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doreall Iola. tips of cmd. edecd with blackish. A narrow, dark 
lateral stripe without silvery stripe below it, there being no trace of 
the usual silvery band. Margins of all dorsal scales outlined by dark 
pigment spots in the skin. Pectoral pale. 
Type.—Cat. No. 61053, U.S.N.M. Described from a specimen 20 
centimeters in length, from Nagasaki, Japan. (Collected November, 
1901, by Richard Crittenden McGregor.) 
The species is characterized at once in the genus by its short beak, 
large scales and robust form. It differs from HZ. sajori, the other 
member of the genus known from Nagasala, especially in the very 
much larger sealles as well as in the much shorter beak. It ditters 
also in a darker, less metallic coloration, in a rounded instead of an 
acute upper jaw and in the less elongate body. 
Hemiramphus kurumeus, from Chikugo River, in the same island 
of Kiusiu, is a fresh-water fish, also large-scaled, but slenderer, with 
much longer beak. H. occipitalis Gill, from Shimoda, seems to be 
the young of //. sajorz, although its scales are not described. Hem- 
ramphus japonicus, from the Riu Kiu Islands, is a typical Zemiram- 
phus with short anal, inserted under middle of dorsal, and the ven- 
trals farther back. MHemiramphus mioprorus, with sajort and 
Lurumeus, belongs to the subgenus Hyporhamphus, characterized by 
the large size of the anal fin, which is as long as the dorsal, and by 
the anterior insertion of the ventral fins. 
