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pectoral, rest alternate, next narrow, then wider bands, etc. ; 

 dorsal rays VII-I, 20; anal II-I, 17; gill rakers 9+1+23; 

 scales along straight portion of lateral line about 4G ; breast 



scalj' Caranx speciosus (ForskSl) 



lOft. Fewer than 40 scales along straight portion of lateral line. 

 12a. Scales along straight portion of lateral line about 27 or 28; 

 dorsal rays VII-I, 21 or 22 ; anal II-I, 18 or 19 ; gill rakers 

 about 7+1+18 or 19; breast scaly. 



Caranx adscensionis (Osbeck) 



12&. Scales along straight portion of lateral line 30 to 38. 



13a. Breast naked, except for a small patch just in front of 



pelvic base; length of maxillaries about 2i^ times in 



head and equal to distance from tip of snout to center or 



front of pupil; dorsal rays VIII-I, 21 to 23; anal II-I, 18; 



gill rakers about 7+1+18; scales along straight portion 



of lateral line about 35 to 38— Caranx ignobilis (ForskSl) 



136. Breast fully scaled ; length of maxillaries about 2 times in 



head and equal to distance from tip of snout to behind 



pupil; dorsal rays VIII-I 21 or 22; anal II-I, IG to IS; 



gill rakers 7 or 8+1+17 to 19; scales along straight 



portion of lateral line 30 to 38. 



Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy and Gaimard 



Genus ELAGATIS Bennett 



Elagatis Bennett, Narrative of a whaling voyage around the globe, vol 2, p. 

 283, 1840. (Type, Seriola hipinnulata Quoy and Gaimard.) 



ELAGATIS BIPINNULATUS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Seriola bipinnulata Quoy and Gaimaiju, Voyage autdur du monde . . . Uranie, 

 Zool., p. 363, pi. 61, fig. 3, 1825. 



115307, off McKean Island, latitude 3°35' S., longitude 174°6' W., April 30, 

 1939, caught by Capt. Lewis and Mr. Garrison of the U. S. S. BnshncU. 



Genus TRACHUROPS Gill 



Trachnrom Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1SG2, p. 238. [Type 

 Scomber plumieri Bloch (=S. crumenophtlxahnus Bloch).] 



TRACHUROPS CRUMENOPHTHALMUS (Bloch) 



Scomber crumenophthahnus Bloch, Naturgeschichte der ausliindischen Fische, 

 vol. 7, pt. 10, p. 77, pi. 343, 1793. 



115316, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 115318, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115317, Tutuila Island, off dock Pago Pago Bay, June 6, 1939, 4 specimens. 

 115315, Rose Island higoon, June 12-20, 1939, 6 specimens. 



52504, Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



Genus TRACHINOTUS Lacepede 



Trachinotus Lacep^db, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, p. 78, 1802, (Type, 

 Scomber falcatus Forsk&l.) 



