1905.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 87 



blackish, and long dorsal lobe dark like outer portions of caudal lobe. 

 A small blackish spot on edge of opercle, and a brown blotch over eye. 

 Length 17 inches. Padang, Sumatra. Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and 

 Dr. H. M. Hiller. Three examples. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. and Stan- 

 ford Um'versity. 



Two are young, much deeper, and also have much longer anterior 

 dorsal and anal rays. Ventral filamentous, reaching base of caudal. 

 When fresh in arrack color was silvery, glaucous or slaty-gray above. 

 Side with six broad bands of darker glaucous fading out below. Outer 

 portions of all prolonged rays of dorsal and anal blackish. Ventral 

 entirely black, other fins pale. They agree perfectly with examples 

 from Cavite, Philippine Islands, in Stanford University, and also with 

 the examples recorded from Formosa as Alcctis ciliaris by Drs. Jordan 

 and Evermann,^^ as I found when compared. 



Alectis crinitus (Mitchill). 



Zeus crinitus Mitchill, Amer. Journ. Sci. Art., XI, 182G, p. 144. Block 

 Island. 



Newport (Rhode Island), Key West (Florida), and San Domingo 



(West Indies). 



Alectis ciliaris (Bloch),^^ the Indian form, may be different. 



Vomer setapinnis (Mitchill). 



Zeus setapinnis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Philos. Soc. New York, I, 1815, p. 384, 

 PI. 1, fig. 9. Bay of New York. 



Vomer curtus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, p. 119. North Ameri- 

 can Atlantic coast, the precise locality not recorded. (Bonaparte Coll., 

 A. N. S. P.) 



Head 3; depth Iji; D. ii,IV-I, 23; A. I. 19. Gill-rakers 8 + 23, 

 compressed, longest about f of orbit, and longest filament about f of 

 longest raker. Length 9f inches. West coast of Africa, probably at 

 Gabun river. Dr. J. L. Leconte. Also another with same data, 

 but smaller. It has 25 soft dorsal rays, and would appear to 

 differ from Vomer dorsalis only in its greater depth. Dr. Stein- 

 dachner, who has examined the types of Vomer goreensis Guichenot 

 and Vomer senegalensis Guichenot, long ago concluded that they 

 were identical with Vomer setapinnis (Mitchill).^" He also pointed 

 out the fact that Vomer gabonensis Guichenot represents a dis- 

 tinct species. Panama examples of about 8^ inches in length have 



" Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1903, p. 338. 



^^ Zeus ciliaris Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fisch., Ill (VI), 1787, p. 36, PI. 191. 

 Suratte. [India.] (Doctor Konig.) [I have not been able to consult Rafinesque's 

 account of Alectis in "Analyse de la Nature ou Tableau de L'Univers et des Corps 

 Organises, 1815."] 



" Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, LX, 1869 (1870), p. 706. 



