3. CAEANX. 447 



much longer than the head. Breast naked. The lateral line is bent 

 and waving anteriorly, becoming straight in the vertical from the 

 fifth dorsal ray. The lower jaw is longer than the upper, and the 

 maxillary does not reach to the vertical from the centre of the eye. 

 Seas of Sumatra and Amboyna ; coast of Coromandel. 



a. Half -grown. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



55. Caranx cynodon. 



Bleeker, Mahr. p. 362, and Verhatid. JBatav. Gen. xxiv. 3Iakr. p. 57. 



B.S\j-, 



A. 2 I -^. L. lat. 34-38. 



The teeth in the upper jaw are in a vjlliform band, the outer series 

 of which contains larger ones ; teeth of the lower jaw in a single 

 series, with canines anteriorly. Teeth on the vomer, the palatines, 

 and on the tongue. The height of the body equals the length of the 

 head, and is one-fourth of the total. The lower jaw prominent, the 

 maxillary reaching beyond the vertical from the middle of the eye. 

 Breast scaly ; the lateral line becomes straight behind the origin of 

 the soft dorsal, and has the plates well developed. Opercular spot 

 and axil black ; caudal with the posterior margin black. (Bl.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



56. Caranx lepturus. 

 ? Caranx lepturus, Agass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 106. tab. 56 b. f. 2. 

 D-S|^- ^-2 1 75^9- L- lat. 35. 



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

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

 teeth on the vomer, the palatines, and on the tongue. The height 

 of the body is 2| in the total length, and the length of the head 

 four times. Breast scaly ; the lateral line is bent anteriorly, the 

 width of the arch being contained 1| in the length of the straight 

 portion ; the latter begins in the vertical from the fifth dorsal ray. 

 The plates are moderately developed and distinct along all the straight 

 portion of the lateral line. The lower jaw projects very little beyond 

 the upper, and the maxillary does not reach to the vertical from 

 the centre of the eye. Opercular spot none. 



? Atlantic. 



a-i. Half-grown. From the Haslar Collection. 

 Tc. Young. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 

 I. Twenty-seven inches long : stuffed. 



57. Caranx sansun. 



Scomber sansun, Forsk. p. 56. 

 Russell, ii. p. 33. pi. 144. 



Caranx sansun, Rilpp. All. Fische, p. 101, and N. W. Fische, p. 48. 

 taf. 13. f. 3. 



D.8|i^- A. 2 I ^.L. lat. 30. 



The teeth of the upper jaw form a 'V'illiform band, with an outer 



