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about 8 in beak (broken at tip), to front margin of eye; eye rounded, as deep as long; mouth 2 in eye; 
teeth in small villiform bands in the jaws and on the vomer; tongue rather thick, flattened, fleshy; 
and a little free in front and around the edges; nasal cavity somewhat small, above the eye in front, 
and with a well developed fleshy flap; interorbital space broad and flattened and the top of the head 
posteriorly convex; gill-opening large, the isthmus a rather long thin narrow frenum; gillrakers short, 
moderately numerous, rather weak, and pointed; no pseudobranchiae; scales rather small, very decidu- 
ous, the head naked; no scaly fin flaps; lateral line running low along the side; origin of the dorsal 
about the last third in the space between the front of the nasal cavity and the base of the caudal and 
well in advance of the anal; dorsal rays long; caudal deeply forked, the lower lobe much the longer; 
anal long, the rays also long; pectoral very long, and reaching for more than two-thirds the distance to 
ventrals, the rays all strong and the upper enlarged; ventral very small, only a little posterior to the 
center of the space between the bases of pectoral and caudal; caudal peduncle with its least width 2 in 
its least depth. 
Color in life (No. 02993) pale bluish silvery above; scales on back with darker edges; lower side 
and belly silvery; top of head dark bluish, side silvery; hill bluish black; fins pale bluish, anal white; 
upper lobe of caudal with a diffuse curved black band parallel with the edge. 
Color in alcohol, more or less silvery, dull brown above, and as the scales have all more or less 
fallen, the edges of the pockets are narrowly blackish; side with a slaty silvery lateral band to caudal; 
all the fins more or less dull olivaceous gray, the anal and ventrals whitish; beak blackish. 
This description from an example (No. 03193) 17 inches long, taken at Honolulu, where we 
obtained many others. We have also examined a number of examples collected by Dr. 0. P. Jenkins 
at Honolulu in 1889. Our specimens range in length from 16 to 18 inches. 
Hemiramphus longirostris Cuvier, Regne Animal, Ed. 2, II, 235, 1829, Pondicherry (after Kuddera of Russell); Cuvier & 
Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIX, 52, 1846 (Pondicherry). 
Hemiramphus marrorhynchus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIX, 1846, 55, pi. 556, open sea, 177 0 E., y° S. 
Hemirhampus longirostris, Gunther, Cat., VI, 276, 1866 (copied); Day, Fishes of India, 513, 1877 (Coromandel, coast of 
India). 
Hemirhamphus macrorhynchus, Gunther, Cat., VI, 276, 1866 (copied). 
Euleptorhamphus longirostris, Putnam, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1870, 239; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 
(Sept. 23, 1903), 434 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 522 (Honolulu). 
F. C. B. 1903—9 
