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The latter species should be diligently sought for in other waters than the 

 Ked Sea whence both it and C. speciosus were originally described, for it seems 

 incredible that of two so closely allied species, one should have elected to remain 

 permanently in its narrow home waters, while the other, with no visible 

 superiority in its favour, has succeeded in spreading over two oceans. 



CARANX SPECIOSUS (Forskal). 



Scomber speciosus Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. 54; Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth., Iehth., 1788, 

 p. 143; Gmelin, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 13, i, 1789, p. 1332; Shaw, Gen. Zool., iv, 1804, 

 p. 603. 



Caranx speciosus (Commerson MS.) Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 1802, p. 72. pi. i, fig. 1; 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 130; Bleeker, Nat. en Geneesk. 

 Arch. Nederl. Ind., ii, 1845, p. 517; Eichardson, Zool. Erebus & Terror, ii, 1848, Ichth., 

 p. J 36; Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen., xxii, 1849, Madura, p. 4; id., ibid., xxiii, 1850. 

 Mid. on Oost Java, p. 8; Cantor, Catal. Malayan Fish., 1850, p. 133; Jerdon, Madras, 

 Journ. Lit. & Sci., 1851, p. 137; Peters, Arch. f. Nat., 1855, i, p. 245; Gunther, Brit. 

 Mus. Catal. Fish., ii. 1860, p. 444; Day, Fish. Malabar, 1S65, p. S4; id., Proe. Zool. Sou. 

 London, 1865, p. 25; Playfair, Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 860; Gunther, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. London, vi, 1869, p. 431; Day, Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 689; Klunzinger, 

 Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 455; id., Sitz. Akad. Wien, lxxx, i, 1879, p. 377; 

 Macleay, Proe. .Linn. Soe. N. S. Wales, v, 1881, p. 535; id., ibid., vii, 1SS2, p. 356; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, p. 375; Boulenger, Proe. Zool. Soe. 

 London, 1887, p. 661; id., 1889, p. 240; Jordan & Evermann, Amer. Food & Game 

 Fish.. 1902, p. 308; -Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comin., xxii, 1903, p. 447; Snyder, Bull. 

 U.S. Fish. Cumm.. xxii. 1904, p. 525; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 

 xxiii. pt. 1, 1905, p. 197; Waite, Eec Austr. Mus.. vi, 1905, p. 71; Jordan and Seale, 

 Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., xxv. 1906, p. 232; idd., ibid., xxvi, 1907, p. 14; Seale & Bean. Proe. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxiii, 1908, p. 241; Jordan & Eichardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., iv. 

 No. I, 1909, p. 179. 



Foloosoo-Farah Russell, Fish. Vizagapatam, ii. 1803, p. 36, pi. cxlix. 



Caranx petaurista I. Geoffroy, Deser. Egypt, 1809, I'oiss., p. 325, pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 



Zonichthys suboarinata Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., ii, 1839, p. 24S. 



Caranx poloosoo Eichardson. ibid., pi. lviii, figs. 4, 5. 



Gnathanodon speciosus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., i, 1851, p. 160; id., ibid., ii, 1851, 

 ].. 471; id., ibid., iii. 1852, pp. 57, 236, 445; id.. Verh. Batav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Makreel., 

 p. 72; id., ibid., xxv, 1853, Bengal, p. 46; id.. Verh. Akad. Amsterdam, ii, 1855. van 

 Diemensland, p. 10; id.. Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., viii, 1855, p. 344; id., ibid., xv, 185S, 

 pp. 2(10, 223; id., ibid., xvi, 1859, p. 317; id., Act. Soe. Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, 1860, 

 Sumatra 1. p. 3d & 2, p. 2, Celebes, p. 40; id.., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., xxii, 1861, p. 65; 

 id., Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, xii, 1861, p. 74; id., Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., i, 1863, p. 235; 

 id., ibid., ii, 1865, pp. 191, 290; id., Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) ii. 1868, pp. 293, 300; 

 id., in Pollen & van Dam, Faun. Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss., p. 99; id., Verh. Akad. 

 Amsterdam, xviii. 1879, He Maurice, p. 18; Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North & Mid. 

 Amer., pt. 1, 1896, p. 928; Jordan Sc Eichardson, Check-List Fish. Philipp. Archip., 

 1910, p. 21. 



Caranx panamensis Gill, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1863, p. 166. 



Caranx edentulus Alleyne & Macleay, Proe. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i, pt. 4. Mar. 1877, p. 327. 

 pi. xi, fig. 2. 



Caranx ohtusiceps Macleay, Proe. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vii, pt. 3, 1882, p. 357. 



Caranx (Hypocaranx) speciosus Klunzinger, Fiseh. Eoth. Meer., 1884, p. 96, Steindachner, 

 Denk. Akad. Wien, lxx, 1900, p. 495. 



Caranx cives de Vis, Proe. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix, pt. 3, 29 Nov. 1884, p. 540. 



