxiii (1), 1903 (1905), p. 128. 



