448 CAHANQIDJS. 



series of stronger ones ; those of the lower arc in a single series. 

 The height of the body is 3-3| in the total length. Breast scaly ; 

 the lateral lino is bent anteriorly, the width of the arch being equal, 

 or nearly equal, to the length of the straight purtion ; the latter 

 begins in the vertical from the seventh dorsal ray. The plates are 

 very well developed and distinct from the beginning of the straight 

 portion. The lower jaw is longer than the upper, and the maxillary 

 reaches beyond the vertical from the centre of the eye. Opercular 

 spot none. 



Red Sea ; Mauritius ; coast of Coromandel. 



a. Half-grown. Mauritius. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society. 



b. Twenty inches long : stuffed. India. From the Collection of the 



East India Company. 



58. Caranx carang^s. 



Scomber, sp., Gronor. Znophi/l. no. 307. 



Scomber carangus, Block, taf. 340 ; Bl. Schn. p. 28 ; Bennett, Wlialing 



Voyage, ii, p. 282 (Caranx antilliarum). 

 Ekalah para, Jiussell, ii. p. 35. pi. 146. 



? Caranx latus, Agass. Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 105. tab. 56 6. f. 1. 

 Caranx carangus, Cuv. i^- Val. ix. p. 91 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. III. Poiss. 



pi. 57. f. 2; Guichen. Poifs. in Ramon dc la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. 111. 



chrysos, Cuv. Sf Val. ix. p. 98 (not Mitch.). 



ekala, Cuv. 8f Val. ix. p. 117 ; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. 



xxiv. Makr. p. 59. 



xanthopygus, Cuv. 8f Val. ix. p. 109 ; Bleek. Sutnbawa. 



lessonii, Bleek. Faun. Midd. en Oost-Java (not Cuv. Sf Val.). 



richardi, Holbr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 94. pi. 13, lower figure. 



Trachurus cordyla, Gronov. Sgst. ed. Gray, p. 124. 



D.Slii-,. A. 21^3. L.lat. 30-33. 



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

 series of stronger ones; those of the lower form a single series, inter- 

 mixed with larger teeth. The height of the body is three times, 

 the length of the head four times, and that of the pectoral 3| in the 

 total length. Breast naked. The lateral line is bent, the width of the 

 arch being 1^ or 1| in the length of the straight portion ; the latter 

 begins abruptly in the vertical from the sixth dorsal ray. The plates 

 are well developed and distinct along all the straight portion of the 

 lateral line. The lower jaw is rather longer than the upper ; the 

 upper maxillary reaches behind the vertical from the centre of the 

 eye. Opercular spot generally distinct. 



From the west coast of Africa to the Atlantic coasts of tropical 

 America ; Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 



A. Atlantic specimens. 



a. Fine specimen. Niger Expedition. From Mr. Eraser's Collection. 



b, c. Young. S. Domingo. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



d. Young. West Indies. 



e. Younc;: skin. Frori Gronow's Collection. 



