436 
Cypsilurus nigripennis IWEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes Indo 
. Austral, Archip., vol. 4, p. 192, 1922 (Bleeker’s specimens), 
Cypseluims nig;ripennis FOWLER, Mem, Bishop Mus,, vol, 10, p, 
84, 1928 (Shortland Island), 
Depth 4 2/3 to 5^j head 3 7/8 to 4-^, width 1 l/3 to 1 2/5, 
Snout 3^ to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 2 l/s to 3, much greater than 
snout, 1 1/3 to 1 2/5 in interorbitalj maxillary reaches front edge of 
iris; length 3i- to 3 3/4 in head from snout tipj teeth as very minute points 
along edges of jaw; interorbital 1 7/8 to 2 in head from snout tip, broad, 
shallowly concave. Gill j*akers 6 -/-17, lanceolate, Ig in gill filaments, 
which 1^ in iris. 
Scales estimted about 38? in lateral or axial series to caudal 
base and 4 more on latter, little developed and most all now fallen, 
D, I, 10 or I, 11, second branched ray 1 4/5 to 2 in total 
head length; A, I, 7, first branched ray 1 7/8 to 2; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 3 to 3§; pectoral rays I, 13, upperaost or simple ray short and 
separated from rest of fin by broad membrnne, fin reaching about middle of 
dorsal base; ventral half of body without caudal, reaches caudal base; 
lower caudal lobe 2 I /8 to 3^ in rest of body, upper lobe 1 2/5 to 1 2/3 
in lower lobe. 
