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Also caught with r<Kls uml liucs associnted with bonitos and imiriature tuuuies. 



Voracious fish, foods ou small fishes and medium sized plankton. When 

 this fish encountere a school of small fishes, it darts into the crowd and scatters 

 them in the samo way as the polamids and tunnies. 



This ilsh attains a tübil length of ca 60 cm, and a weight of ca 3.i 

 lig, but rarely a fish of one meti-c and more tlian 10 kg in weight is found. 



Simwniug seems to take place about in May in Taiwan. A young speci- 

 men measuring 11.5 cm in length was captured near the mouth of Keeluug 

 Harlxjur, ou August 29, 1917. It is slenderer tliau the adult, and has about 

 a dozen dark transverse bands, more or less oblique. These bn,nds pass the 

 lateral line downwards. 



Flesh more or less firm and pretty good in taste. 



Thijmms affinis of Cajjtok seems to be identical with this species ; but as 

 l;e denies the presence of the vomerine teeth, it may 1« a difiereut specie?. 

 Moreover the colour of fins differs in T/iynnvs affinis. It is said that the 

 second doi-sal, anal, and their spurious fins are pale brownish yellow, edged 

 and washed with black; while the caudal is yellowish bufl", washed with 

 brownish in the centime. 



Euthyunus lineatus Kishinouye. 



Enthynnus lineatus, Kishinouye, Sui. Gak. Ho, III, 113, 1920. 

 This species was created on a single specimen from IMauzanillo, Mexico, 

 collected by Mr. Naotaro Ota, in 1915. It diU'crs from the other known 



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Fig. Z. Euihyrmus lineatus 1/4. 



