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for ten clays off Darnley Island, and several were taken by the hook. 

 They seemed generally to adhere to the sides of the ship near the 

 bows by means of their suckers, but whenever anything edible or 

 looking like it was thrown from the ship, a number of them would 

 at once detach themselves and make a dash at it. These were all 

 full-grown fish, and had slightly bilobed tails. Young specimens 

 about seven inches long taken at Cape York and Warrior 

 Reef present a very different appearance. The middle rays 

 of the tail are elongate, and the outer rays of the tail and the tips 

 of the first portion of the soft dorsal and anal are of a yellowish 

 white. The number of plates on the suctorial disk is in one of the 

 young specimens twenty -four, in all the others twenty-three. 



Family Carangil\e. 



56. — Caranx armatus. 



Scicena armata, Forsk., p. 53. Gm. L., p. 1306. Russell, pi. 151, 



p. 38 (Young). 



Citula plumbea, Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Freyc. Zool. Poiss., p. 361. 



,, ciliaria, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 102, tab. 25, fig. 8. 



„ armata, Rupp. Atl. Fische, p. 103, and N. W. Fische, 



p. 50. 



Caranx citula, Cuv. and Val. 9, p. 126. 



„ armatus, Cuv. and Val. 9, p. 127 ; Cantor Catal., 



p. 131. 



„ ciliaris, Cuv. and Val. 9, p. 129 (Young) • Faun. Japan. 



Poiss., p. 112 ; Richards Ichth. China, p. 276. 



,, cirrhosus, Cuv. and Val., pi. 250. 



Olistus malabaricus, Cuv. and Val. 9, p. 137, pi. 251 ; Cuv. 



Regn. Anim., 111. Poiss., pi. 58, fig. 1. 



,, Rupellii, Cuv. and Val. 9, p. 144. 



Carangoides citula, Blecker Verh. Bat. Gren. 24, Makr., p. 65. 



This species was found at Cape York and New Guinea. 



57. — Caranx hippos. 

 Guara terebra, Marcgr., p. 172 ; Seba, 3, 27, 3. 

 Scomber hippos, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 494 (not Mitch.) ; £1. 

 Schn., p. 28 ; Forst. Descr. Anim. cur. Licht., p. 192. 



