352 
Snout narrow, short* Eye very large, Zq in head, equals 
interorhital, which little concave. D. 13; A* 9. Black above, whitish 
below. Pectoral pale brown. Ventral colorless. Length 165 ram. 
(Valenciennes.) 
South Atlantic. Valenciennes gives notes from Gay’s drawing 
as the back blue, below silvery, dorsal, caudal and pectorals green, 
ventrfitls blue» 
Cypselurus japonicus (Franz) 
Exocoetus lineatus -var# j^aponicus FRA.NZ, Abhandl# Bayer 
Akad. Wiss.4, Suppl. Band 1, pt. 1, p. 24, 1910 (type 
locality: Oyaraa, Sa^mi Bay). 
Cypselurus .japonicus JORDAN, TANAKA, SNYDER, Joum. College 
Sci., Tokyo, vol. , p. 108, 1913 (Sagami Bay). 
Scales 43 or 44. D. 12; A. 10. Length 310 to 410 mm. 
(Franz.) 
This imperfectly known nominal form is described as a 
subspecies of the Atlantic Cypselurus lineatus^ 
