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Depth 8 - 2 / 3 ? head 7^^ Snout 2^ in head from snout tip; eye 
3§-, in snout, 1 in interorbitalj maxillary apparently nearly reaches 
eye, nearly long as snout? mandible before snout 1-7/8 in rest of head? 
teeth conic, simple? interorbital very low. 
Scales 45 in lateral series (about 38 on figure and 5 shown 
above lateral line to dorsal origin). 
D. II, 8 (l, 8 on figure), fin height 5-4/5 in total head 
length? A, II, 14 (I, 11 on figure), fin height 3-3/5? caudal 2-|-, con¬ 
vex behind? least depth of caudal peduncle 6^; pectoral 2-l/5, rays I, 
9? ventral 4-|- in total head length, rays I, 5, reaches 1^ to anal. 
Brownish green. No silvery lateral band. Dorsal, pectoral 
and ventral yellowish. Caudal brown. Anal yellowish. Length 75 ram, 
(Bleeker.) 
I^st Indies, Philippines, Bleeker says it resembles Dermogenys 
braohynotopterus Bleeker, but that species differs in its short pre¬ 
maxillary broader than long, while in the present species longer .than 
broad. 
Dermogenys oriental!s (Weber) 
Hemiramphus orientalis WEBER, Zool. Ergebn, Reise Nederland, 
Cost IndiS,,vol, 3, p, 427 (456), 1394 (type locality: Luw, 
Celebes.) 
Hemirhamphus orientalis BOULENGER, Proc, Zool, Soo, London, 
1897, p. 429 (Kalaena River, Toka River near Paloppo, 
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stream between Eurekang and Batulappa, Central Celebes? 
Macassar, south Celebes), 
