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-owing to the greater flatness of the latter, the occipito-nuchal profile is constantly 

 gibbous at all ages, and the dorsal fin is uniform in coloration ; in A. ciliaris the 

 dorsal contour is about as high as the ventral at all ages, the entire dorsal profile 

 from the snout to the dorsal fin is evenly rounded in the adult, and the filiform 

 dorsal rays are basally black. 



Snyder remarks — " "When compared with examples of A. major from 

 Formosa, specimens of this species (i.e. A. ciliaris) may be recognised at a 

 glance by the heavier body, smaller head which is much broader between the eyes, 

 and the darker dorsal surface with the distinct curved lateral bands." The 

 mention of lateral bands proves that Snyder had young examples only on which 

 to base his conclusions, a fact which materially diminishes their value, and indeed 

 while my investigations tend to show that all four are worthless as differential 

 characters, two at least, the first and the last, are actually misleading. 



"With regard to the third species, A. alexandrina 2 from the Mediterranean 

 and Tropical "West Africa, the main differences between it and A. indica, to which 

 it is more closely allied, seem to be the increased number of dorsal and anal rays 

 and the decreased number of lateral line scutes. 



ALECTIS INDICA (Riippell). 



Meer-licen Nieukof , Voy. Ind. Orient., i, 1682, p. 270, c. fig. ; Willugkby, Hist. Pise, App., 1686, 



pi. vii, fig. 1. 

 ITcan-Tcapelle Euysch, Theatr. Anim., i, 1718, pi. ix, fig. 7. 

 Ikan-oatoe-jang-malia-asing Valentyn, Amboina, iii, 1726, p. 465, fig. 376. 

 -Zeus sp. No. S Artedi, Gen. Pise, 1738, p. 50 (not synon.) ; Seba, Thesauri, iii, 1761, pi. xxvi, 



fig. 34. 

 Bonyte-laertje Eenard, Poiss. Moluq. et Terres Austr., ii, 1754, pi. xxvi, fig. 128. 

 Zeus gallus part. B'loch, Ausl. Fisch., vi, 1788, pi. exeii, fig. 1 Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth., Ickth., 



1788, p. 71; Gmelin, Linnaeus Syst. Nat., ed. 13, i, 1789, p. 1222; Schneider, in Bloch, 



Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 91. 

 Gallus virescens part. Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1802, p. 583, 584. 

 Zeus gallus Eussell, Fish. Vizagapatam, i, 1803, p. 45. Not of Linnaeus. 

 • Gurrali-Parali Eussell, ibid., pi. lvii. 

 Scyris indicus Eiippell, Atlas Fisch. Eoth. Meer., 1828, p. 128, pi. xxxiii, fig. 1 (young) ; 



id., Neue Wirbelth. Abyss., Fisch., 1837, p. 51; Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., ii, 1839, p. 251; 



Cantor, Catal. Malay. Fish., 1850, p. 134. 

 •Scyris indica Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 145, pi. cclii; Eichardson, 



Eep. Ichth. China and Japan, 1845, p. 276. 

 Galliclitliys major Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 168, pi. ecliv; Eichardson, ibid., p. 271; 



Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen., xxii, 1849, Bali, p. 3; id., ibid., xxiii, 1850, Java, p. 8; 



Cantor, ibid., p. 136. 

 Blepharis galliclitliys Swainson, ibid., p. 250. 

 Scyris ruppellii Swainson, ibid., p. 251. 

 ■Carangoides galliclitliys Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., ii, 1851, p. 471; id., ibid., iii, 1852, 



p. 57; id. Verh. Batav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Makreel., p. 68; id., ibid., xxv, 1853, Bengal, 



p. 44; id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., xii, 1856, p. 215; id. ibid., xvii, 1858, p. 147; id., 



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



ibid., Borneo, p. 24; id., ibid., Celebes, p. 39. 



2 Caranx alexandrinus Geoffroy, Descr. Egypt, Poiss., pi. xxii, fig. 2. 



