430 CARANGID^. 



H. Young. Pearl Islands. Presented by Mr. Stutchbury. 



V. Half-grown: stuffed. Aneiteum (New Hebrides). From Mr. 



Macgillivi'ay's Collection. 

 lu. Adult : bad state. From the Haslar Collection. 

 .1?, y. Adult and young. Named Scomber climidiatus (cfr. Cuv. & Val. 



ix. p. 61). 

 z, a. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



14. Caranx blochii. 



Scomber ruber, Block, taf. 342 ; £1. Sclin. p. 29. 

 Caranx blochii, Cuv. 8)- Val. ix. p. 69 ; Guichen. Poiss. in Ramon de la 

 Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. 111. 



I>.8|^. A. 2 If,. L.lat.24. 



The teeth in both the jaws are minute, villiform, arranged in 

 bands. The height of the body is 3| to 4 in the total length, the 

 length of the head 4^, the length of the pectoral 3|. The lateral Une 

 is slightly bent, and becomes straight below the anterior quarter of the 

 dorsal fin. The plates are moderate, distinct from below the middle 

 of the soft dorsal. The lower jaw is slightly prominent ; the upper 

 maxillary reaches to the vertical from the anterior margin of the 

 orbit. Opercular spot none. 



Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



a. Twenty-three inches long : skin. West Indies. From Dr. 



ParneU's Collection. 

 b-d. Adult : skins. "West Indies. From Dr. ParneU's Collection. 

 e. Young. West Indies. From M. SaUe's Collection. 

 /. Adult. South America. Presented by Sir R. Schomburgk. 



15. Caranx hasseltii. 



? Caranx affinis, Ruppell, N. W. Fische, p. 49. t. 14. f. 1. 

 Selar ha.sseltii, Bleek. Makr. p. 359, and Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. 

 xxiv. Makr. p. 53 (not synon.). 



D. 7 1 f . A. 2 I 21. L. lat. 45. 



The teeth in both the jaws arc minute and viUiform, arranged in a 

 narrow band above, in a single series below ; teeth on the vomer, the 

 palatines and the tongue. The height of the body is 4^-4| in the 

 total length, and equal to the lengih of the head ; the length of the 

 pectoral is 3| in the total. The lateral line is very sHghtly bent, 

 and becomes straight below the anterior quarter of the dorsal fin. 

 The plates are well developed, and become distinct from below the 

 eleventh dorsal ray. The lower jaw projects beyond the upper ; the 

 upper maxillary reaches to the vertical from the anterior margin of 

 the orbit. Opercular spot very distinct. 



Sunda and Molucca Seas; (Red Sea?). 



a. Fine specimen. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 6. Adult. Moluccas. 

 c. Young : injm-ed. 



