127 
Scales 70 in lateral series* 
D. I, 20 to I, 22, fin height 3-3/4 in total head; 
* t 
A. I, 8 (I, 7 on figure), fin height 4; caudal 2-3/4, convex 
behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 1^ times eye; pectoral 
3-1/6 in total head, rays I, 7 or I, 8; ventral I, 5, origin 
below first third of dorsal base, fin 6-1/8 in total head, 
reaches 1-2/3 to anal. 
Brownish green, below paler. No silvery lateral 
band. Fins brownish. Length 77 ipm. (Bleeker.) 
Malaya, East Indies. Weber and Beaufort give 
the scales as 90 in lateral series. 
Genus Loligorhammhn.q 1/Vhitley 
Loli^orhamphus V®ITLEY, Rec. Australian, Mus., 
vol. 18, no. 3, p. 105, March 25, 1931. (Type 
Loligorhamphus normani v’/HITLEY, orthotypic.) 
Body slender, elongate. Head compressed, flat 
above. Snout little longer than broad. Eye large, midway 
in head from snout tip. Maxillary not entirely concealed. 
Beak long, tapering, v/ith narrow median grove and each lateral 
cutaneous fold broader than beak itself. Interorbital low. 
Gill rakers, slender, numerous. Scales small. Anal begins 
little behind dorsal origin. Caudal forked, lower lobe 
little longer. Pectoral small, pointed. Ventral small, 
short, inserted nearer caudal base than pectoral base. 
