THE SHORE EISHES. 2G9 



29800, 08844, M. C. Z. 29810, 08842, 08839, :M. C". Z. 29800, 3 to 4| inches loii^ 

 from Funafuti, Ellico Islands. One specimen. No. 09087, 3i inches long from 

 Marshall Islands. 



Caranx ignobilis (Eokskal). 

 Dcsfi-ipt. Anim., 177.1, p. 0.-1. .Jordan & Skai.e, Bull. V. S. Bur. Fish., lOOB, 25, p. 2.S1. 



Nos. A6, A8, A9, M. C. Z. 29751, each 14 inches long from Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas Islands. 



There are about thirty-three scutes, counting all in straight portion of 

 lateral line; there are more than twenty-seven shown in the figures of Rtippell 

 (C. saufsuii) and Jordan i*c Evermaim, when counted as above. 



Caranx ferdau ('Eorsk.Il). 



GtiNTHER, Fische der Siidsee, 1S76, 5, p. 134, taf. 87, 88. 



Scomber ferdau Forsk.^l, Descript. Anim., 177.5, p. .5.5. 



Carangoides ferdav Jordan & Eveemann, Bull. V. S. Fish. Con!m., 190.5, 23, pi. 1, p. lOS, fifj. 77. 



No. A71, a .specimen 13^ inches long from Makemo, Paumotu Islands. 



Head 3.42 in length to base of caudal; depth 2.43; eye 4.75 in head; snout 

 3.04; maxillary 2.53; pectoral 2.57 in length to base of caudal, slightly shorter 

 than longest dorsal ray; base of dorsal 2.2o in length to base of caudal, slightly 

 greater than its longest ray; longest anal ray 3.()(); base of anal ecjual to pectoral; 

 dorsal rays 31; anal 26; scutes 29 on right side, 25 on left. 



Color: no spots now evident on body; axil of pectoral dusky; margin of 

 soft anal pale. 



This specimen is somewhat deeper than indicated by most descriptions and 

 seems most like that represented by Giinther's Siidsee, plate 87 ; it also has many 

 points in common with Caranx gilberti Jordan & Seale in Fishes Samoa, p. 234. 



Trachinotus Lacepede. 



Day's description and figure of Trachynotus baiUonii do not agree. It is 

 stated that "the maxillary nearly reaches to beneath the centre of the orbit," 

 but in the figure it barely reaches the front of the eye. It is also stated that the 



