BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 60S 



349. CaRAJ^X ilALABARICUS, BL 



Gunth. Oat. Fishes II., p. 436. 

 D. 8. 1/21-22. A. 2. 1/17. L. lat. 25-30. 



Teeth, in the jaws, minute, villiform, arranged in bands ; teeth 

 on tho vomer, palatine bones, and tongue. Height of body twice 

 and a-quarter to twice and three quarters in the total length, the 

 length of the head three and two-thirds to four-times. Snout 

 obtuse, rather longer than the diameter of the eye ; lower jaw 

 longer than the upper : the maxillary bone reaches to or slightly 

 beyond the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye ; the 

 prceorbital above the angle of the mouth not so high as the orbit. 

 Breast naked, the lateral line moderately bent, becoming straight 

 behind the middle of the second dorsal ; the plates little developed. 

 Fins pointed without filiform ray. Opercular spot brown ; the 

 dorsal and anal fins with a brown margin, ventrals and anal 

 whitish. 



Australia, (Macgillivray's collection.) 



350. Oaranx geobgianus, Ouv. & Val. 



Gunth. Oat. Fishes II., p. 440.— Eichards, Fishes Ereb. & Terr., 



p. 135, pi. 58, fig. 1-3. 



" White Trevalhj " of the Sydney Fishermen. 



D. 8. 1/26-29. A. 2/1/22-24. L. lat. 20-25. 



Teeth small in the jaws and on the vomer, palatine bones and 

 tongue. Height of body three and a-third to three and three- 

 quarter times in the total length, the length of tho head four to 

 four and a-half . Upper jaw a little the longer ; the maxillary 

 does not quite reach the vertical from the anterior margin of the 

 orbit. Breast scaly ; the lateral line follows the curvature of the 

 back and becomes straight below the middle of the soft dorsal ; 

 the plates little developed. Opercular spot and top of spinous 

 dorsal black. 



All Australian Seas. 



