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Carangoides malabaricus (Schneider). 



Scomber malabaricus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 31. Habitat 

 cum antecedente [which is "ad Tranquebariam"]. 



Head SyV; depth 2; D. VIII-I, 22; A. II-I, 18; scales 65 in lateral 

 line, and scutes about 30; pectoral 1 in head; ventral about 4; snout 

 3^ from tip of upper jaw; eye 2|; maxillary 2\; interorbital space 3^. 

 Gill-rakcrs 11 + 22, and a little longer than filaments. Scutes small 

 and weak. Color when fresh in arrack slaty-brown above, top of head 

 grayish or leaden, greater portion of sides and all of lower surface 

 whitish washed everywhere with silvery. Upper edge of opercle with 

 a small blackish spot. Axil of pectoral brownish. Fins plain or dilute 

 brownish. Length 4y^g- inches. Padang, Sumatra. Alfred C. Harri- 

 son, Jr., and Dr. H. M. Hiller. Two examples. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 and Stanford University. 



Carangoides oblongas (Cuvier). 



Caranx oblongus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, p. 96. Vanicolo. 

 (MM. Quoy and Gaimard.) Oualan. (M. de Mertens.) 



Head 3^; depth 2A; D. VIII-I, 21; A. II-I, 18; scales 59 in lateral 

 line, and scutes 39; snout 3 in head ; eye3f; maxillary 24; interorbital 

 space 4^; ventral about 2; pectoral 21- in body, without caudal. 

 Gill-rakers 7 + 16, ii, long, compressed, and about equal to filaments 

 of half of eye. Color when fresh in arrack leaden-gray above, silvery- 

 white below, and everywhere more or less silvery. On back between 

 bases of each fin ray a bluish-gray blotch. Basal portion of anterior 

 soft dorsal and anal rays tinged with pale yellowish. Length 11 inclies. 

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

 examples. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. and Stanford University. 



CITULA Cuvier. 



Regne Animal, Ed. I, II, 1817, p. 31.5 (armata). Cuvier, I.e., Ed. II, 



II, 1829, p. 209 



Subgenus CITULA Cuvier. 



Vcntrals short and pale. Straight portion of lateral line beginning 

 well beyond origin of soft dorsal. 



Citula armata (Forskil). 



Scicena armata Fonskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 53. [Red Sea.^ 

 Citula atropoii Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XII (2), 1904, p. 513, 

 PI. 14, lower figure to left. (Not of Schneider.) 



Head 3yV; depth 2; D. VIII-I, 22; A. II-I, 18; P. ii, 19; V. I, 5; 



scales 95 in curved portion of lateral line, and about 32 in remaim'ng 

 short straight portion; about 25 scales between soft dorsal and upper 

 curved portion of lateral line; width of head 2f in its length; depth 



