JORDAN AND RICHARDSON: FISHES OF THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA 175 
scent steep to eye; snout compressed laterally to scarcely more than the width of 
the interorbital space, which is 3 in width of head; mouth large, the eye being 
midway between its angle and tip of snout; teeth in single series in jaws; no de- 
pressible canines or other teeth on vomer; gill-opening about diameter of eye ; 
dorsal inserted in front of gill-opening one-third distance from it to front of eye ; 
height of dorsal more than one-third depth of body ; height of anal about equal 
to eye. 
Ground color reddish brown; head, body, tail, and fins covered with large 
roundish pale spots, usually larger but sometimes smaller than eye; the spots are 
plainer and in three to four fairly definite rows on tail, and there are four to five 
indefinite rows on body ; the spots on sides and top of head are numerous, but much 
smaller than the large ones on body; chin, breast, and belly apparently without 
Spots and not much paler than the upper ground color; some blackish about gill- 
Opening, in the thoracic creases, and at angle of mouth; dorsal with two rows of 
pale spots, anal with one row; margin of dorsal blackish between pale spots. 
One specimen 31 inches long from Takao. 
71. Evenchelys macrurus (Bleeker). 
One specimen forty-three inches long from Takao; Kotosho (Jordan & Hyer- 
mann). 
Family BELONID®, 
72. Tylosurus caudimaculatus (Cuvier). 
One specimen twelve inches long from Takao. 
73. Tylosurus coromandelicus (Van Hasselt). 
(Native name O lan.) 
Two specimens, one twenty inches, and the other sixteen inches long, from Takao. 
74. Tylosurus schismatorhynchus (Bleeker). 
(Native name O lan.) 
One specimen twenty inches long from Takao. 
75. Tylosurus leiurus (Bleeker). 
Formosa (Jordan & Evermann). 
76. Tylosurus melanostigma (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Formosa (Jordan & Evermann). 
Family HEMIRAMPHID. 
77. Hemiramphus far (Forskal). 
Two specimens, respectively ten and twelve inches long, from Takao. Formosa 
(Jordan & Evermann). 
