296 SHUFELDT. [Vor 
The appendages have been lost in my specimen of Caranx 
hippos, so I am unable to say anything about them. 
When we come to compare the existing differences in the 
latter halves of the spinal columns of these two fish, we find 
that they are quite as great as those shown in Figs. 13 and 14. 
Indeed, I can see there nothing to indicate that the forms in 
question have any relationship whatever and were they in the 
Figure 14. — Left lateral view of the first eleven vertebrze of the spinal column 
of Caranx hippos; specimen 13,561, of the Smithsonian Institution collection; life 
size, from the specimen. 
class Aves, I should feel justified in placing one at one end of 
the system and one at the other. ; 
The absence of the hypural spine in Grammicolepis has already 
been commented upon by Professor Poey in his memoir at the 
head of this article; this apophysis is quite manifest in the 
genus Caranx, as in most true teleosteans. 
