129 
Brownish above, lighter below. Beak and folds 
nearly all black, also edges of lowermost folds and areas 
on top of head and opercle. Each scale pocket on back 
with blackish mark. A blackish lateral stripe, probably 
silvery in life, from punctulated pectoral base to caudal 
base, broadest between dorsal and anal. Fins colorless, 
with blackish pigment over dorsal and anal. Length 206 
mm. (Whitley). 
‘.Queensland. 
Genus Nom orhamphus Weber and Beaufort 
( 
Normorhamphus WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes Indo 
Austral. Archipelago, vol. 4, p. 141, 1922 
(Type Normorhamphus celebensls WEBER and 
BEAUFORT.) 
^ Body elongate, coxnpressed. Head rather large. 
Triangular part of upper jaw long as wide. Eye high, median 
in head length. Mandible slightly projects beyond upper 
jaw, with fleshy extension at tip (curved backwards in 
preserved specimens). Premaxillary teeth in band, fine, 
similar in lower jaw. Gill openings wide. Gill rakers 
few, tubercular, spinescent. Scales moderate, rather 
deciduous. Lateral line indistinct, low. Dorsal far 
posterior, behind anal origin. Anal longer than dorsal. 
Caudal rounded. Pectoral high, less than head. Ventral 
small, little nearer head than caudal. 
Small viviparous hemiramphids of the fresh waters 
of Celebes. 
