BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 9 



2-4 in the snout ; interorbital region feebly convex. 

 Maxillary extending to below the anterior border of the 

 «ye, its distance from which is 3, its greatest width 2-2 

 in the eye-diameter ; lower jaw without fleshy appendage. 

 Pre maxillary teoth about 54 on e&ch r?imus ; posterior 

 canine much the larger ; 4 enlarged pala,tine teeth, the 

 second the strongest ; mandible with 9 lateral teeth, the 

 canine sinistral. Operclo with a weak spine. Cheeks 

 and opercles scaly ; upper surface of head naked. 



Dorsal fin originating well in advance of the tip of 

 the appressed pectoral ; dorsal spines flexible, the second 

 the longest, 1-35 in the length of the snout ; soft dorsal 

 higher than the spinous, its last ray produced. Anal 

 originating below the middle of, terminating well behind, 

 and similar in size and shape to the soft dorsal. Middle 

 caudal rays 3 in the upper and longer lobe ; depth of ped- 

 uncle one and one sixth time the diameter of the eye. 

 Pectoral fin 1-25 in the length of the snout and extending 

 well beyond the origin of the ventral. Ventral inserted 

 below the origin of the spinous dorsal and midway between 

 the tip of the mandible and the middle of the anal, its 

 length 1'45 in the snout. 



No elongate gill-raker. 



Above purple, each of the scales with a light centre ; 

 sides silvery, crossed by fourteen vertical purple bars, 

 the first behind the tip of the pectoral, the last above the 

 6nd of the anal ; lower surface pearly white ; dcrsal fins 

 blackish ; caudal grayish brown, darkest above ; aral, 

 ventrals, and pectorals gray, the anterior rays of the former 

 and the outer rays of the two latter dusky. 



Total length 405 millimeters. 



Described from a single specimen obtained at the 

 Aru Islands by Mr. John Colclough. 



Type in the A.F.A.Q. Museum., Cat. No. 1066. 



CARANGID.E. 



DECAPTERUS ? ECCLIPSIFER (De Vis).* 



D. viii, i 32 i ; A. ii, i 28 i ; P. 21 : Sc. 124 ; L.l. 86- 

 Depth of body 4-30, length of head 3-65, height of soft 

 dorsal 8*90, of anal 9-30, length of pectoral 3-75 in 



• Caranx ecclipsijer De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ix, 1884, 

 p. 541 : Cape York. 



