262 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vor,. 56. 



Color in alcohol dark brown above, paler to whitish below, with 

 silvery reflection. Along side from shoulder to caudal base pale 

 leaden band, below dorsal apparently wide as pupil, but ill defined. 

 Iris pale. Fins brownish; dorsal, pectoral, and caudal darker, and 

 dorsal nearly blackish behind. Length, 545 mm. (beak and caudal 

 damaged). 



Compared with an example I identified as Tylosurus crocodilus 

 (Le Sueur) from Sumatra,' about 622 mm. long, the scale structure 

 is similar, and no specific characters of strong contrast noted. In 

 the Sumatra specimen the scales are larger, about 315 in a lateral 

 series to the caudal base, less narrowly imbricated, and the median 

 and last dorsal rays lower or at least not twice least depth of caudal 

 peduncle. The Sumatra fish has larger predorsal scales, about 290. 

 Peters records Belone carihaea Le Sueur from Victoria,^ which possi- 

 bly may be the present species. It apparently differs in having 210 

 predorsal scales 



CAKANX AFRICANUS Steindachner. 



Head, 3i ; depth, 2f; D. VIII— i, 21; A. II— i, 18; lateral line 

 of 32 tubes and 44 scutes, curved portion twice that of straight por- 

 tion; snout, 3J in head measured from upper jaw tip; eye, 3|; m.ax- 

 iUary, 2f; interorbital, 3J ; rakers, 12 + 28, lanceolate, 1^ in eye. 

 Adipose eyelid moderate. Breast naked. Dorsal filament sUghtly 

 longer than pectoral. Color in alcohol brown above, white below. 

 Outer dorsal and anal membranes of rayed fins brownish, others pale. 

 Length, 254 mm. 



VOMER SETAPINNIS (Mitchill). 



One example, 220 mm. Depth, 2. Rakers, 6 + 31. 



POMADASIS JUBELINI (Cuvier). 



Head, 2§ ; depth, 2§ ; D. XI, I, 14; A. Ill, 9; scales, 51 in lateral 

 fine to caudal base and 13 more on latter; 5 scales above lateral line, 

 12 below; snout, 2| in head; eye, 4:1; maxillary, 3f; interorbital, 4J. 



Body compressed, back well arched, and profile evenly convex over 

 ventral base. Caudal peduncle compressed, least depth 3f in head. 

 Head width 2J its length. Snout conic, width, H its length. Eye 

 close to upper profile, shghtly advanced. Mouth small, nearly hori- 

 zontal; lower jaw shorter. Maxillary to hind nostril. Lips fleshy. 

 Teeth fine, in bands in jaws; outer upper slightly enlarged; none on 

 vomer. Symphysis with pair of pores and larger median pit little 

 back. Nostrils together; front one large, close to middle of front 

 eye rim. Interorbital slightly convex. Hind preopercle edge undu- 

 late, sparsely denticulate and about 5 denticles around corner more 

 prominent. Rakers, i, 6 + 13, lanceolate, 3 in eye. Head scaly, 



1 Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 501, pi. 11, upper fig. 



2 Monatsb. Ak. V.'iss. Berlin, 1876, p. 250. 



