395 
Exoooetus maculipinnis VINCIGUERM. Eis. I, Violante 115 pi, 
f 
1 f-6, 1883 
Depth 4 3/5 to 5; head 4 I /5 to 4^, width 1 7/8 to 2. Snout 
3 4/5 to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 2 3/4 to 3 I/ 8 , greater than snout, 
1 1/6 to 1 1/5 in interorbital; maxillarj'- reaches 4/5 or to eye, length 
3 7/8 to 4 in head from snout tip; interorbital 2^ to 2 3/5, low, flattened 
to slightly concave. Gill rakers 5 or 6 -t- 17 or 18, lanceolate, 1 1/3 
in gill filaments, which 2^ in eye; 2 or 3 above and as many below rudimentary. 
Scales 50? to 56 in axial lateral series to caudal base and 5 or 
6 more on latter; 8 above, 2 below, 34 to 36? predorsal. Scales with 3 or 
4 basal rodiating striae; oirculi fine, mostly complete, 
D, ^ 12 or I, 13, first branched ray 1 1/5 to 1-^ in total head 
length; A, 8, first branched ray 1 4/5 to 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 
2 3/4 to 2 4 / 5 ; upper caudal lobe 1 I /3 in lower, which 4 l/s in rest of 
fish; pectoral 1 2/3, reaches middle of depressed anal; ventral 2 l/s, 
inserted midway between front of pupil and caudal base. 
Brownish on back and head above, sides and below silvery white. 
Dorsal and caudal tinged with dusky as 2 or 3 larger dark spots on former 
fin basally and on latter fin on lovrer lobe. Anal pale or whitish, with 
dusky spots at tips of some rays. Pectoral contrasted blackish and white, 
with braod whitish shsde extending from axil obliquely to upper rays near 
terminal ends, and -some rays tipped with whitish. Ventral black, except two 
outer white rays, 
India, Polynesia, also tropical Atlantic, 
