3. CARANX. 455 



The width of the opercle is one-third of its height. The lateral line is 

 bent anteriorly, and becomes straight in the vertical from the middle 

 of the soft dorsal ; the plates are very little developed. Opercular 

 spot indistinct ; the membrane between the anterior dorsal rays 

 blackish. 



Caribbean Sea, spreading to the coasts of New York. 



a. Fine specimen. Cuba. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society. 



b, c. Young. South America. Presented by Sir W. Hooker. — The 



first dorsal fin is very distinct, with the middle spines longest ; 

 the anterior ray of the dorsal and anal fins and the outer one 

 of the ventral are exceedingly long and filiform, ornamented 

 with brown rings ; an indistinct brown band through the eye. 



68. Caranx alexandrinus. 



Geqfr. JDescr. Eg. Poiss. pi. 22. f. 2. 

 Scyris alexandiina, Cuv. ^ Veil. ix. p. 152. 



Gallichthys egyptiaciis, (Ehrenh.) Cuv. Sj- Val. ix. p. 176 ; Cuv. Regne 

 Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 59. f. 1. 



D. 5 I ^. A. ^. L. lat. 3-4. 



The first dorsal not developed, distinctly visible in immature spe- 

 cimens ; the ventrals and the anterior rays of the dorsal and anal 

 fins veiy elongate, filiform. Dentition probably as in C. gallus. 

 The height of the body is 1| in the total length, the length of the 

 head 3| ; the height of the praeorbital is much more than the length 

 of the diameter of the eye. The origin of the soft dorsal is the 

 highest point of the back, from which the uj^per profile rapidly de- 

 scends, being convex on the nape of the neck. Lower jaw promi- 

 nent. The lateral line is strongly curved anteriorly, and becomes 

 straight below the middle of the dorsal ; the plates are exceedingly 

 small. Scales none. Uniform silvery (immatiu'e specimens with 

 more or less distinct vertical bands) ; the filiform rays black. 



North coast of Egypt ; coast of West Africa. 



a. Half-grown : not good state. Ashantee. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 h. Young. Congo Expedition. 



69. Caranx gallus. 



Meer-hsen, Nieuliof, Zee- en Lant-Reize, i. p. 270, cum fig. 



Vnlent. ill. p. 465. f. .376 ; Renard, ii. 26. 128 ; Ruysch, Thcatr. Anim. i. 



9. 7 ; Seha, iii. 26. 34; WiUu;ilihg, Append, tab. 7. f. 1. 

 Zeus, sp. no. 2, Artedi, Geneva, p. 50 (not sj-nou.). 



gallus, L. Syst. i. p. 454; Block, taf. 192. f. 1; Bl. Schn. p. 94. 



sp., Gronov. 3Ius. i. no. 108. 



Russell, i. p. 45. pi. 57, p. 46. pi. 58. 



Gallus Airescens, Laeep. iv. pp. 58.3, 584. 



Gallichthys major, Cuv. Sf Val. ix. p. 168. pi. 254 ; Richards. Ichth. 



Chin. p. 271 ; Cantor, Catal. p. 136. 

 chevola, Cuv. Sf Val. ix. p. 175. 



