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and we, therefore, give the following key to enable observers to distinguish them 

 when captured, in the hope that they will forward specimens to the Queensland 

 Museum. 



a 1 . Lateral line with less than 30 scutes, the straight section only partly armed. 



6\ Upper jaw with a series of small teeth . . . . . . . . . . . . muroadsi. 



I) 2 . Upper jaw toothless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . leptosomus. 



a 2 . Lateral line with 35 scutes or more, the straight section armed throughout . . russellii. 



DECAPTERUS RUSSELLII (Riippell). 

 Kurra Wodagawah Eussell, Fish. Vizagapatam, ii, 1803, p. 30, pi. cxxxix. 



Caranx russellii Riippell, Atlas Fisch. Both. Meer., 1828, p. 99; Boulenger, Proe. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1887, p. 660. 



Caranx Tcurra Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 44 (after Bussell) ; Jerdon, 

 Madras Journ. Lit. & Sci., 1851, p. 137; Giinther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., ii, 1860, p. 427; 

 Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 24; id., Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 81; Klunzinger, Verh. 

 zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 453; Day, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 214, pi. xlviii, fig. 5. 



Caranx pseudopterygius Bleeker, Journ. Ind. Arch., iii, 1849, p. 71. 



Decapterus Tcurra Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., i, 1851, p. 358; id., ibid., ii, 1851, p. 213; 

 id., Verh. B'atav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Makreel., p. 50; id., ibid., xxv, 1853, Bengal, p. 44; 

 id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., viii, 1855, p. 203; id., Act, Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, I860, 

 Celebes, p. 39; Jordan & Richardson, Check-List, Fish. Philipp. Archip., 1910, p. 19. 



Caranx ecclipsifer de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix, pt. 3, 29 Nov., 1884, p. 541. 

 Decapterus russelli Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus., xxiii, 1901, p. 352; Steindachner r 

 Denk. Akad. Wien, lxxi, 1902, p. 20; Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxxi, 1907, p. 465. 



Decapterus ? ecclipsifer Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xxiii, 1911, p. 9. 

 Decapterus russellii Ogilby, Mem. Queensl. Mus., ii, 1914, p. 90. 



RUSSELL 'S MACKEREL-SCAD. 



(Plate XIX.) 



Type localities: — Red Sea at El Tor (C. russellii). 

 Vizagapatam (C. kurra). 

 Celebes (C. pseudopterygius). 

 Cape York, N.Q. (C. ecclipsifer). 



Body elongate-elliptical and subf usiform, the dorsal and ventral contours 

 symmetrical, its width 1-3 to 1-5 in its depth, which is 445 to 4-9 in its length 

 and 1-3 to 1-45 in the length of the head ; abdominal region long, 1-2 in the length 

 of the anal, including the free ray ; caudal peduncle about one eighth wider 

 than deep, its width 1-67 in the eye-diameter. Head bluntly trigonal, its upper 

 profile feebly convex and gently acclivous, its length 3-35 to 3-45 in that of 

 the body, its width 1-2 to 1-3 in its depth, which is 1-55 to 1-7 in its length ; cranio- 

 nuchal keel moderately developed. Eye large, with a well developed adipose 

 lid, which overlaps the pupil both in front and behind, its diameter 3-65 to 



