56 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Jan., 



NEW, RARE OR LITTLE-KNOWN SCOMBROIDS. No. II. 



BY HENRY W. FOWLER. 



OARANGID^. 

 SCOMBEROIDIN.E. 

 SCOMBEROIDES Lac^pfede. 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 50 (noelii). 

 Dorsal spines I, VII. Pterygoid teeth present. 



Subitenus SCOMBEKOIDES Lac6pMe. 



Scales shorter, not very elongate, or more normally developed. 



Soomberoides toloo (Cuvier). 



Chorinemus toloo Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 1831, p. 277. Malabar. 

 (M. Belenger.) (Based on Toloo parah Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, II, 

 1803, p. 29, PI. 137. Vizagapatam.) 



Head 4f ; depth 3^; D. I, VII-I, 20; A. II-I, 18; P. ii, 15; V. I. 5; 

 width of head 2| in its length; depth of head l^; mandible If; fifth 

 dorsal spine 5|-; first dorsal ray If; first anal spine 4^; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 4^; pectoral 1^; ventral 2; snout 3|, from tip of upper 

 jaw ; eye 4 ; maxillary If. Gill-rakers 3 + 9, compressed, pointed, 

 and with fine bristles on inner edges. Longest about f of longest fila- 

 ments. Longest filaments about | of orbit. Color when fresh in 

 arrack slaty-gray above, sides and lower surface silvery-white. Top of 

 head, snout, and upper marginal portion of back grayish. On sides 

 a little above, about six daubs or blotches of grayish. Soft dorsal dull 

 or pale yellowish-white on basal portion, upper part grayish. Ventral 

 and anal similar. Axil of pectoral dusky. Iris pale yellowish. Peri- 

 toneum whitish. Length 13 inches. Four examples, one now in 

 Stanford University. Padang, Sumatra. Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and 

 Dr. H. M. Hiller. 



Soomberoides moluccensis (Gray). 



Thynnus moluccensis Gray, Cat. Fish Gronow Brit. Mus., 1854, p. 121. 



Insulas Moluccenses. (Britisli Museum.) 

 Chorinemus sancti petri Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Genoot. (Bijd. Makreel. Vissch. 



Soend. Mohik. Arch.), XXIV, 1852, p. 45. Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., II, 1860, p. 473. Giinther, Journ. Mus. Godef. (Fische der Stidsee), 



V, 1876, p. 138. (Part. Not of Cuvier.) 



Head 4^; depth 3i; D. I, VII-I, 20; A. II-I, IS; P. ii, 16; V. I, 5; 



