156 
Hemlrhamphus buffonis (not VALENCIENIMES) EASE, 
Jena. Zeits. Naturv;., vol, 51, p. 541, figs. 
13-15, 1914 (Sepik, Kaiser Wilhelm Land, New 
Guinea). 
Depth 9-3/5 to 11-1/3, compressed, body width 2/3 
its depth; head 2-1/3 to 2-2/5, head from snout tip 3 to 
3-1/3. Triangular part of upper Jaw scarcely longer than 
broad at base; eye equal to or somewhat smaller than 
interorbital space, 1-g to 1-4/5 in postorbital; beak 
beyond snout tip 3-9/10 to 4-4/5 in total length without 
caudal; teeth very small, pointed, forming bands, upper 
band of uniform width and lower band tapering forward; 
preorbital rounded in front, ^ to 2/3 of eye. 
Scales 50 to 53 in lateral series. 
D. 14, convex, 3 times long as anal, third fourth 
and fifth rays longest and none thickened; A. II, 8 or • 
II, 9, convex, males with sixth ray swollen and posterior 
rays smaller than others, fin origin below third or fourth 
dorsal ray; caudal more or less truncate; pectoral rays 
I, 7 or I, 8, fin long as or somewhat longer than 
postorbital rfegion; ventral rays 1,5, short, less i of 
pectoral, origin of fin about twice nearer caudal base 
than eye. 
