450 CARANOID^. 



A. Atlantic specimens. 



a. Half-grown. St. Vincent. Presented by the Lords of the Ad- 

 miralty. 



b~f. Half-grown and young : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's 

 Collection. 



g. Adult. Puerto Cabello. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



Ji. Pine specimen. S. America. Presented by Sir R. Schomburgk. 



i. Adult : skin. W. Indies. Purchased of Mr. Scrivener. 



k. Young. 



B. Australian and Indian specimens. 



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



??n. Half-grown: skin: not good state. Port Natal. From Sir A. 

 Smith's Collection. 



n. Half-grown. China. 



0. Adult. China (Caranx JIavo-cceruleus). 



p. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Eeeves, Esq. 



q. Fine specimen. Amoy (China). 



r. Adult. Tanna. From the Museum of Economic Geology. 



s. Half-grown. Ceylon. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



t, u. Half-grown : skins. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Col- 

 lection. 



V. Eighteen inches long: stuffed. Port Essington. Presented by 

 the Earl of Derby. — Type of Caranoc paraspistes. 



w, cc. Young. From the Haslar Collection. 



2. One or several of the rays of the doisgal and anal fins elongate. 



60. Caranx atropus. 



Brama atvopus, Bl. Sclm. p. 98. t. 23. 



Russell, ii. p. 38. pi. 152. 



Caranx nigripes, Cuv. &■ Val. ix. p. 122 5 Richards, Ichth. Chin. p. 275; 



Cantor, Catal. p. 129. 

 Olistus atropus, Cuv. Sf Val. ix. p. 141. 

 Carangoides atropus, Block. Makr. p. 3GG, and Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. 



Makr. p. G6. 

 Caranx atropus, Cantor, Catal. p. 130. 



D. 8 I ^. A. 2 I ^. L. lat. 35. Vert. 10/14. 



The first dorsal ray not produced ; males generally with several 

 of the middle dorsal rays elongate and filiform. The teeth in both 

 the jaws are minute, \'illiform, arranged in bands. The height of 

 the body is 2g in the total length ; the length of the head 4|, equal 

 to that of the pectoral and ventral fins. The space between the 

 pectoral, ventral, and eye naked. The lateral line is strongly bent, 

 and becomes straight below the anterior quarter of the soft dorsal. 

 There are thirty-five plates of moderate size along the straight por- 

 tion. The cleft of the mouth very oblique, with the lower jaw pro- 



