EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND —OGILBY. IT 



CITULA CHRYSOPHRYS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Caranx chrysophrys Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 77, pi. ecxlvii; Kner, 



Reise jNovara, Fisch., pt. 2, 1865, p. 355; Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 661. 

 % Caranx chrysophrys var. hyemalis Richardson, Rep. Ichth. China & Japan, 1845, p. 275. 

 Carangoides chrysophryoides Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., i, 1851, p. 366; id., Verh. 



Batav. Gen., xxiv. 1852, Makreel., p. 63. 

 Caranx chrysophryoides Giinther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., ii, 1860, p. 452 (after Bleeker). 

 Citula chrysophrys Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., iv, 1873, p. 132; id., in Pollen & van Dam, 



Faune Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss., p. 99. 



LONG-NOSED TREVALLV. 

 (Plate XXIV.) 



Type localities: — Seychelles (C. chrysophrys). 

 Batavia (C. chrysophryoides). 



Body ovate and strongly compressed, the dorsal contour evenly rounded 

 and more elevated than the ventral, which is linear and moderately declivous 

 between the tip of the mandible and the ventral bus, feebly emarginate between 

 the ventrals and the anal, the base of which is feebly convex and more strongly 

 acclivous; width of body 3-95 to 4-05 in its depth, which is 2 to 2-1 in its length 

 and 1-5 to 1-67 time the length of the head; abdominal region moderate, its 

 length 1-7 to 1-85 in that of the anal ; caudal peduncle about one fourth deeper 

 than wide, its width 2-1 to 2-25 in the eye-diameter. Head rather large, the 

 profile linear and moderately acclivous to above the eye, the occipito-nuchal 

 region gently convex, its width 2-35 in its length, which is equal to its depth and 

 3 to 3.25 in the body-length; cranio-nuehal keel well developed. Eye moderate, 

 with the adipose lid but little developed, not nearly reaching to the pupil in 

 front or behind, its diameter 34 to 3-75 in the length of the head. 1-35 in that 

 of the snout, and a trifle more than the elevated and acutely convex interorbital 

 width. Lower jaw slightly protruding; mandible extending to below the middle 

 of the eye. maxillary to a little beyond its anterior border or even to below that 

 of the pupil, its length 24 to 2-5 in that of the head, the width of its concave 

 distal extremity equal to or a little less than its distance from the eye and 1-85 

 to 2 in the eye-diameter. Angle of preopercle moderately crenulate. 



Jaws with broad bands of villiform teeth, the outer series slightly enlarged ; 

 head of vomer with an angular band of similar teeth, the shaft smooth ; villiform 

 teeth in well developed bands on the palatines: tongue toothless. 



Cheeks, temples, and upper edge of opercles scaly ; rest of head, a narrow 

 stripe along each side of the nuchal ridge, and breast naked; preorbital and 

 preopercle crossed by ramulose mucous canals ; nuchal stripe with a similar 

 canal, which does not extend to the level of the dorsal. Lateral line moderately 

 curved to below the 13th dorsal ray, the length of the curved section three fifths 

 more than that of the straight, which is weakly armed posteriorly with 20 to 

 26 feeble plates, the widest of which, on the peduncle, is about one sixth of the 

 eve-diameter. 



