lis PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Length 5|- inches (tip of lower caudal lobe slightly damaged). 
One example from Newport (Powell). 
Jordan and Meek describe a Hawaiian example which they identify 
with this species, and state it has about 38 scales in the lateral line and 
five rows above to the dorsal. In 1903, Jordan and Evermann give 
the scales 42 to caudal base, in Hawaiian examples. No barbels are 
to be found in my Newport example, though Jordan and Meek (Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, vol. 8, p. 47) state that these are present. 
Cypselurus furcatus (Mitchill). Fig. 2. — Head 43- to 4j; depth 
4f to 5; D. I, 12, or i, 13; A. i, 8; P. i, 14 or i, 15; scales along 
lateral Hne to caudal base 50? to 56 and 5 or 6 more on latter; scales 
above lateral line to dorsal origin 8, below to anal origin 3; predorsal 
Fig. 2. — Cypselurus furcatus (Mitchill). 
scales 34? to 36?; snout 3|^ to 4 in head, measured from upper jaw 
tip; eye 2f to 3|; maxillary 4; interorbital 2| to 2f . 
Body elongate, sides flattened, back broad. Caudal peduncle 
small, compressed, little longer than deep. Head broadly convex 
above, flattened sides converging below. Snout convex, length about 
§ its width. Eye large, rounded, well anterior, infringing slightly on 
upper profile. Mouth small, broad, convex lower jaw protruding. 
Maxillary little curved, apparently would reach eye. Teeth very 
minute, simple, in narrow series in jaws. Nostril large, close before 
eye. Interorbital wide, flattened or slightly concave. Rakers 11 or 
III, 3 + 14 or 15, III, lanceolate, about 3 in eye. Scales rather firm. 
