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Back olive broiim, sides and lower surfaces silvery white. 
Iris silverj,' white. Dorsal and caudal pale brownish. Anal whitish. 
Pectoral dusky, paler subbasally and darker terminally. Ventral brownish 
medially, edges broadly paler or whitish, especially inner margins. 
Arabia, Zanzibar, Ifeurituis, Eexmion, Bourbon, Malaya, East 
Indies, Philippines, Cochin China, Japan, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, 
Also in the Atlantic, I have admitted the present species with the description 
by Valenciennes chiefly as it is described with ”D, 13; A, 11”, Moreover it 
is described with "les pectorales, d’un gris violac^, n’ont ni la tache 
blanche ni la bordure de la precedente” / "Exocoetus speculiger / . 'While 
all my specimens of the present species show a more or less pale area on the 
pectoral subbasally below it is sometimes quite inconspicuous or little 
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evident. 
There is little doubt that Exoooetus socotranus Steindachner, 
determined alternately as well as dovibtfully E, bmohysoma Bleeker, is 
this species. It is described with D, 10, A, 8, scales based on an 
example 210 ram. 
9090 to 9097, Catbalogan Anchorage, Samar, April 15, 1908, Length 158 to 
178 mm, 8 examples, 
7776 to 7779, Catbalogan Abchorage, April 17, 1908, Length 157 to 168 mm, 
15488 £i 485 J , Cebu market, Majreh 26, 1909, Length 200 mm, 
13969 to 13971, Nato, Luzon, June 19, 1909, Length 167 to 185 mm, 
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4642. Port Binanga, Subig Bay, January '8, 1908, Length 177 mm. 
