1905.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 59 



all details. One is very young, measuring 2^ inches. It has : Head 3^ ; 

 depth Sf. Body strongly compressed, and of more fusiform profile. 

 Spines large, fifth longest. Second anal spine reaching past origin of 

 soft anal fin which is inserted a little behind that of soft dorsal. Ven- 

 tral equally as long as pectoral, and reaching a little beyond anus, 

 but not quite to origin of spinous anal. Pectoral broad. 



Scomberoides toloo-parah (Riippcll)^ from the Red Sea needs com- 

 parison. The synonomies of the species of Scomberoides appear to have 

 been greatly confused. Gray's moluccensis seems to be the oldest 

 name available for the East Indian form, with which I also identify 

 that from Polynesia. 



RHAPHIOLEPIS subseii. nov. 



Type Chorinemus tol Cuvier. 



Scales elongate and slender. Approaching Oligoplites. 



{'Fd(pui'^^ a small needle; /le::;'?, a scale.) 



Scomberoides tol (Cuvier). 



Chorinemus tol Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 1831, p. 283. Pondichery. 

 (M. Leschenault.) La cote de Malabar. (MM. Dussumier et Belenger.) 

 Amboine. He de Bourou. (MM. Quoy and Gaimard.) (Probably not 

 Tol parnh Russell.) 



Head 4|; depth 4; D. I, VII-I, 20; A. II-I, 19; P. ii, 15; V. I, 5; 

 width of head 2^ in its length; depth of head If; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 5; pectoral lyf ; ventral 2; snout 3^, from its tip; eye 4f ; 

 maxillary 2; interorbital space 3f. Gill-rakers 8+18, compressed, 

 slender, pointed, with minute bristles on their inner surfaces and long- 

 est nearly equal to longest filaments. Color when fresh in arrack rich 

 slaty-gray above, deep or blackish along profile of back, and a deep 

 blackish streak above eye along side of head above till over base of 

 pectoral. Sides of body and lower surface silvery-white with about 

 five distinct pale gray blotches anteriorly. ' Spinous dorsal gray-black. 

 Soft dorsal dull or pale yellowish-white, except upper or outer portions 

 of anterior rays which are black. Caudal grayish. Anal, pectoral and 

 ventral whitish. Axil of pectoral blackish. Iris pale yellowish. Peri- 

 toneum pale or w^hitish. Length 9 inches. One example from Padang, 

 Sumatra. Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and Dr. H. M. Hiller. 



Russell's poor figure^ cannot be certainly identified with this species. 



Oligoplites saurus (Schueider). 



Scomber saurua Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 32. Jamaica. 

 (Based on Browne.) 



Fort Macon (North Carolina), Key West (Florida). Young exam- 



' Lichia toloo-parah Cuvier, in Riippell, Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika^ 

 ZooL, 1828, p. 91. Massaua. 



2 Tol parah Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, II, 1803, PI. 138. 



