PISCES 233 
CARANX Lacépéde, 1802. 
CARANX PLATESSA Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
TREVALLY. 
Caranx platessa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Ix., 
1833, p. 84. 
Caranx georgianus id., p. 85. Richardson, Voy. Ereb. and Terr., 
1848, p. 135, pl. lviii., fig. 1-3. 
Stations 74, 81, 86, 87, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96. 
Da Os CA. MS de 2 ge Vie ly ised 20 OE Ae Yee B 
L. lat. 68 + 44 = 107. 
This species was taken in Palliser Bay, off Cape Kidnappers, 
in Poverty Bay and in the Bay of Plenty. It was obtained 
between the extremes of 16 and 58 fathoms. 
Length.—469 mm. 
Family SCOMBRIDA. 
SCOMBER Linneus, 1758. 
SCOMBER PNEUMATOPHORUS De la Roche. 
MACKEREL. 
Scomber pneumatophorus De la Roche, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
xili., 1809, pp. 315, 334. McCoy. Prod. Zool. Vict. i., 1879, 
pl. xxviii. 
Station 72. 
rae erie Ae te a vies ob eo, Naor. a0yoe. 4 Or 
Li. lat. 225. 
Length of head 4.0, height of body 4.3, length of caudal 9.4 in 
the length. Diameter of eye 3.5, interorbital space and length 
of snout 3.3 in the head. 
Upper surface of snout and head flat without median groove, 
no ridge on the occiput; lower jaw slightly the longer, the 
maxilla, which is concealed beneath the preorbital, extends to just 
within the margin of the orbit; hinder edge directed obliquely 
backwards. Body not much compressed, its width 1.45 in its 
height. . 
Fins.—The distance between the tip of the snout and the 
origin of the first dorsal fin is 2.86, that between the origins of the 
two dorsals is 2.9, and the distance of the tip of the lower jaw to 
