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Fiunily SCOMBRID.E. 



72. SCOMBER JAPONICUS Houttuyn. 



One small specimen, No. 27 x, from Formosa, F. I., of some 

 mackerel, with low suborbital and rather elongate body. It ma}' be 

 Scomher janesaha Bleeker, but until these various Asiatic mackerel 

 with air-bladders have been fully compared, we are not certain that 

 any of them is separable from ScoiiJ>«'r japvulcux. 



73. SCOMBER KANAGURTA Russell. 



A small mackerel. No. 23 x, from Formosa, F. L, the body and 

 especially the head deeper than in S. japonlcris; the scales much 

 more distinct, the color silvery, the dark markings less distinct. 

 This corresponds fairly with Day's figure ' of the species he calls 

 Scmnber inicTolepidofnx. This seems to l)e different from Scomber 

 japonicim. 



74. GYMNOSARDA ALLETERATA (Rafinesque). 



One specimen. No. 2») x, from Formosa, F. I., in bad condition, 

 the spots behind pectoral o])solete. The identity of this with the 

 Atlantic species is questionable. 



75. SCOMBEROMORUS KUHLII ( Cuvicr and Valenciennes). 



One fine specimen, No. 21 x = 357, from Formosa, F. 1. Body with- 

 out streaks or spots. 



Family CARANGID.F. 



76. SCOMBEROIDES ORIENTALIS ( Schlegel) . 



One specimen, No. 327, from Giran. This species seems to differ 

 from Scomheroldes toloo { — S. mntil-petri) in the elongate body, the 

 depth being about 4 in length to base of caudal. The maxillary 

 extends not quite to posterior margin of eye. 



77. MEGALASPIS CORDYLA (Linnsus). 

 (Scomher rottli'ri Blocli. ) 



A very large specimen, No. 18 x, from Formosa, F. I. Lateral 

 plates extremely large, covering the posterior part of the body with 

 a coat of mail, much larger than in any species of Carangus. 



A fine large specimen. No. 370, from Formosa, F. I. 



78. DECAPTERUS MUROADSI (Schlegel). 



One specimen, No. 22 x, from Formosa, F. I. 



Fishes of India, pi. liv, fig. 4, 



