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 C— CAEAXX GYMNOSTETHOIDES (Bleeker) Giiutlier. 



Carangoides gymnostetlwidcis Blkr. Makreelacbtige Vissclieu, p. 61 ; " Blkr. Nat. T. Ned. 



Iiul. i, p. 364 " ; Blkr. Spec. Pise. Archip. ludic. p. 41, 1859 (Java). 

 Caranx fiymnostethoides, Gtlir. Cat. Fisli. Brit. Mus. ii, 431 (Sea of Batavia). 



BaUtat— Java, Sea of Batavia, Johnston's Island. 



Head 3f (4); depth 3 (3|); D. VII-I, 31; A. II-I, 26. 



Body elliptical, compressed; profile convex from snout to nostril, 

 thence regularly arched to caudal; the ventral outline less convex, be- 

 ing- almost straight from head to anal. Head longer than deep ; snout 

 rather blunt, 3 in head. Mouth low, somewhat oblique ; maxillary 2-^% in 

 head, extending opposite front of pupil; lower jaw little produced. 



Teeth in villiform bauds on jaws, vomer, palatines, and a patch on 

 the tongue. Eye large, 1^ in snout, 4| in head. Adipose eyelid little 

 developed. Cheeks and temporal regions with fine scales ; head other- 

 wise naked. Scales rather small, those below pectoral smaller. A 

 naked area on breast not widening forward from base ofventralsas 

 much as in C. orthof/rammiis J. «& G. 



Lateral line but little curved, arched above pectorals, and gradually be- 

 coming straight at their tips ; greatest depth of the arch about equal to 

 pupil, the arched part of the line longer than the straight. Plates de- 

 veloi)ed only in the posterior half of the straight part; the plates small 

 with low keels, their spines little prominent; 25 developed plates, includ- 

 ing small ones. 



Spinous dorsal rather weak, the highest spine l^ in snout (these spines 

 probably varying according to the age). Soft dorsal long and low, with 

 slender rays; a well-developed scaly basal sheath anteriorly; the first 

 articulate ray is If in base of fin and 1^ in head. Anal similar to soft 

 dorsal. First free anal spine nearly obsolete, secoud small. 



Caudal lobes moderate, equal, 14 in head; their length is much less 

 than the depth from tip to tip. 



Pectorals falcate, their tips slender, reaching tenth ray of anal ; their 

 length 2J in body (from snout to base of caudal flu) ; ventrals 2f in 

 head. 



Color, in spirits, about as in C. ortJiogrammus. 



One fine specimen (26839), 15h inches in length. 



7.— HOLOCENTEUS LEO Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Holocentrum leo C. & V. Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 204, 1829 (Society andWaigiou Islands); 

 "Less.Voy.Coquille,ii,222"j "Ciiv.EegueAnim.Ill.pl. 14, f.l."; "Blkr. Kokos 

 Islands, iii, 355, 1855"; Blkr. Ennm. Spec. Pise. Archip. ludic. 2, 1859 (Cocos, 

 Batu,- Celebes, Batjau, Amboyua); Blkr. Nat. T. Ned. lud. vii, 355; "Blkr. 

 Voy. Astrol. Poiss. p. 678, pi. 14, f. 3"; Blkr. Couspec. Molucc. Cognit. p. 5 

 (Batjau, Amboyua, Archip. Molucca; name only); Blkr. Beschrij. Viscb. 

 Mauado Makassar, pp. 3, 13 (Mauado; name only); Blkr. Achtste Bijd. Visch. 

 Amboiua, pp. 3, 13; Blkr. Nieuwe Verzam. Visscben Batjau, p. 3. 



