86 THE SHORE FISHES. 
One specimen 276 inches long from Station 4710, Lat. 9°, 30’ S.; Long. 
95°, 83’ W. 
Back and top of head light brown, thickly punctulated with darker; lower 
part of head and body silvery; pectoral dusky with a broad pale terminal margin 
and with a trace of a pale bar extending partly across fin, occupying the second 
4th of fin reckoning from its base; trace of dusky transverse bar on body under 
posterior part of dorsal and extending somewhat on dorsal and anal fins; a 
dusky area at base of caudal fin. 
Another specimen 1} inches long from Station 4720, Lat. 7°, 13’ S.; Long. 
1025 325i 
Top of head and back to slightly beyond origin of dorsal purplish brown; 
lower parts pale, somewhat punctulate with darker; dusky area of back just 
back of pectoral fin extending as a broad faint bar nearly to ventral; a broad 
dark brown vertical bar on body under posterior part of dorsal extending some- 
what on dorsal and on anal fins; in front of this a pale bar of about same width 
separating it from the body color anteriorly, and behind the dark bar another 
pale bar separating it from the dark area at base of caudal; ventrals pale; dorsal 
and anal pale, except from the extension of the dark bar; caudal pale; pectoral 
pale with a broad black triangular area covering about half of anterior margin 
of fin, apex of triangle on membrane between 6th and 7th ray; tips of all the 
rays pale, the membrane between the first and second rays punctulated with 
dark. 
Two specimens, # and 13 inches long, from Station 4718, Lat. 5°, 32.4 S.; 
Long. 99°, 32.2 W. 
These specimens are similar in color to the last, as are also two specimens $ 
and 1 inches long from Station 4729, Lat. 7°, 15’ N.; Long. 82°, 8’ W. 
Two specimens 1§ and 2% inches long from Station 4640, Lat. 0°, 39.4 N.; 
Long. 88°, 11’ W. The smaller specimen has a long black barbel; ventral 
nearly all black. The larger has a long barbel, dusky with black tips; ventral 
like that in specimens from Station 4615. 
Cypsilurus poecilopterus (Cuvinr & VALENCIENNES). 
Jorpan & Seae, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 210, fig. 14. 
Exocoetus poeciloplerus Cuv. & Vau., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1846, 19, p. 81 (112). Ginruer, Fische der 
Siidsee, 1909, 8, p. 368. 
One specimen {§ of an inch long from Station 4686, Lat. 18°, 47.1’ S.; 
Long. 89°, 26’ W. 
Anal 12; dorsal 13 or 14 (broken and count uncertain). Cuvier and 
