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Diagnosis. Suggestive of Cypselurus nigripennis (Valenciennes) 
but that species without barbels and its fins largely blackish. Known from 
most small flying fish by the black basal spot on its pale caudal. It 
somewhat siggests Exocoetus spilurus Glinther, though it is described with 
"a single flat barbel at the chin, half as long as the head and with 
different coloration. 
Type. — U. S. N. M., no• 
Eight examples. D.5561. Teomabal -Island (NW.), S. 36° W., 0.2 
mile (lat. 5° 50’ 45” N., long. 121° 01’ 15” E.), Jolo Island and vicinity. 
September 19, 1909. Length 47 to 62 ram. Type. 75 mm. 
