38 ' MKMomS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSETTM. 



240. Decapterus maruadsi (Tcmminck & Schlegel). 



A large species of Decaptenis is represented by two examples in our collection 

 from Honolulu. It has been sent to the American Museum of Natural History to 

 be studied by Mr. Nichols, who regards it as identical with D. maruadsi of Japan. 

 The lower jaw with very weak teeth, mouth otherwise toothless. Length eighteen 



inches. 



Selar Blceker. 



(Trnchurops Gill.) 

 The genus Sclar was based u]ion various slender species belonging to Trachurus, 

 Trnchurops, and Atule of other writers. The first logotype, chosen by Jordan 

 and Evermann, was Caranx boopf^ Bleeker. According to Fowler this is a species 

 of Trachurops. Selar must therefore replace the latter name. 



241. Selar mauritianus ((^uoy and Gaimard). Akule; Halalalu. 



Trdchurops crumcnophthalma of authors; probably not the same as the latter, 

 which is an Atlantic species. 



Atule g(>n. nov. Jordan antl Jordan. 



Tj-pe: Caranx affinis Riippell. 



This genus has the form of Selar (Trachurops). Elongate, the back low, 

 without the peculiar notching of the shoulder-girdle distinctive of that genus, and 

 with the last ray of the dorsal and of the anal semi-detached, joined by a low 

 membrane to the rest of the fin. Like Selar and Caranx it has bony plates only 

 on the straight posterior part of the lateral line. Teeth in jaws slender, small; 

 A-omer, palatines, and tongue with minute teeth. Atule {Akule in Hawaii) is the 

 common name of fishes of this type in Polynesia. 



242. Atule lundini (Jordan & Scale). Amiika; Puakahdla. (J. & E., p. 195.) 



f Caranx affinis Rliiipell, Neue Wirbelthierc, 1838. p. 49, pi. XIV, fig. 1. Red 

 Sea. 



? Selar hasselti Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootseh., XXIV, 1852, p. 53. Moluccas. 



Decapterus lundini Jordan and Scale, "Fishes of Samoa," 1906. p. 229. Apia. 



Very common at Honolulu. Mr. Nichols finds tangible differences between 

 the form in Hawaii and Samoa and the African affinis. He regards .4. lundini as 

 a subspecies of .4. affinis, of which hasselti is a synonym. 



243. Atuie polita (Jenkins). Maka. (J. & E., p. 194.) 



A rare siiecies at Honolulu, probably referable to this genus, though deeper in 

 body than the type. 



