450 CARANGID.E. 



A. Atlantic specimens. 



a. Half-grown. St. Vincent. Presented by the Lords of the Ad- 

 miralty. 



h-f. Half-grown and young : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's 

 Collection. 



g. Adult. Puerto CabeUo. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



h. Fine specimen. S. America. Presented by Sir R. Schomburgk. 



i. Adiilt : skin. "W. Indies. Purchased of Mr. Scrivener. 



h. Young. 



B. Australian and Indian specimens. 



I. Half-grown. Madagascar. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



?)». Half-grown: skin: not good state. Port Natal. From Sir A. 

 Smith's Collection. 



n. Half-grown. China. 



0. Adult. China (^Caranx jlavo-ccendevs^. 



p. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



q. Fine specimen. Amoy (China). 



r. Adiilt. Tanna. From the Museum of Economic Geology. 



s. Half-grown. Ceylon. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



t, u. Half-grown : skias. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Col- 

 lection. 



V. Eighteen inches long: stuffed. Port Essiugton. Presented by 

 the Earl of Derby. — Type of Caranx paraspistes. 



w, X. Young-. From the Haslar Collection. 



2. One or several of the rays of the dorsal and aual fins elongate. 



60. Caranx atropus. 



Brama atropus, Bl. Schn. p. 98. t. 2-3. 



Russell, ii. p. 38. pi. 152. 



Caranx nigripes, Ctw. &■ Val. ix. p. 122 ; Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 275 ; 



Cantor, Catal. p. 129. 

 Olistiis ati-opus, Cur. Sf Val. ix. p. 141. 

 Carangoides atropus, Bleek. Makr. p. 360, and Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. 



Makr. p. 66. 

 Caranx atropus, Cantor, Catal. p. 130. 



D. 8 I ^. A. 2 I ^. L. lat. 35. Vert. 10/14. 



The first dorsal ray not produced ; males generally with several 

 of the middle dorsal rays elongate and filiform. The teeth in both 

 the jaws are miniite, \'illiform, arranged in bands. The height of 

 the body is 2^ iu the total length ; the length of the head 4|, equal 

 to that of the pectoral and ventral fins. The space between the 

 pectoral, ventral, and eye naked. The lateral line is strongly bent, 

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

 There are thirty-five plates of moderate size along the straight por- 

 tion. The cleft of the mouth very oblicpie, with the lower jaw pro- 



