EXOCOETIDAE. 85 
Hemiramphus saltator Gitpert & Starks. 
Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 53, pl. 9, fig. 16. 
Two specimens 2 and 3 inches long from Station 4596, off Acapulco, 
M. C. Z. 29591 (1 specimen). 
These are provisionally placed here as they agree very well in most respects. 
In spirits the color of the beak is black; a broad dark brown band running from 
snout through eye to base of caudal, above which the body is lighter brown; 
sides of head from and below eye across the opercle and side of belly abruptly 
silvery; two dusky stripes along belly beginning faintly at throat, increasing 
in intensity to ventral fin and terminating near front of anal where they merge 
into the dusky color of that part of body; pectoral pale, dorsal dusky posteriorly ; 
ventrals pale with large black area covering nearly entire base of fin and nar- 
rowing as it continues on inner edge to last third of fin. 
EXOCOETIDAE. 
Exocoetus volitans LInNe. 
Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 316. Snoparass & Heuer, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1905, 6, p. 351. 
One specimen 23 inches long from Station 4615, Lat. 9°, 7’ N.; Long. 85°, 
cet W. 
Dorsal 12; anal 13. Barbel at chin black, nearly as long as head; insertion 
of ventrals about midway between tip of lower jaw and base of next to last anal 
ray; ventrals short, not nearly reaching anal; pectorals long, reaching nearly, 
to fork of caudal; upper pectoral ray simple, other rays branched; caudal lobes 
unequal, lower longer than head; pectoral black, the lower three or four rays 
pale, tips of others probably white; pectoral with a large black spot near base 
of inner rays, another one near the end of the fin at the outer end of the same rays; 
caudal pale with some dusky punctulations on lower half of lower lobe; mem- 
branes of dorsal and anal black, especially posteriorly; back brownish; belly 
silvery; traces of four broad, dark cross-bands on body, most distinct poste- 
riorly, the second of these bands immediately in front of dorsal, the 3rd extending 
from base of 6th to base of 10th dorsal rays inclusive; 4th on base of caudal 
peduncle; chin and snout with dusky punctulations. 
The following specimens, with the two exceptions noted, differ somewhat 
from the preceding in color and also in not having a barbel on chin, but they 
agree in position and length of ventral and in the number of dorsal and anal 
rays. 
