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therefore, follow them in keeping the species separate. It remains, then, to 

 discuss the status of the two Valenciennean species Caranx para and C. cambon. 

 Gunther characteristically evades the responsibility by relegating them to the 

 unattached list, but Day suggests that they may be identical with C. Italia, and 

 it must be allowed that an examination of Valenciennes' descriptions favours 

 the suggestion. 9 



Range: — Seas of India. China, and Malaysia, eastward to the Coast of 

 Queensland and perhaps to the Solomon Islands; it was also reported to have 

 been taken in the Ked Sea during the early part of the last century, but there 

 has been no subsequent confirmation of the report, which must, therefore, be 

 considered doubtful. It is not included in Surgeon-Major Jayakar's collections 

 made at Maskat, on the Arabian shore of the Gulf of Oman. 10 Nor is it much 

 in evidence in our home waters, de Vis' specimen in fact, which formed the type 

 of his Microptcnjx qui < nslandim, being for twenty-six years unique ; this specimen 

 bears all the marks of Broadbent's collecting, and is, therefore, certain to have 

 come from either Cairns or Somerset. In 1910, the "Endeavour" was, however, 

 so fortunate as to come across it on two separate occasions during its second trip 

 along the Queensland coast ; firstly, off Pine Peak, where 46 examples were 

 trawled on mud at a depth of 25 fathoms, and secondly, in Edgecumbe Bay, 

 the trawl on this occasion accounting for 6 specimens taken on fine sand and 

 mud in 14 fathoms. Passing to the north-east Macleay recorded it doubtfully 

 from the Solomon Islands, but it is not included in Jordan and Seale's list of 

 the Pacific Islands' Fishes. Turning now to the west we are confronted with the 

 curious fact that, while the American collectors found it to be not uncommon at 

 the Philippines, neither Bleeker nor Cantor ever received it from any part of 

 the Malay Archipelago, though the former knew it from Bengal. The British 

 Museum, however, possesses a specimen from Sumatra and another from the 

 Moluccas, besides several from the Chinese Coast. It is generally distributed 

 along the eastern shores of India and round Ceylon, but to the westward we 

 have no evidence of its presence beyond the Malabar Coast. 



As regards the Archipelago the identification of C. intra and C. cambon 

 with our species at once relieves the situation, for Bleeker claims to have received 



9 If this be correct the synonymy will have to be amended by the addition of the 

 following: — ■ 



Caranx para Cuvier & Valenciennes, p. 5S; Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., ii, 1865, p. 173; 



Day, Fish. Malabar. i865, p. 85. 

 Caranx cambon Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 60; Bleeker, Xat. en Geneesk. Arch. Xed. 



Ind. ii, 1845. p. 517; id., Yerh. Batav. Gen., xxii, 1849, Madura, p. 4; id., ibid., xxiii, 1850, 



Mid. en Oost Java, p. 8. 

 Selar para Bleeker, ibid., xxiv, 1852, Makreel., p. 56; id., ibid., xxv, 1853, Bengal, p. 44; 



id.. Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., xii, 1856. p. 214; id., ibid., xvi, 1858, p. 407; id., ibid., 



xviii, 1859, p. 367; id.. Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, 1860, Sumatra, p. 30 & Celebes, p. 39. 

 Type localities: — Malabar Coast (C. para); Batavia (C. cambon). 



10 See Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, pp. 653 to 667; ibid., 1889, pp. 236 to 

 246, and ibid., 1892, pp. 134 to 136. 



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