NO. 2294. FISHES FROM WEST AFRICA— FOWLER. ■ 229 



Color in alcohol brov/n above, paler below. Back with six pairs 

 of close-set obscure deeper brown cross bars. Broad brown band 

 from upper hind eye edge to spinous dorsal. Dorsals dusky or 

 blackish-brown, paler basally on soft fin and edge broadly contrasted 

 in young. Apex of soft dorsal pale or whitish. Anal pale brown 

 with broad marginal dark band. Ventral blackish; rays and lower 

 surfaces whitish. Pectoral and caudal brownish. Thirteen exam- 

 ples, 98 to 120 mm. All obtained at sea, in latitude 6° 38' N.; lon- 

 gitude 13° 40' W. 



Bloch's figure of his Scomber fasciatus,^ though very crude m its 

 transverse l)ands, shoAVs unmistakable characters in the short round 

 pectoral, dark band from upper hhid eye edge toward occiput, etc. 



CARANX AFRICANUS Steindachner. 



Head, 3f to 3f: depth, 2h to 2f : D. VII-ii, 20 or 21; A. II-ii, 17 

 or 18; scutes in lateral line, 42 to 45; snout, 3f to 3f in head from up- 

 per jaw tip; eye, 3f to 3|; maxillary, 2h to 2|; interorbital, 3i to 3|; 

 rakers, 12 + 28 to 30; tv/o examples, 323 and 334 mm. In the 

 larger example the long dorsal lobe is ^l in fin base. 



PSEUDOTOLITHLIS BKACHYGNATHUS Bleeker. 



Head, 3^; depth, 3| to S%; D, X, i, 26 or 27; A. H, 7, i; tubes, 50 

 or 51 hi lateral line to caudal ])ase; 6 scales al)Ove lateral line to soft 

 dorsal origin and 7 below to spinous anal origin; 17 predorsal scales 

 to head; snout, 4^ to 4| in head from upper javr tip; eye, 5 to 5|; 

 maxillary, '2\; interorbital, 6 to 6|. Elongate, v»ell compressed, 

 back moderately elevated, deepest at spinous dorsal base medially. 

 Caudal peduncle strongly compressed; least depth, 1 to 1^ its length, 

 or 3\ to 3f in total head length. Head width, 2|- to 2^ its length. 

 Snout, convex; length two-thirds to three-fourths its width. Eye 

 little ellipsoid; hind edge advanced about half an eye-diameter l)e- 

 yond center ui head length. Mouth large, lower jaw protruding. 

 Teeth biserial, upper with outer row of well-spaced canines and 

 inner row of small uniform close-set conic teeth; lower teeth reversed. 

 Front above with two moderate inclined canines set little inside. 

 Maxillary to hmd pupil edge, expansion largely concealed, about 

 seven-eighths of eye. Interorbital convex. Few uneven denticles 

 along hind preopercle edge largely concealed. Rakers, ii, 3 or 4 + 9, v, 

 lanceolate, equal filaments or 1-|- in eye. Scales large, narrowly 

 imbricated, finely cOiated, in oblique rows above and below lateral 

 line, which become horizontal below lateral line after anal and 

 above after soft dorsal. Scales with 20 or 21 basal radii, circuli 

 often complete and as very fine vermiculations medially. Supra- 

 scapula entire. Row of small scales on soft dorsal base, and cautial 



1 Nat. Ausl. Fisch., vol. 7, 1793, p. 73, pi. 341. Vaterland unbekannt . 



