439 
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D. 12 or 13, distant from first rudimentary caudal rays space 
little more than head length; A, 9, origin below sixth dorsal ray; caMal 
deeply forked; pectoral ray I, 14; ventral rays 6, reach middle of anal, 
longer than head, origin midway between hind preoperole edge and caudal base. 
Dark above, silvery below. Doral and caudal dusky. Anal and 
4 
vertrals white with outer rays of latter somewhat dusky. Pectoral dusky 
above, hyaline below, reddish brown in axis. Length 256 mm. 
East Indies. Weber and Beaufort say "allied to C. bahiensis and 
from both of which it differs through the absence of teeth 
on the palate. It is more over distinguished from C_. bahiensis by its 
greater height, smaller teeth, less blunt profile of snout, and from £. 
oligolepis by its simple, not tricuspid teeth and smaller scales." 
Cypselurus gilberti (Snyder) 
Exonautes gilberti SKYDER, Bull. U. S« Fish Comm., vol. 22, 
1902, p. 522, pi. 7, fig. 12 (1904) (type locality: near lat. 
28-g-° N., long, 140° W,, north east of Honolulu), --JORDAN and 
EVERtiAM, Bull. U, S, Fish Comm,, vol. 23, pt, 1, p. 134, 
pi. 24, 1903 (1905) (type). —JORDAN and DICKERSON, Proc, 
U. S. Nat, Mus», vol, 34, p, 607, 1908 (note). 
