398 
Cypselurus hirundo JORDAN, TANAKA, SNYDER, Joum, College Sci., 
Tokyo, vol, , p. 107, 1913 (Wakanoura). —JORDAN and METZ, 
Mem. Camegie Mus., vol. 6, no. 1, p. 25, 1913 (Pusan). —CHU, 
Biol. Bull. St. John’s Univ., no. 1, p. 88, Jan. 1931 (reference). 
—FOWLER, Bcmg Kong Ifetumlist, vol. 3, nos. 3-4, p. 278, fig. 
(modified), Deo. 1932 (compiled). 
Depth 6} head 4^, Snout 3 4/5 in head; eye 3 l/s, greater than 
snout j mxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, len^h 3 2/3 in head; 
interorbital lov*'. 
Scales 54 to 56 in lateral series; 8 above, 1 below, 
D, IV, 9, first branched ray 1 l/lO in head; A, 10 (9 on figure), 
third ray 2 l/5; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 3/4; upper caudal lobe lx 
in lower, which 3 3/5 in rest of fish; pectoral rays 14, not quite reaching 
end of depressed dorsal or 1^ in body to caudal base; ventral rays 6, fin 
reaching hind end of depressed anal, length 2 3/4 in body to caudal base, 
origin little nearer caudal base than hind eye edge. 
Contrasted dark and whitish, especially fins, which all with 
more or less blackish, baailly pale or whitish. Caudal with base of upper 
lobe pale and 2 large rounded whitish spots on lower lobe. Belly blackish, 
length of f igure 185 mm, (Steindachner,) 
China. 
