Scales 94 to 100 in lateral series. 
D. 15 to 17, fin height 6-3/5 in total head 
length; A. 6 or 7, fin height 3-7/8; caudal 2-2/3, rounded; 
least depth of caudal peduncle subequal with eye; pectoral 
rays I, 7 or I, 8, fin 4 in total head; ventral 3-3/4, ray 
I, 5, fin reaches 1-1/5 to anal. 
Dark brown above, lighter below. Dark patch on 
opercle. Fins more or less dark, dorsal with dark border. 
Length 189 mm. 
(Vtfeber and Beaufort) 
Malaya, Bast Indies. 
Hemirhamphodon phaiosoma (Bleeker) 
Hemiramphus phaiosoma BLSEKSR, Naturk. Tijds. 
Nederland IndiS, vol. 3, p. (88, 89) 99, 1852 
(type locality: Tjirutjup River, Blitong, 
Billiton); Verh. Batav. Genoot. (Snoek. 
Vissch.), vol. 24, p. 26, 1852 (Blitong, 
Billiton Island and Tjirutjup River). 
