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covering the base of all the rays of pectoral except tlie lower, and 

 exteiuliiig on the fin for a distance greater than \; length of lin ; inside of 

 month and lining of oi>ercle8 not black. Length 12 inches. A single 

 specimen (Type, No. 29,341) was taken in the Bay of Panama, {aicvi 

 black; mainis, hand.) 

 Caranx ulriiiiamis, Jordan A Gii.hert, Bull. U. S. Fisli Comin., i, 1881, 308, Panama. 



1307. HEMICARANX SECINDUS (Poey). 



(SeGUNDO ; V(JI,ANTIN.) 



Head 4i in total with caudal ; depth 3. D. VII-I, 30; A. II, I, 22 ; eye 

 5 in head. Body oval, moderately elevated, the curve of the front a little 

 greater than that of throat. Maxillary reaching first fourth of eye; 

 adipose eyelid well developed ; scales very small; pectoral long, falcate, 

 the bucklers of lateral line beginning opposite its point, large and 

 numerous; curve of lateral line not described. Caudal lobes not widely 

 separated, jirobably subequal; dorsal and anal without salient lobe. Pale 

 violet above, white below; sides with 6 broad dark bauds, lost with age; 

 fins mostly blackish, the caudal greenish ; throat blackish. Ca'ca 20. 

 Cuba; not very common, reaching a weight of 3 pounds; used as food. 

 (Poey); not seen by us. (dccuncliif!, second, from the Spanish name Sojiintlo. 

 " J'ignore le motif qui I'a fait nommer ainsi." — Poey.) 



Caranx seatndns, Poey, Memorias, il, 223, 1860, Cuba. (Coll. Poey.) 



Carangops setimdns, Poey, Synopsis, 367, 1867. 



.* CaruHx fuxcialns, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 70, 1833, Mexico; on adnivv- 



ing by MociGNO & LESsfi; a banded species, with angle of lateral line under front of soft 



dorsal. 



1308, HEMICARANX FURTHII (Steindachner) 



Head 3^ : depth 2; eye 3^ in head. D. VIII-I, 28; A. II-I, 24; scutes 

 57. Body deep, strongly compressed, the back arched, the ventral line 

 little curved. Maxillary reaching pupil. Dorsal and anal fins rather high, 

 but the anterior rays not exserted beyond the rest ; highest rays of dor- 

 sal, 1* in length of head ; sheath at base of dorsal little developed ; cau- 

 dal fin not deeply forked ; pectoral moderate, as long as head, twice length 

 of ventral ; curve of lateral line not quite twice in straight part. Scutes 

 small, but each ending in a spine. Teeth slender, rather long, uniserial 

 above and below ; no teeth on vomer or palatines. Body everywhere 

 finely punctulate, with 6 rather sharply defined broad dark bars, besides 

 one on the head ; pectoral and caudal yellowish ; other fins dawk gray ; 

 axil with some dusky ; caudal fin pale. Pacific coast of tropical America, 

 known from three specimens, the largest 5 inches long, from Panama. 

 (Steindachner.) Perhaps not distinct from Caranx leacurus. (Named ibr 

 Ignatius Furth, Austrian Consul at Panama.) 

 Caranx fiirlhU, Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., iv, 12, 187.5, Panama, (('oil. Fiirtli.) 



1309. HEMICARAXX LEUCURUS (Giinther). 



Head 3; depth 2. D. VIII-I, 2f^; A. II-I, 24 to 2(5; scutes 50; snout 

 rather obtuse, the jaws e(iual, the maxillary reaching past front of eye 



