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row band of teeth in the upper jaw. In Blocker's account the maxil- 

 lary teeth are said to be small, equal and conspicuous. This also agrees 

 with my examples, though the transverse diffuse vertical bands were 

 not observed when they were first received. Dr. Steindachner has 

 um'ted this form^" with Caranx afflnis Riippcll,-^ basing it on Hawaiian 

 material, though Ruppell's fish never seems to have been satisfactorily 

 compared. Caranx xantliurus^'^ appears to be identical but is of later 

 pagination. 



ELAPHROTOXON subgeu. nov. 

 Type Scomber ruber Bloch. 



Subgenus Caranx Jordan and Evermann'^ is identical. Their sub- 

 genus Tricro'pterus becomes identical with subgenus Caranx as here 

 luiderstoocl. 



CEAa(fpd?j shallow; -oroi/^ bow; with reference to the slightly con- 

 vex anterior portion of lateral line.) 



Caranx ruber (Bloch). 



Scomber ruber Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fiscli., VII (X), 1793, p. 75, PI. 3-J2. 

 Bey der Insel St. Croix. (Dr. Isert.) 



One from New Providence (Bahamas), Coll. Dr. H. C. Wood. 



Subgenus C;aRANX Lacepede. 

 Caranx hippos (LinnEeus). 



Scomber hippos Ijinnseus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, Reformata, 1766, p. 494. 

 Carolina. (D. Garden.) 



Newport (Rhode Island), Beasley's Point (New Jersey), San Do- 

 mingo (West Indies), Pernambuco (Brazil). 



VEXILLICARANX subgen. nov. 

 Type Caranx africanus Steindachner. 



Inner teeth in each jaw minute, |:)ointed, equal, and forming a nar- 

 row band, at least in front. Outer teeth a little enlarged and forming 

 a single series at least, in each jaw. Breast naked. No opercular 

 spot. Anterior rays of soft dorsal and anal produced into long slender 

 falcate lobes. Pectoral long, falcate. Anterior curved portion of 

 lateral line a little less than half of remaining straight portion. Adi- 

 pose eyelid rather narrow. 



{Vexillum, streamer; Caranx, from Carangue, French vernacular.) 



2«S?72. Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXXXIII, 1881, p. 211. 

 2' Neue Wirbelthiere, Fisch., 1835, p. 49, PI. 14, fig. 1. Massaua. 

 2^ Kuhl and Van Hasselt, in Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, p. 41. Java. 

 ^MM. Kuhl and Van Hasselt.) 

 " Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. (Fish. N. Mid. Am.), No. 47, I, 1896, p. 916. 



