474 CAKANGIDiE. 



Cliorinemus tol, Cantor, Catal. p. 119 (not Cuv.). 

 Thynnus moluccensis, Gronov. Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 121. 



I>-7|,-^. A. 2 1 5^^. Yert. 10/16. 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the head, 

 and one-fifth of the total. The upper maxillary is triangular and 

 flat posteriorly, and reaches beyond the vertical from the centre of 

 the eye. The length of the intermaxillary is contained one and 

 two-thii'd times or twice in that of the head. The snout, in mature 

 fishes, is nearly twice as long as the diameter of the eye. A series 

 of rounded, indistinct blackish spots above the lateral line, some- 

 times a second row beneath, sometimes both absent. An indistinct 

 blackish streak from above the eye to the shoulder. Top of the 

 dorsal black. 



From the eastern shores of Africa through all the East Indian Seas. 



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

 h. Adult : skin. Ceylon. Collected by E. F. Kelaart, M.D. 



c. Half-grown. China. Presented by the Honourable East India 



Company. 



d. Half-grown. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank as Cliori- 



nemus tol. 

 e-cf. Half-grown : skins. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's 



Collection. 

 7i. Half-grown. 



i. Fine specimen. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 k. Half-grown : slun. Fi'om Gronow's Collection. 

 I. Adult: skeleton. Moluccas. 



The air-bladder extends far backwards on each side of the haemal 

 spines. 



The skeleton is very similar to that of Ch. lysan, and difibrs from it 

 in the following points : — The snout is more produced, and the max- 

 illary does not reach so far backwards ; the lateral crests on the upper 

 part of the skull are little developed ; the proeoperculTim has the 

 lower limb not much shorter than the posterior. There are ten ab- 

 dominal and sixteen caudal vertebrae, the length of the former por- 

 tion of the vertebral column being to that of the latter as 1 : 1"9. 



6. Cliorinemus orientalis. 



Chorinemus orientalis, Temm. t^ Schley. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 106. 



pi. 57. f. 1. 

 ? Scomber aculeatus, Block, taf. 336. 



D.7|^. A.2|±. 



The height of the body is 4§ in the total length, the length of the 

 head five times. The teeth of the outer scries of the mandibula are 

 stronger, curved, bent outwards. The snout is about twice as long 

 as the diameter of the eye. Coloration uniform ; the top of the dor- 

 sal blackish. (Schlef^.) 



Bea of Japan. 



