FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 63 



57. Decapterus macrosomus Bleeker. 



Twelve specimens from Bulan (No. 3345, 3317 to 3349, 3351, 3521, 3522, 3524, and 3531 to 3534; length 

 5.75 to 8 in. and one from Bacon (no. U46; length 6 in.). 



IVpth 5.5; head 3.75; about 59 plates or scales in straight porti if lateral line; origin of ventrals hi an 



to tip of snout than to anal. This 1 1 — I » i- more elongate and has smaller plates than has D. hurra, and thedisl 

 between ii|>- of ventrals and origin of anal is 1.5 in head, while in /' ha ra it is much less, being about 2 5 



ama Bleeker, Nal I yds. Ned Cnd . i. 368, L850, Batavia. 

 Oaranx macroaomOj Gunther, Cat., II, 425. 



58. Decapterus kurra Bleeker. 



Six specimens from Bulan (no. 3350, 3346, 3911, 3913, 3914, and 3523; length I to 6 in.) 

 Head 3 in length; depth 4.5: plates 40; distance between tips of ventrals and origin of anal short , about 

 2.5 in head; origin of ventrals nearer origin of anal than to tip of snout. 



intents Jcvrra Bleeker, Makrei i en, 50, Verh. Bat. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Batavla. 



ix Jturro, GUnther, Cat., n, 127; Day, Fishes India, 214, pi. Lxvm, fig. 5. 



59. Seriola nigrofasciata (Ruppell). 



One specimen from Bulan (no. 3002: length 6.2 in.) 



Xonuus nigrofasciatus Ruppell, Atlas. Fische, 92, pi. 24, fig. 2, 1828, Red Sea. 

 Seriola nigrojast iota, G(inther, Cat., n. 465. 



60. Lactarius lactarius i Bloch A. Schneider). Bog-snag-taen. 



Three fine specimens from San Fabian (no. 3274, 3754, and 3755; length 6.25 to 9.2 in.). 

 Head 3 in length; depth 2.8; eye 3.85 in head; snout 4.5; maxillary "2.1, its distal end under post. ii.M 

 margin of pupil: base of anal fin '_'.75 in length. 



Scomber lactarius Blocb A Schneider, Syst. tenth., 31, 1801, Tranquebar. 

 Lactarius dclkatulus, Gunther, Cat., II, 507. 



61. Caranx boops Cuvier & Valenciennes. Atoloy. 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3724, 3807, 1053, 40.54, 4084, 4085, 4086, 4102, and 4103: length 7 

 to 8.25 in- 

 Head 3.45 in length: depth 3.1; plates of lateral line 44, the line strongly bent, becoming straight under 



the posterior third of first dorsal, the plates very large: eye 2.75 in head: adipose eyelid well developed; max- 

 illary 2.1 in head. 



In this speeies the ventrals fall far short of anal spines, the origin of the spines being midway between 

 origin of ventrals and. base of ninth anal ray; under jaw strongly projecting. 



Caranx boopt Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i\. :;:. 16), Amboyna; Gunther, Cat., II, 131; Day, Pishes India, 218, 

 IjI. xux, fig. 2. 



62. Caranx freeri Evermann sv. Scale, new species. Hainan.. 



Head 3.1 in length: depth 3.2; eye 2.85 in head; interorbital 3.55: dorsal vm — i. 23: anal n — t. 20: 

 lateral line of 25 scales and 47 plates; a broad adipose eyelid. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed ; depth of caudal peduncle til in head, its depth less than its width; 

 protile of head from above opercle to snout almost a straight line placed at angle of 35 degrees; mouth large, 

 the lower jaw scarcely projecting; length of maxillary 2.1 in head, its distal end under middle of pupil, the 

 posterior margin concave: mandible 1.75 in head: minute teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue, those of 

 jaws in single series; gillrakers long and slim, 21 on lower limb, the longest 5.0 in head: opercle and preopercle 

 entire; body entirely scaled; breast scaled; plates of lateral line very strong, their greatest diameter 4.5 in 

 head; the lateral line with a low curve anteriorly, becoming straight under the posterior dorsal spines, the 

 urved portion 3.2 in straight : scales of the arrow-shaped area in front of dorsal verj minute; a hoi it O row- on 

 cheek; origin of spinous dorsal in vertical line with axil of ventrals, the longest spine 2 in head, longest ray of 

 soft dorsal 2.5; origin of anal under second soft dorsal ray, being midway between base of caudal and posterior 

 margin of orbit, its longest ray 2.55 in bead, origin of anterior anal -pine midwaj between origin "i ventral and 

 base of seventh anal ray: first anal spine 6.5 in head, ventrals midway between origin of anal and posterior end 



