84 3IJ-M0IBS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Caranx gallus Gunther, Brit. Mm Catal. Fish., ii, 1860, p. 455; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865,. 



p. 25; id., Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 91; Klunzinger, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1871, 



p. 454; Gunther, Fisch. d. Sudsee, pt. 4, 1876, p. 135; Day, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 224, 



pi. Ii, fig. 3 ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, v, 1881, p. 538 ; Boulenger, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. London, 1887, p. 661; Kent, Great Barrier Eeef, 1893, p. 289, ehro.-pl. xvi, fig. 2; 



id., Natur. in Austr., 1897, p. 169, text-fig. p. 153, and pi. xxvii, fig A; Stead, Edib. 



Fish. X. S. Wales, 1908, p. 88, pi. lviii. 

 Carangoides gallus Bleeker, Yersl. Akad. Amsterdam, xii, 1861, pp. 53, 74; id., ibid., xiv, 



1862, p. 106. 

 Citula gallus Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., i, 1863, p. 242; id., ibid., ii, 1865, pp. 174, 191, 



290; id., Yersl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) ii, 1868, pp. 293, 300; id., Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., iv, 



1873, p. 132; id., in Pollen and van Dam, Faun, Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss., p. 99. 

 Caranx ciliaris Day, Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 90 (yoxing). Not Zeus ciliaris Bloch. 

 Scyris gallus Klunzinger, Fisch. Both. Meer., i, 1884, p. 101 . 

 Alectis ciliaris Stead, Fish. Austr., 1906, p. 158 (letterpress) ; Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. 



Bur. Fish., xxvi, 1907, p. 14; Seale & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxiii, 1908, p. 242.. 



Not Zeus ciliaris Bloch. 

 Caranx (Alectis) gallus Stead, Addit. Fish. Faun. X. S. Wales, 1907, p. 16, pi. iv. 

 Alectis Major Jordan & Biehardson, Bull U. S. Bur. Fish., xxvii, 1908, p. 251; idd., Mem. 



Carnegie Mus., iv, Xo. 4, 1909, p. 180; idd., Check-List. Fish. Philipp. Archip., 1910, p. 21. 

 Alectis indicus Bean & Weed, Proc. U. S. X T at. Mus., xlii, 1912, p. 600. 



PLUMED TEEVALLY. 



Diamond Fish (Kent) ; Silvery Moon-Fish (Stead). 

 (Plate XXVI.) 



Type localities: — Ked Sea at Massawa (S. indicus). 

 Pondieherry (G. major). 



Dorsal contour of the body angular and elevated, more so in the young 

 than in the adult, much higher than the ventral contour, the highest point being 

 at the origin of the soft dorsal, between which and the occiput it is linear or 

 feebly emarginate and moderately declivous; base of dorsal linear and rather 

 less declivous; ventral contour linear from the throat to the middle of the 

 breast, thence convex to between the ventral-bases, beyond which it is feebly 

 concave to the anal, the base of which is linear and acclivous ; width of body 

 4-6 to 3-85 in its depth, which is 145 to 1-85 in its length and 2 to 1-75 times the 

 length of the head; abdominal region short, 1-95 to 1-7 in the length of the 

 anal ; caudal peduncle deeper than wide in the young, wider than deep in the 

 adult, its width 2-2 to 1-5 in the eye-diameter. Head rather large and deep, its 

 anterior profile slightly concave and very strongly acclivous, the occipital profile 

 gibbous, its length 2-95 to 3-25 in that of the body, its width 2-8 to 24 in its 

 depth, which is a little more than its length ; cranio-nuchal keel trenchant in the 

 young, becoming blunter with age. Snout long and pointed; eye moderate, its 

 diameter 3-55 to 44 in the length of the head and 1-6 to 2-15 in that of the 

 snout; interorbital region elevated, its width from one fifth less than the eye- 

 diameter in the young to a little more in the adult. Lower jaw strongly declivous ;: 



