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some stronger ones on the vomer. The praeoperculum is coarsely denticulated behind 

 and below ; the pectoral is not falciform. The colour is silvery below, darker above, 

 with five or six indistinct darker cross bands and a black opercular spot. 

 Length 2 inches. 



195. Caranx speciosus. [47.] 



Scomber speciosus, Forsk. p. 54. 

 Russell, ii. p. 36, pi. 149. 



Caranx speciosus, Cuv. §• Val. ix. p. 130 ; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 133 ; Peters, Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 245 

 (not Riipp.) ; Gunth. Fish. ii. p. 444. 



Aden. Zanzibar. From the Bed Sea, through all the Indian seas, to the coast of Neiv 

 Holland. 



196. Caranx ruppellii. [700.] 



Caranx petaurista, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 95, pi. 25. f. 2 (not Geoffr.) . 

 Caranx ruppellii, Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 445. 



Seychelles. Bed Sea. 



197. Caranx melampygus. [301.] 



D - 8 I 22^3- A - 2 I lV L - lat 36 - 

 Caranx melampygus, Cuv. fy Val. ix. p. 116; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 446. 



Zanzibar. Mauritius to Polynesia. 



198. Caranx hippos. [118.] 

 For synonymy see Giinther, Fish. ii. p. 449. 



Aden. Zanzibar. Atlantic coasts of temperate and tropical America. All the Indian 

 seas, to the Pacific and the shores of Australia. 



199. Caranx armatus. [74, 681, 423.] 



Scisena armata, Forsk. p. 53. 



Russell, pi. 151. p. 38 (young). 



Citula ciliaria, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 102, t. 25. f. 8. 



armata, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 102, and N. W. Fische, p. 50. 



Caranx citula, Cuv. &; Val. ix. p. 126. 



■ armatus, Cuv. ty Val. ix. p. 127 ; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 131 ; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 453. 



ciliaris, Cuv. &; Val. ix. p. 129 (young). 



cirrhosus, (Ehrenb.) Cuv. fy Val. pi. 250. 



Olistus malabaricus, Cuv. fy Val. ix. p; 137, pi. 251 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 58. f. 1. 

 ruppellii, Cuv. &; Val. ix. p. 144. 



Aden. Zanzibar. Seychelles. Bed Sea, through all Indian seas, to New Guinea. 



