32 Fishes of the South Pae/Jie. 



Caranx lugubris Poey. 



One specimen, No. 1991 B. M., Rarotonga, Cook Ids. 

 Four specimens, Nos. 2266-2269 B.M., from Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas Ids. 



One specimen. No. 1274 B. M., from Shortlaud, Solomons. 

 One specimen, No. 1407 B. M., from Tahiti. 



Caranx melampygus (Cuvicr & Valenciennes). 



Depth 2.75; head 3.50; eye 4, a posterior adipose lid; scutes 

 34; D. VII, 22; A. I, 19; interorbital space 3.50. 



Body oblong, compressed, the back evenly curved. Head 

 compressed, mouth low, oblique, the lower jaw slightly projecfting; 

 maxillary scarcely reaching to below anterior margin of eye; teeth 

 of upper jaw in villiform bands, with an outer row of larger canine- 

 like teeth; low^er jaw with a single row of small teeth; teeth on 

 vomer, palatine, and tongue; breast and cheeks seal}'; lateral 

 line arched, becoming straight under the fifth dorsal ray; a recum- 

 bent spine under the skin; soft dorsal and anal fins similar, falcate 

 in front, the dorsal the highest; pecftorals 3 in length of head and 

 body; ventrals short, 2 in head; caudal well forked, the lobes 

 equal. 



Color in spirits, olivaceous, bluish above, opercular spot obso- 

 lete; caudal, dorsal, and anal tipped with dusky. 



Three specimens from Tubuai Ids., of Austral Group, Nos. 

 742*, 780, 782 B. M. 



Two specimens, Nos. 121 2 and 1213* B. M., from Shortlaud, 

 Solomon Ids. 



One specimen. No. 2271 B.M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 



Three specimens, Nos. 947, 943 and 948 B. M., from Fate, 

 New Hebrides. 



Family PEMPHERID^. 



Pempheris mangula Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



One specimen. No. 1511 B. M., from Tahiti. 



Family APOGONICHTHYID.E. 

 Atnia amboinensis Bleeker. 



One specimen of this species was taken at vShortland Id., Solo- 

 mons, No. 1307 B. M. 



Color in life, pale yellow, with two bright yellow stripes, made 

 up of round dots, along the sides; four golden dots on opercles; 

 fins all yellowish; eye blue, with narrow blue line from eye around 

 tip of snout. 



Atnia novemfasciata (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Two specimens, Nos. 985 and 1016* B. M., from Fate, New 

 Hebrides. 



