142 Records of the Induni Miisenni. [Vol. Ill, 



spines in front of the soft anal, which are concealed under a fold of 

 skin. Pectorals long, slightly curved and tapering, contained 2| 

 times in the total length. The ventrals are short and thick and 

 arise vertically below the roots of the pectorals. The caudals are 

 deeply forked. 



Scales. — The scales are minute, the breast and head being per- 

 fectly naked. 



Lateral line. — 114 scales in all, of which the posterior 33 are 

 covered with keeled plates ; 20 of these keeled plates are armed 

 with prominent spines. The lateral line runs straight forward from 

 the root of the caudal fin until it passes all the keeled plates, when 

 it curves forward, following almost accurately as a parallel curve of 

 the anterior dorsal profile, ending in the upper corner of the 

 operculum. 



Colour. — Steel-grey with five broad vertical silvery bands 

 which are more pronounced in the lower half. There is a small 

 reddish area in the middle of the root of the caudal fin. The 

 margins of the caudal and dorsal are tinged with black. There is 

 a small horse-shoe-shaped mark in front of the snout coloured whit- 

 ish grey on a black background. 



Trawled by the " Golden Crown " off Elephant Point in 

 July, 1908. 



Length of two specimens. — 16 cm. 



Caranx auricoroncB ^ sp. nov. 

 D. vi/23. P. 22. V. 5. A. ii/21. C. 19. LI. 80 (30 plates). 



Height of body if, and length of head 3^^ in the total length 

 Diameter of eye 2| in the length of head, one diameter from end of 

 snout and two apart. 



Shape. — Highly compressed, both the dorsal and ventral pro- 

 files convex except in the anterior third of the ventral profile. No 

 concavity in the anterior profile in front of the eye, but a small 

 depression just anterior to the first dorsal. 



Mouth. — Oblique, upper jaw not protrusible, lower jaw longer, 

 slightly curved and not horizontal. 



Teeth. — Villiform in both jaws. 



Fins. — Spinous dorsal not rudimentary but well-developed, 

 quite separated from second dorsal by a smooth open space ; the 

 spines of the first dorsal are joined together b}' thin white mem- 

 brane. In the second dorsal a secondary sexual character is well- 

 developed in the male but entirely wanting in the female. In the 

 male specimen the 7th to 15th soft dorsal rays, inclusive, are pro- 

 longed to a considerable length in soft black filiform prolongations. 

 Some of the rays anterior to these appear to have been damaged. 

 These filiform appendages are wanting in the anal fin of the male 

 fish and in both soft dorsal and anal fins of the female which was 

 found to be full of matured ova. The ventral fin, which is a little 

 longer than the head, is anterior to the origin of the pectorals, and 



