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Caranz africanus Steindachner. 



Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXXXVIII, 1S83 (1884), p. 1108, PI. 7, fig. 1. Goree. 

 (Herr W. Hofler.) Kiiste Liberia's. (Herr Biittikofer.) Lagos und 

 der Loango-Kiiste. [All Coll. Vienna Mus.] 



Head 3f ; depth 2^; D. I, VIII-I, 21; A. II-I, 18; keeled scutes 44 

 in straight portion of lateral line ; fourth erect dorsal spine 2^ in head ; 

 first developed anal ray 1^; ventral (damaged) about 21; mandible 2; 

 snout 3f in head, from tip of upper jaw; eye 3|; maxillary 2f ; inter- 

 orbital space 3^ ; least depth of caudal peduncle 5. Maxillary reaching 

 about opposite first f of orbit, and its expanded extremity 2 in latter. 

 Rakers 13 + 28, slender, compressed, much longer than filaments or 

 about f of orbit. Anus a little before tips of ventrals. Deepest scute 

 about 8^ in greatest depth of body. Long falcate dorsal lobe reaching 

 when depressed at least opposite base of last dorsal ray. Pectoral 2|- in 

 head and trunk. Length 9f inches. West Africa. Dr. H. E. Savage. 



Subgenus PARATRACTUS Gill. 



Caranx crysos (Mitchill). 



Scomber cryf:os Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Philos. Soc. New York, I, 1815, p. 424, 

 PI. 4, fig. 2. Bay of New York. 



Nantucket (Massachusetts) and Newport (Rhode Island). 



Caranx pisquetus Cuvier. 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833. p. 73. Saint-Domingue. Cuba. Bresil. 



Head 3f ; depth 3i; D. VIII-I, 23; A. II-I, 20; P. ii, 20; V. I, 5; 

 scales about 46 in lateral line, and remaining keeled scutes about 45; 

 about 16 scales between spinous dorsal and lateral line in a vertical 

 series, and about 24 between latter and origin of rayed anal similarly; 

 width of head lf*g- in its length; depth of head If; mandible 2; third 

 dorsal spine 2f ; first dorsal ray 1^; first anal ray 2^; length of ven- 

 tral 2^; snout 3^ in head, measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 5^'; 

 maxillary 2f ; interorbital space 3 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 7f ; 

 pectoral 2| in head and trunk; upper caudal lobe 3f . 



Body elongate fusiform, compressed, and greatest depth at origin 

 of anal. Lower profile a little more convex than upper. Caudal 

 peduncle slender, its least depth about 3^ in its length. 



Head moderately large, robust, compressed, and upper profile evenly 

 and a little more convex than lower. Snout a little long, convex, and 

 upper jaw well protruding in front. Eye orbicular, its lower rim about 

 level with middle of greatest depth, and its posterior rim a little pos- 

 terior in length of head. Mouth little inclined, and mandible produced 

 a little beyond tip of upper jaw. Lips rather thick and fleshy. Max- 

 illary reaching at least opposite middle of orbit, its distal expanded 



