444 CABANGID^. 



lower jaw is rather longer than the upper, and the maxillary reaches 

 beyond the vertical from the anterior margin of the eye ; eye large, 

 its diameter being 4| in the length of the head. Opercular spot 

 none ; palate and tongue covered with a thick white membrane, 

 posteriorly black. 

 Atlantic ? Red Sea. 



a. Thirteen inches long. From Forster's Collection. — Tyjie of the 

 species. 



48. Caranx uraspis. 



Uraspia carangoides, Bleek. Amboina, vi. p. 418. 



D.8|l. A.2|Jj. L.lat.32. 



The teeth are arranged 'in two series in each of the jaws; none 

 on the vomer, the palatines, or on the tongue. The height of the 

 body is 2| in the total length, the length of the head four times. 

 The snout is obtuse, and has the lower jaw rather longer than the 

 upper ; the maxillary reaches to below the centre of the eye. Breast 

 naked ; the lateral line is moderately bent, and becomes straight 

 below the middle of the soft dorsal ; the plates are small. The first 

 anal spine rudimentarj'. Body with five broad dark cross-bands ; 

 palate black ; the spinous dorsal black, the soft and the anal white 

 at the top. {Bl.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



49. Caranx speciosus. 



Scomber speciosus, Forsk. p. 54; Z. Gm. p. 1332; Shatv, Zool. iv. p. 603. 

 Caranx speciosus, Lacep. iii. p. 72. pi. 1. f. 1. 

 RmseU, ii. p. 36. pi. 149. 



Caranx speciosus, Cuv. i^ Vol. ix. p. 130 ; Cant. Catal. p. 133 ; Peters, 

 Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 245 (not Rupp.). 



petaurista, Geoff r. Drscr. Eg. pi. 23. f. 1 (not Ri'q)j).). 



Gnathanodon speciosus, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Makr. p. 72. 

 Caranx poloosoo, Richards. Voy. Ereb. 6f Terr. Ichth. pi, 58. f. 4, 6. 



Teeth none, or nearly imperceptible. The height of the body is 

 one-third of the total length, the length of the head one-fomih; 

 breast scaly ; the lateral line is bent, and becomes straight below 

 the anterior third of the soft dorsal ; the plates are small. The 

 lower jaw is rather shorter than the upper; the upper maxillary 

 reaches to the vertical from the anterior margiu of the eye. Silvery, 

 with six brown vertical bars, and with six narrower stripes between ; 

 the first bar through the eye. Adult specimens uniform. 



From the Red Sea, through all the Indian Seas, to the coast of 

 New HoUand. 



a. Half-grown. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



h. Thirty-thi-ee inches long : stuffed. Madras. Presented by T. 



C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 c. Half-grown. Philippine Islands. 



