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at hand and confused them, a thing quite easy to do unless the length 

 of the snout and maxillary, number of rays in doi-sal and anal, and 

 number of scutes are noted. The shape of the curved part of the 

 lateral line is also different in the two. 



CARANX DJEDABA (ForskSl). 



Twenty-seven specimens, 90 to 180 mm, long. Batavia. 



One specimen is aberrant in head and depth, but the others appear 

 to form a veiy natural group. 



Tliis is possibly different from the Caranx djeddaha of Ruppell,^ 

 which has a larger fin count in dorsal and anal. It is the Caranx 

 djeddaha of Day and the Selar livMii of Blocker.^ 



The Caranx vari of Cuvier and Valenciennes may be the same as the 

 C. djeddaha of Riippell. 



CARANX KALLA Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



One specimen, 95 mm. long. Batavia. 



This specimen is very young and lacks the falcate pectoral which 

 appears in young of other species at similar sizes. It seems to be, 

 however, the Caranx Jcalla of Cuvier and Valenciennes and the Caranx 

 hreins of Bleeker and of Giinther. The Caranx calla of Giinther may be 

 a different species with a shorter head. 



CARANX LEPTOLEPIS (Cuvier and Valenciennes), 



One specimen, 130 mm. long. Batavia. 



This fish was identified by Nichols as C. georgianus, but an exami- 

 nation of specimens of georgianus from AustraUa, the typo-locahty, 

 shows that the latter are a different species with longer head, greater 

 depth, smaller eye, longer snout, fewer gill-rakers, and fewer scutes. 

 Also the scutes on the Australian specimens are much larger. 



This specimen agrees well with the description of C. leptolepis, the 

 type of which came originally from Java, except that the snout is a 

 httle shorter than there recorded. This discrepancy may be parth'' 

 due to differences in method of measurement. If the snout of our 

 specimen is measured from the front edge of the iris it is equal in 

 length to the diameter of the iris. 



CARANX IRE (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



One specimen, 130 mm. long. Batavia. 



Our specimen differs somewhat from a Phihppine specimen also 

 identified as C. ire in head and depth, but we lack material to settle 

 the matter. Either specimen fits the descriptions fairly well. 



CARANX ATROPUS (Bloch and Schneider). 



Two specimens, each 75 mm. long. Batavia. 



The head is considerably longer and the ventral fins much shorter 

 than in current descriptions. In some respects these fish seem to be 



> Atlas Fische, p. 97. * Makieelacbtigen Fiache, p, 54. 



