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Scales 48 in lateral or axial series to caudal base and 
4 more on latter; 7 above, 3 below, 38? predorsal. Scales with 4 or 
5 basal radiating striae, edge scalloped; circuli very fine, complete. 
D. 10, first branched ray 2 in total head length; A. _I, ,12, 
second branched ray 2 1 / 3 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 4; pectoral 
rays m 17, reaches beyond dorsal and anal tips posteriorly, though 
not quite to caudal base; ventral much longer than head, not quite 
reaching far back as tip of last anal ray; lower caudal lobe 3 1/5 in 
rest of fish, upper lobe 1 2/5 in lower or about long as head. 
Brown, little paler below, (evidently discolored dark due to 
formline). Fins all more or less brownish. Pectoral largely uniform 
dark or dusky brown, though its lower and posterior edges whitish. 
East Indies, China, Polynesia, Hawaii. The specimen described 
above seems closer to the account and figure of Exoooetus rondeletii 
than any other species, Valenciennes gives D, 3JL or 12, A, 11 to 13’*etc", 
His figure is faulty as the anal is shown inserted before the dorsal, , 
The pectoral is shown with apparently the 4 uppermost rays all simple, 
a condition I have never seen in any exocoetid. The ventrals are shown 
with a dark medial basal area, also evident though not so contrasted in 
my specimen. Jordan and Seale's figure of Cypselurus \mioolor siirely is 
the present species, with appended barnacles, not only in its fin formula 
but its dark uniform pectoral as well. It clearly shows pectoral rays 
