Six examples* D,5561» Teomabal Island (NVf,), S, 36® 0*2 mile (lab# 
5 ° 50’ 45” N., long. 121® 1’ 15” E,), vicinity of Jolo. September 18, 1909. 
L-ength 23 to 64 mm. 
Cypselurus spilurus (Gttnther) 
Exocoetus spilurus Gt^ETHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 6, 
p. 285, 1866 (no locality). 
Cypsilurus spilurus EOTCKER and MOHR, Mitteil. Zool. Mus. 
Hamburg, vol. 42, p. 128, figs. 1—3, 1926 (east Long Island, 
New Guinea). 
Cypselurus spilurus FO’/niiER, Mem. Bishop ifcs., vol. 10, p. 85, 
1928 (compiled). 
Bepth not more than head length, which short and thick. Snout 
yfery shortj eye very largej interorbital space wide, concave. 
Sinp-le flat barbel at chin, half as long as head. D. 11, fin 
O 
moderately elemted, last rays reaching caudalj A. 8j pectoral extends to 
ventral rootj ventral reaches caudal, origin midway between head and caudal 
root. Upper parts transparent, colorless, lower parts brown. Small black 
spot at base of barbel, larger one in middle of ventral root. Upper part of 
gill opening black. Pectoral colorless, with triangular black spot at base. 
Ventral and anal fins black. Length 63 mm. 
(Gttnther.) 
East Indies. Duncker and Mohr have figured two examples, 32 and 
17 mm. long. 
