Black and upper surface pale brown, sides and 
below more or less bright silvery white. Iris silvery 
white. Beak pale. Fins all very pale or light brownish 
South Africa, India, Formosa, Japan, Polynesia 
Hawaii. Also in the Atlantic from New Jersey and 
Massachusetts. 
The usually accepted name for this species, 
from HeM- Ramphus longirostris Cuvier 1829, gives place 
to the earlier Hemiramphus viridis Van Hasselt 1824, 
A^ N. S. P., no. 22443. Atlantic City, N. J. 
Edward S. Keed. Length 394 mm. 
A, N. S, P., one example. Honolulu, Hawaiian 
Islands. J. W. Thompson. Bishop Museum. 
Length 380 mm, 
A. N. S. P., two examples. Honolulu. J, W. 
Thompson. Bishop Museum (45) Length 376 to 
433 mm. 
Genus Hemirhamphodon Bleeker 
Hemirhamphodon BLEEKER, Nederland Tijds. Dierk. 
vol. 3, p, 140, 1866. (Type Hemirhamphus 
phaiosoma BLEEKER, orthotypic.) 
