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ost ray near]}* half length of head, the last rays of the fin scarcely rising 

 above the scaly sheath. Head 4; depth 3. D. VIII-I, 24; A. II-I, 

 i'l ; Lat. 1. 4t (developed scutes). San Diego, Cal., to South America. 

 (Description from original types of T. loops.) 



(TnicJiitritH hoop* Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 1859, 108, not Caranx loops of 

 C. &V. : Caranx caballus Giiiither, Trans. Zocil. Soc. Lond. 1869,431: Caranx gintrdi 

 Steiudachncr.) 



687. C. cibi Poey. 



Dusky bluish, golden below, without spots. Body rather elongate, not 

 elevated, muzzle pointed. Profile regularly curved. Maxillary reaching 

 front of eye. Teeth villiform on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Breast 

 and vertical fins scaly. Last spine of dorsal short, strong, free. Pec- 

 torals as long as depth of body, falcate ; ventrals short. Eye 4 A in 

 head. Head 3J ; depth 3. D. VIII-I, 25 ; A. II-I, 22. West Indies, 

 north to Florida. 



(Poey.Memorias, ii, 224, 1858.) 

 cc. Depth more than one-third the length. 



688. C. beani Jordan. 



Silvery, bluish above ; no black spot on opercles or fins ; spiuous 

 dorsal and axil dusky. Body ovate, deep and compressed, somewhat 

 elliptical ; the profile anteriorly not elevated, forming an even curve con- 

 tinuous from the snout to the base of the dorsal, the snout therefore not 

 blunt. Top of head not much compressed. Premaxillaries on the level 

 of the lower edge of the pupil ; maxillary not reaching to opposite the 

 front of the pupil. Teeth rather small, in a narrow band on each ja\v, 

 without distinct canines; villiforni teeth on tongue, vomer, and palatines. 

 Cheek about as deep as the eye, which is rather small, considerably 

 nhorter than snout; adipose eyelid little developed. Gill-rakers Ion g. 

 Breast entirely scaly ; soft parts of the vertical fins densely covered with 

 small scales. Pectoral I'm falcate, a little shorter than the head, reach- 

 in- past tlie front of the anal ; caudal equally forked. Plates of lateral 

 linesmal). IIi-ad:5.\; depth 2&. D, VIII-I, 27; A. II-I, 23; Lat. 1.28. 

 lira ii fort, North Carolina. 



(Jordan, I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 486.) 



689. C. falcatits Holl.r. 



Greenish above with blue reflections, sides and below golden or 

 silvery ; caudal fin yellow, inner edge of upper lobe black ; a black axil 

 lary spot, opcivle faintly blotched. Body oval, much compressed, with 

 the axis nearly midway between the back and belly; profile very con- 



