232 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Pterois zebra C. V. ^ 



D. 12 + 9 ; A. 3 + 6 ; V. 6 ; P. 17 ; LI. 50 ; Ltr. 8 + 20. 



Of this specimen the dermal flaps and filaments are especially prominent. 

 The flap at tlie inner side of each anterior nostril is long and pointed ; there 

 are two barbel-like flaps, and a symphysial flap, above the edge of the inter- 

 maxillary; below the orbit above the angle of the mouth above the maxillary 

 there is a broad leaf-like flap; at the lower edge of the preopercle there are 

 two broad fan-shaped narrow based ones; and above the orbit on each side 

 there is a prominent flap with fringes. 



Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Synanceia verrucosa Bl. Scun. 



On a large and apparently very old specimen of this species taken at Thuvu, 

 Fiji Islands, the extremities of the rays on the pectoral, ventral, and anal fins 

 are encased in hardened callosities. The skin is thick and so rough and warty 

 over body and fins, and the coloration is such, that the fish bears a close resem- 

 blance to a piece of coral rock. 



Caranx parasitus. sp. nov.i 



Br. r. 7; D. 8 + 23-24 ; A. 2 -f 20; LI. 43 (on tlie straight portion). 



Several individuals of this Caranx at Cairns, Barrier Reef, Australia, "from 

 among the tentacles of Rhizostome Medusa, Crambessa viosaica Haeck." In 

 shape they approach C. hippos. The lower outline is rather more arched than 

 the upper. Height of body equal length of head, or two-sevenths of the total 

 length. Eye large, near one-third of the head. Teeth on the jaws in a single 

 series. Lateral line strongly curved anteriorly, straight from below the fifth 

 ray of the soft dorsal, keeled plates rather small. 



Body and head yellow ; back and top of head tinted with olive; chest and 

 lower part of abdomen white ; a large black opercular spot ; anterior dorsal 

 blackish; margin of second dorsal and margins and ends of caudal black. 



From the formulae this species appears closely allied to Caranx calla C. V. 

 It differs in coloration. 



Caranx regularis, sp. nov. 



Br. r. 7 ; D. 8 -f- 23 ; A. 2 + 20; P. 21 ; LI. 35 (in the straight portion). 



The upper outline of this specie#ditfers little from the lower in curvature. 

 The body is greatly compressed, the depth being more than one-third of the 

 total length. Head as deep as long, one-fourth of the total ; snout longer than 



1 Recorded as Trichiurus dec/iris Jenyns, Bull. Mus. Conip. Zoul., XXXII., p. 18. 



