BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 537 



D. 7-8. 1/20-21. A. 2. 1/16-17. L. lat. 20. 



Bands of villiform teeth in the jaws, teeth on the vomer, 

 palatines and tongue. The first ray of the dorsal and anal fins, 

 and in males generally some of the middle ones, exceedingly 

 elongate and filiform. Height of body half the length. Snout 

 obtuse, equal to the diameter of the eye ; lower jaw longest ; the 

 maxillary reaches beyond the vertical from the anterior margin 

 of the orbit. Breast naked; lateral line moderately bent, 

 becoming straight below the posterior haK of the soft dorsal, the 

 plates little developed. Opercular spot brown, the body banded 

 in young specimens ; the fii-st ray of the dorsal and anal fins 

 generally black, ventrals blackish. 



Cape York (Chevert Exp.) 



362. Oaranx radiatus, n. sp. 



D. 6, 1/23. A. 2. 1/19. 



Small teeth in the jaws and on the vomer and palate. An 

 outer series of rather larger teeth in the jaws ; body compressed, 

 the height about one-third of the length ; snout more than the 

 diameter of the eye ; the maxillary reaching to the vertical from 

 near the middle of the eye. Scales small, adherent, covering the 

 whole body; lateral line much curved on the fii^st third, the straight 

 portion commencing below the commencement of the second 

 dorsal, strongly keeled and occupying forty-one scales. All the 

 rays of the dorsal and anal fins prolonged into filaments, with a 

 very large skinny sheath for their reception ; tail small, spreading, 

 and deeply forked ; pectorals extending to about the tenth plate 

 of the straight portion of the lateral line. Colour, (spirit 

 specimen) brownish-silvery. 



Eockingham Bay (Eamsay's Coll.) 



363. Caranx ciliaris, B1. 

 Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 454.— Jour. Mus. Q-odeff. Heft. V., t. 89. 



