D. 9, first branched ray 2 l/s in total head length} A. I, 
branched ray 3 l/S; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 2/3; lower 
caudal lobe 3| in rest of fish; pectoral rays J., 13, fin reaches middle of 
dorsal or ,1 4/5 in length to caudal base; ventral irays 6, fin not quite 
reaching end of anal, origin nearly midway between snout tip and caudal 
base, length 2 in body to caudal base. 
Above bluish green, sides and below silvery. Body with 6 broad 
brown transverse bands, first through ©ye, second close before pectoral, 
third close behind pectoral, fourth above ventral base, fifth from front 
of dorsal till before anal, sixth from last dorsal to last anal rays. 
Vertical fins clear, dorsal with broad brown edge, anal and lower caudal 
lobe tipped brown. Paired fins brownish or blackish violet, transverse 
clesr band on middle of pectoral. Length 54 mm. (Bleeker,) 
East Indies, Weber and Beufort comment "This is the yoxmg stage 
of some species close to altipennis and nigricans, from which it seems 
to differ in the low number of dorsal rays,” 
Exocoetus hirundo STEINDACHNER, Verb, Zool, bot, Gesell. Wien, 
vol, 16, p, 482, pi, 6, fig, 2, 1866 (type locality: Hong Kong) 
Cypsilurus hirundo JORDAN and STARKS, Proc, U, S, Nat, Mus., vol. 
26, p‘, 542, 1903 (Wakanoura), 
