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Caudal or quite reaches vent. Dark blue above, silvery white below. grayish. Pectoral gray or blackish, edges white. Ventral white. Length 240 mm.

China scas, Macao, Shanghai.-(Red Sea, Indies, Australia*, Melanesia, Polynesia*, Hawaii*.

CYPSELURUS Swainson,

Long finned Flying Fishes.

Cape seas, India, East Also in the Atlantic*).

Cypsilurus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, 1839, p. 296. Type Exocoetus nuttallii Le Sueur, designated by Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 16, 1882, p. 380.

Eye large.

Body elongate. Snout blunt.

Teeth very feeble or absent. Dorsal little or usually not very high. Anal long or short. Pectoral very long, reaches caudal base. Ventral postmedian, ncarer caudal than snout, large.

Synopsis of the Species.

a1. Exonautes. Anal long, base subequal with dorsal base, original opposite,

rays 10 to 12 (branched).

b. No barbels at chin; first and second pectoral rays simple, third

divided.

c1. Second pectoral ray long as first ray; ventral inserted midway

between hind eye cdge and caudal base.

exsiliens.

c". Second pectoral ray about half longer than first; ventral in- serted midway between middle of preopercle and caudal base.

b. One long barbel below front tip of mandible.

rondeletii.

monocirrhus.

a3. Cypselurus. Anal shorter, base 1⁄2 to dorsal base, insertion behind

first dorsal ray, rays 8 or 9 (branched).

d'. No barbels at chin.

e1. Pectoral without white transverse band; eye

34 to 3% in head.

f'. Fins uniformly pale.

simus.

bahiensis.

f. Dorsal with large black terminal blotch.

e. Pectoral with broad oblique white band across

lower half; eye 3 in head.

ď. Chin with barbels.

arcticeps.

g'. Chin with 2 very small barbels.

hirundo.

g. Chin with brush of 16 to 18 long

barbels.

cirriger.

The Hong Kong Naturalist.

A Synopsis of the Fishes of China

Cypselurus exsiliens (P. L. S. Müller).

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Exocoetus exsiliens P. L. S. Müller, Ritters C. Linne Natursystems. Suppl., Nüremberg, 1776, p. 209. Carolina.-Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873, p. 149 (reference).

Exonautes exsiliens Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univers., No. 1, January 1931, p. 88 (reference).

Exocaetus fasciatus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 265 (Sea of China).

Depth 44 to 534; head 44; snout 4 in head from snout tip; eye 2 2/5; interorbital 28. Gill rakers 7+18. Dorsal rays 11; anal 12, opposite dorsal; pectoral reaches caudal base, first and second rays simple. Brownish Black above, silvery white below. Breast with 3 blackish cross bands. spot on upper part of front dersal rays, fin otherwise whitish. Anal and caudal whitish, lower caudal lobe with blackish spot its distance from base. Pectoral dusky, edged paler above, with blackish basal, median and terminal areas transversely. Ventral somewhat similar only basal whitish arca larger. Length 270 mm.

Sea of China.--(Atlantic*).

Figure 18. Cypselurus rondeletii (Valenciennes).

H.W.F

Cypselurus rondeletii (Valenciennes). Figure 18. Exocoetus rondeletii Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, 1846, p. 115, pl. 562. Naples, Sicily, Canaries.

Exocoetus brachycephalus Günther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 6, 1866, p. 297.

China. Blecker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873, p. 149 (reference). Günther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., series 4, vol. 13, 1874, p. 157 (Chefoo).

Exonautes brachycephalus Chu, Biol. Bull, St. John's Univers., No. 1, January 1931, p. 88 (reference).

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