448 CABANGrDJS. 



series of stronger ones ; those of the lower are in a single series. 

 The height of the hody M^^^^in the total length. Breast scaly ; 

 the lateral line is bent ^^^^H^the width of the arch being equal, 

 or nearly equal, to tliJ^^^^^K the straight portion ; the latter 

 begins in the vertical fro^^^^^Benth dorsal ray. J'he plates are 

 very well developed and dil^^^Vom the beginning of the straight 

 portion. The lower jaw is l^lj^ than the upper, and the maxiUary 

 reaches beyond the vertical from the centre of the eye. Opercular 

 spot none. 



Red Sea ; Mauritius ; coast of Coromandel. 



a. Half-grown. Mauritius. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society. 

 h. Twenty inches long : stuffed. India. From the Collection of the 



East India Company. 



58. Caranx carangns. 



Scomber, sp., Gronon. Znnphi/l. no. .307. 



Scomber carangus, Block, taf. .340 ; JBl. Schn. p. 28 ; Bennett, Whaling 



Voyage, ii, p. 282 (Caranx antilliarum). 

 Ekalah para, Russell, ii. p. 35. pi. 146. 



? Caranx latus, Agass. Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 105. tab. 56 b. f. 1. 

 Caranx carangus, Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 91 ; Cuv. Rbgne Atiitn. III. Poiss. 



pi. 57. f. 2; Guichen. Poiss. in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. Ill . 



chrysos, Cuv. (^ Val. ix. p. 98 (not Mitch.). 



ekala, Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 117; Bleek. Verhmid. Batav. Genootsch. 



xxiv. Makr. p. 59. 



xanthopygiis, Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 109 ; Bleek. Sumbawa. 



lessonii, Bleek. Faun. Midd. en Oost-Java (not Cuv. ^ Val.). 



richardi, Holbr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 94. pi. 13, lower figure. 



Trachunis cordyla, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 124. 



D-8|,-5^,. A. 2 I ^3. L.lat. 30-33. 



The teeth of the upper jaw form a villiform band, Mith an outer 

 series of stronger ones ; those of the lower form a single series, inter- 

 mixed with larger teeth. The height of the body is three times, 

 the length of the head four times, and that of the pectoral 3| in the 

 total length. Breast naked. The lateral line is bent, the width of the 

 arch being 1^ or 1|^ in the length of the straight portion ; the latter 

 begins abruptly in the vertical from the sixth dorsal ray. The plates 

 are well developed and distinct along aU the straight portion of the 

 lateral line. The lower jaw is rather longer than the upper ; the 

 upper maxiUary reaches behind the vertical from the centre of the 

 eye. Opercular spot generally distinct. 



From the west coast of Africa to the Atlantic coasts of tropical 

 America ; Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 



A. Atlantic specimens. 



a. Fine specimen. Niger Expedition. From Mr. Eraser's Collection. 



b, c. Young. S. Domingo. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



d. Young. West Indies. 



e. Young : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 



