130 ; ' ENDEAVOUR " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



A well-developed procumbent spine precedes the dorsal fin, 

 which is more or less hidden in the flesh. Third dorsal spine 

 longest ; the fourth nearly reaches the first ray when 

 adpressed. Anterior rays longer than the others, but not 

 produced to form a lobe. Anal similar to the dorsal, and 

 both fins have a scaly sheath covering the bases of the rays 

 anteriorly. Caudal deeply forked. Pectorals falcate, not 

 reaching across the curve of the lateral line. Ventrals 

 reaching well beyond the vent, but not to the anal spines. 



Colours. Silvery blue above, silvery white below. A 

 large, rounded, black blotch covers the upper opercular 

 margin and extends onto the suprascapular region. 



Described from two specimens, 145 and 195 mm. long from 

 the tip of the snout to the end of the middle caudal rays ; the 

 accompanying figure represents the larger example, which 

 was taken near Pine Peak, Queensland. I have compared 

 them with the typical specimen of Caranx cheverti in the 

 Macleay Museum, and find no difference between them, while 

 they also agree with Indian specimens of C. leptolepis in the 

 Australian Museum which were identified by Dr. Day. 



LOGS. The " Endeavour " collection includes thirty-eight 

 specimens from eleven to fourteen miles N. 59 W. of Pine 

 Peak, Queensland, 25 fathoms ; 1st August, 1910, on a 

 muddy bottom. Macleay 's type was obtained at Katow, 

 New Guinea. Giinther records a specimen from Australia 

 which was collected by Macgillivray ; it was probably 

 captured in Queensland waters. 



CARANX AFFINIS, RuppdL 



Caranx affinis, Riippell, Neue Wirbelth., Fisch., 1835, p. 49, 

 pi. xiv., fig. 1. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1878, p. 219, 

 pi. xlix., fig. 4. 



Carangus affinis, Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish. 

 Comm., xxiii., pt. 1, 1905, p. 195, fig. 76. 



Two examples from Broome, north-western Australia, do 

 not differ from an Indian specimen which was identified as 

 C. a/finis by Dr. Day. The species is beautifully figured by 

 Jordan and Evermann, though their illustration does not 

 show the last dorsal and anal rays partially detached from 

 the preceding ones, as they are in my specimens. 



