FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 121 



Family CARANGID^. 



Genus SERIOLA, Cuvier. 



SERIOLA GRANDIS, Castelnau. 



Kingfish : Yellow-Tail. 

 (Plate xxxv., fig. 1.) 



Seriola grandis, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet., i., 

 1872, p. 114, and Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, iii., 

 1879, pp. 352, 364. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales, v., 1881, p. 540. Id., Johnston, Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Tasm., 1882 (1883), p. 119, and 1890 (1891), 

 p. 32. Id., Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S. Wales, 1886, p. 26. 



Seriola lalandi, Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, iii., 

 1879, p. 352. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, v., 1881, p. 539. Id., Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S. 

 Wales, 1886, p. 26, and Ed. Fish. N.S. Wales, 1893, 

 p. 82. Id., McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Viet., Dec. xviii., 

 1889, pi. clxxii. Id., W T aite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1, 

 1899, p. 71. Id., Stead, Ed. Fish. N.S. Wales, 1908, 

 p. 89 (not of Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



D. vi.-vii. i. 31-34 ; A. ii. i. 20-22 ; P. 1+20 ; V. i. 5 ; 

 C. 17. Depth 4-6 in the length from the premaxillary sym- 

 phy.sis to the end of the middle caudal rays ; head, to end of 

 opercular lobe, 3-9-4-2 in the same. Snout 2-8-3 in the 

 head. Eye 6-6-7 in the head, a little less than half the 

 interorbital width, which is about equal to the length of the 

 snout, and 3 in the head. Width of maxillary equal to the 

 eye-diameter. Fourth dorsal spine 1-1-2 in the eye. An- 

 terior dorsal ray 2-2-1, anterior anal ray 2-7-2-9, pectoral 

 about 2, ventral 1-7-1-9 in the head. Depth of caudal 

 peduncle almost equal to the eye diameter, 6-7-7 in the 

 head. 



Body slender, compressed, the dorsal and ventral profiles 

 almost evenly arched. Jaws equal anteriorly ; maxillary 

 reaching to below anterior third of eye, broad and truncate 

 posteriorly with the angles rounded. Hinder margin of pre- 

 operculum subvertical, the angle broadly rounded. A few 

 scales on the temporal region and upper portion of operculum ; 

 cheeks and area behind the eyes also scaly, head otherwise 

 naked ; naked border of preoperculum as broad as the scaly 

 portion of the cheek. Nostrils close together, nearer the 

 eye than the end of the snout. 



Minute villiform teeth form a band on each ramus of the 

 jaws ; the bands are wider on the mandible than on the 



