74 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Jan., 



related, but differs in having shorter scutes. The fig\u-e shows them 



a Httle over 5 in greatest depth of bod3^ Bloch remarks " les opercules 



sontunis; et Ton discerne une tache blue sur le posterieur," though 



it is not indicated on his figure. Cuvier considered Caranx peronii^^ 



very close, if not identical. C. megalaspis is also related to C. hoops 



Cuvier, but the scutes of that species range from 45 to 50, while in 



the former they are seldom over 40." No trac(> of a yellow longitudinal 



band observed. 



Caranx mate Cuvier. 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, p. 40. Pondichery. Des Sechelles. (M. Dussu- 

 mier.) Nouvelle-Guinee. (MM. Quoy and Gaimard.) D'etroit d'Antjer. 



(M. Raynaud.) Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XII (2), 1904. 



p. 510, PL 13, lower figure. 



Head 3^; depth 3f ; D. VIII-I, 23; A. II-I, 19; P. ii, 19; V. I, 5: 

 scales 50 in lateral line, remaining scutes about 42; 10 scales between 

 origin of spinous dorsal and lateral line in a vertical series ; about 30? 

 scales between latter and anus (squamation injured); width of head 

 IfL in its length; depth of head H; mandible 2^; third dorsal spine 

 2yL; first dorsal ray 2-^, first anal ray 2J; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 7^; snout 3^, in head, measured from its tip; eye 4; maxil- 

 lary 2f ; interorbital space 3^; pectoral 3 in head and trunk. 



Body compressed, deep, anterior profiles evenly convex, and lo\A-er 

 becoming more so posteriorly so that greatest depth is at spinous anal. 

 Caudal peduncle slender, broadly depressed, so that its least depth is 3 

 and its least width 2 in its length. 



Head compressed, deep, and pointed in front. Snout conic, pointed . 

 but with upper jaw projecting. Eye small, anterior, and with broad 

 adipose eyelids, only a vertical slit eciual in width to half its diameter 

 exposed. Mouth inclined and slightly curved, and mandible project- 

 ing beyond upper jaw. Lips fleshy, and on each ramus of mandible 

 broad and thick. Maxillary reaching a little beyond front rim of eye. 

 its upper edge entirely slipping below broad preorbital, and its distal 

 (xpanded extremity half of orbit. A short oblique groove continued 

 down from lower angle of maxillary when mouth is closed. Teeth in 

 jaws small, sharp pointed, and uniserial. Vomer and palatines with 

 jjatches of minute teeth. Tongue elongate, free, and rounded in front, 

 its upper surface with minute asperities. Nostrils small, high on snout, 

 but nearer eye than tip of former. Interorbital space elevated, giving 

 place to median keel which begins over nostrils and extends to occiput. 



18 Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, p. 84. Vanicolo. (MM. Quoy and Gaimard.) 

 Amboine. Java. Malabar. 



i' L. c, p. 35. Amboine. (MM. Quoy and Gaimard.) Vanicolo. 



