Euleptorhamphus longirostris (Cuvier). b ie 
Heea 7: abot 126: D. i4, 22; A. f1, 20; FP. I, 9; 
V. i, 53; scales (pockets) 125 from shoulder to caudal base; 
78 scales (pockets) before dorsal; 11 scales transversely 
from dorsal to anal origins; snout 2 7/8 in head; eye 3; 
maxillary 3 2/5; interorbital 3s. Body strongly compressed, 
Least depth of caudal peduncle half its length or 54 in 
head. Head well compressed, width 3 in its length, flattened 
sides well constricted below. Snout: width 1s its length. 
Eye slightly impinging on upper profile, slightly advanced 
or center about last third in ellipsoid pupil. Maxillary 
largely concealed, about to front nostril. Teeth fine, in 
narrow bands in jaws, extending down on maxillary edge. 
Combined eye and postocular at least 3 in beak (damaged). 
Interorbital concave. Preorbital depth about = its length. 
Gill-rakers 7 - 22, lanceolate, 2 in filaments, which are 
e in eye. Scales all fallen. Dorsal inserted slightly behind 
last third in space between snout tip and caudal base. Anal 
similar, only inserted slightly behind dorsal origin. Pect- 
oral (damaged) at least when extended forward reaches snout 
tip. Ventral long as eye, inserted much nearer caudal base 
than pectoral origin. 
Color in alcohol: faded dull brown, with traces of 
bright silvery-white on sides and below. Fins all pale. 
length about 400 mm. (beak and caudal tips damaged). 
Hawaiian Islands, 
Jordan and Evermann describe the interorbital as flat, 
the head naked and dorsal inserted apparently little more 
