I 
409 
Exocoetus bahiensis (not MNZANI) BARNARD, Ann. South African 
Mus., vol. 22, pt. 2, p, 1022, Oct, 1927 (FOWLER’S record). 
Depth 5 to 5 l/Sj head 3 3/4 to 4 l/s, viridth 1 3/6 to 1 3/4. 
Snout 4 to 5 in head from snout tip; eye 2 7/8 to 3^, greater than snout, 
1 1/3 to 1^ in interorbital; maxillary nearly or quite reeeihes opposite 
front eye edge, length 3 3/4 to 3 7/8 in head from snout tip; teeth hardly 
evident; each mandibular ramus with broad cutaneous flap laterally long 
as orbit; interorbital 2 I/3 to 2^, broad, shallowly concave. Gill rakers 
6 -f 11, lanceolate, 1 2/5 in gill filaments, which 1 3/5 in iris. 
Scales 42 or 43 in median lateral series to caudal base and 
3 more on latter, mostly fallen and count according to pockets; 8 above, 
30? predorsal. Scales with basal radiating striae, edge scalloped; 17 to 
19 circuli, complete, 
D, I, 12, I, first branched ray 1 l/lO to 1^ in total head length; 
A, I, 8 to 10, first branched ray 2 to 2 2/5; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 3 l/s to 3 1/5; P, 12 to I, 14, reaches far as middle of dorsal 
mmm 
base or last dorsal ray base; ventral reaches far as middle of last depressed 
anal ray, or beyond tip of same though not quite to caudal base, fin 2 I/3 to 
2^ in entire length to caudal base; lower caudal lobe 3 l/s to 3 3/5 in rest 
of body, upper lobe 1 2/5 to 1 3/5? in lower lobe. 
