TRI CHITJRIDiE . 
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taken. Unfortunately, during his absence the specimen was destroyed. The description 
is from notes taken immediately after the fish was captured. 
There exists in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London a rostrum 
and portion of a skull of a Histiophorus, marked 251a, which most probably belongs to 
the same species. We subjoin a figure and a statement of the dimensions of this skull. 
It was obtained by purchase, but nothing further is known of its history. 
ft. in. 
Distance from posterior margin of operculum to extremity 
of rostrum 
Distance between extremity of maxillary and extremity of 
4 2 
3 2 
2 8 
1 1 
1 5 
1 10 
0 81- 
rostrum 
Distance from anterior edge of orbit to extremity of rostrum 
Length of maxillary 
Length of produced part of upper jaw 
Length of mandible 
Depth of prseoperculum 
Family TRICHIURID^. 
TRICHIURUS, L. 
Trichiurus haumela. 
176. 
Clupea haumela, Forsk. p. 72. 
Russell, pi. 41. 
Trichiurus haumela, Bl. Schn. p. 518; Cuv. Val. viii. p. 249 ; Rupp. N. W. Fische, p. 41 ; Cantor, 
Mai. Fish. p. 113 ; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 348. 
Bagamoia, east coast of Africa. Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 
