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ventrals; ventrals small, about midway between origin of pectoral and base of caudal, and not reaching 
anus; caudal peduncle moderately deep and compressed. 
Color in alcohol, brown above, whitish beneath, washed with silvery; along the side a broad, 
leaden silvery longitudinal band; pectoral gray-brown, edged with whitish; dorsal and caudal dark, 
the anal and ventrals whitish. 
This description from an example 7.5 inches long, obtained at Honolulu in 1889 by Dr. Jenkins. 
We have a number of others 6 to 7 inches in length from the same place. 
This species does not appear to reach a greater length than about 8 inches. 
Exoccetus micropterus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIX, 127, 1846, pi. 563, Port King- George, New Holland; 
Carteret, New Ireland; Buru; Malabar; Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sei. Indo-Neerl., 1, 1856, 63; Giinther, Cat., VI, 279, 1866 
(Amboyna). 
Cypsilurus micropterus, Bleeker, Nederl. Tydsch. Dierk., Ill, 128, 1865 (Amboyna). 
Evolantia microptera, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 434 (Honolulu). 
Genus 76. PAREXOCCETUS Bleeker. 
Body moderately elongate, elliptical in cross-section; snout short; lower jaw not produced; roof 
of mouth (vomer, palatines, and pterygoids) fully provided with teeth; pectoral fins moderate, not 
reaching beyond middle of dorsal; ventrals long, inserted behind middle of body; anal fin about as 
long as dorsal; dorsal high. Small flying-fishes of the tropical coasts widely distributed. 
Parexoccetus Bleeker, Nederl. Tydsch. Dierk., Ill, 1865, 126 (mento) . 
ci. Head about 4 in length; D. 9; A. 10 rostratus , p. 131 
aa. Head shorter, 4.67 in length; D. 13; A. 14 brachypterus , p. 131 
89. Parexoccetus rostratus (Gunther). 
Head a little more than 4 in length; depth 5.5; D. 9; A. 10; scales in lateral line 40; 24 scales 
between occiput and dorsal fin, and 8 longitudinal series between the origins of dorsal and anal; 
depth of head equaling distance between extremity of snout and center of eye; eye 4.3 in head, less 
than width of interorbital space, which is flat. 
Snout much produced, its length a little more than that of postorbital part of head; mouth cleft 
directed upward, subvertical; dorsal beginning scarcely in advance of anal, elevated, its anterior rays 
when depressed extending to caudal; anal fin low; lower caudal lobe not much shorter than the head; 
pectoral reaching to dorsal, its length less than one-half the total body length (without caudal); ven- 
tral extending to vent. Dorsal black, with the last ray white; pectoral black, with the upper and lower 
rays white; ventral and anal whitish. Length 6.5 inches. Hawaiian Islands. (Gunther). 
Known only from the type, which is in the British Museum. 
Exoccetus rostratus Gunther, Cat., VI, 280, 1866, Hawaiian Islands. 
90. Parexocoetus brachypterus ( Solander). “ Malolo;" “ Puhiki’i.” Plate III. 
Head 4.67 in length; depth 5; D. 13; A. 14; P. 12; V. 6; scales 42 to base of caudal; 8 scales in a 
transverse series to middle of belly; greatest width of head 1.3 in its depth; snout 4 in head; eye 3, 
about 1.25 in postocular part of head, 1 in interorbital space; ventral 1.2; depressed dorsal 2.75 in body; 
pectoral 1.88. 
Body elongate, spindle-shaped and laterally compressed; head elongate, compressed, pointed; 
