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235. Tylosurus coromandelicus (Van Hasselt). New Britain; East Indies. 

 (Belmie melanotus Bleeker.) 



236. Tylosurus urvillei (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Vanicolo. 



237. Tylosurus cancila (Hamilton-Buchanan). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



238. Tylosurus giganteus (Schlegel). A'u. Samoa; Hawaii; Levuka; Oualan; Kandavu; Fiji; 



New Guinea (Macleay); Tubuai Is. (Seale); East Indies; Japan. 



This huge species is rather common about Samoa, as also at Hawaii and throughout the tropical 

 Pacific. We obtained three moderate-sized and a few very large specimens from Samoa. One speci- 

 men leaped from the water to seize a charge of dynamite in the air. 



ATHLENNES Jordan & Fordice. 



239. Athlennes hians (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Hawaii; West Indies; Acapulco. 



Family EXOCCETID.-E. 



HEMIRAMPHUS Cuvier. 



240. Hemiramphus pacificus Steindachner. Hawaii; Samoa. 



Of this species about 20 specimens were taken with the seine near the mouth of the harbor of 

 Pago Pago. The fish is not rare about Hawaii. 



Life colors, light olive, silvery below; a clear blue line bounding silvery stripe above; all dark 

 parts of body with bright blue luster; base of anal with blue stripe; tip of lower jaw deep orange. 



241. Hemiramphus depauperatus Lay & Bennett. Hawaii; Marcus I. 



242. Hemiramphus affinis Giinther. he lai. Samoa; New Hebrides (Seale). 



This species is the common ise or halfbeak, found everywhere in shallow w r ater along the shore at 

 Samoa. It is distinguished from related species by the insertion of the ventrals nearer base of caudal 

 than gill-opening. We have about 50 specimens. None of our specimens have the head quite as long 

 as indicated in Giinther's description. The head with lower jaw is 2.75 to 3 in length to base of caudal. 

 Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, dorsal with blackish-edged blotch ; a dusky spot in pectoral 

 axil; lateral line and a lateral streak bright clear green; membranes of lower jaw dusky, with some 

 red. A specimen from Apia had the lower jaw very red below; two blue streaks on each side of body. 



243. Hemiramphus laticeps Giinther. Fiji. 



244. Hemiramphus limbatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Guam; East Indies. 



245. Hemiramphus argenteus Bennett. Open sea, near equator. 



246. Hemiramphus eclancheri Cuvier & Valenciennes. Marquesas (Cuvier & Valenciennes, Seale). 



247. Hemiramphus quoyi Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea (Macleay) ; East Indies. 



248. Hemiramphus gaimardi Cuvier & Valenciennes. Papua; East Indies. 



249. Hemiramphus commersoni Cuvier. Fiji (Giinther); New Guinea; Shortland I. (Seale); 



East Indies. 



250. Hemiramphus australiensis Seale. Tubuai (Seale). 



251. Hemiramphus cantori Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



252. Hemiramphus acutus Giinther. Barojonga. 



Hemiramphus aeutus Giinther, Proc. Linn. Sot X. S. W. 1841, 071, Rarotonga (Cook Is.). 



253. Hemiramphus melanurus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Solomon 1-. (Seale); East Indies. 



