from Newport, Khode Island. The Santo Domingo exsmple shows: 
Beaa 4 to 4 1/5: depth 5: to 5-1/3; DL 4; 11 or 12: A. 4, 12: 
P, i, 11 or 123 scales (pockets) 38? from shoulder to caudal 
base; predorsal scales (pockets) 
to 4 in head from upper jaw tip; 
to 3 3/5; interorbital 2 2/5 to 
or 23. scales with 4 convergent basal striae, the Newport 
example shows 5 or 4;circuli in all complete. Length 
117 mm. 
P, mesogaster may therefore be provisionally separated 
on account of the increased gill-rakers on the lower part 
Of the first arch 22 or 25, compared with 17 to 19 in P. 
brachypterus. 
o4 Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 16, 190% 
Exocoetus volitans Linnaeus. 
On the plate, showing a poor dorsal view is "South 
ific Ocean. Lat. 2697' Long. 174° 20E. April 18, 1840." 
specimen reported not in the collection, though 2 others 
said to be. One is said to be from between Sunday Island 
Tonga, and the other from near Rora Island. 
a 
Cypselurus furcatus (Mitchill). fas. (62- 
Two colored figures on plate, from off Cape Frio near 
Rio Janeiro. 
