PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. A487 
level of the lower edge of the pupil. Teeth small, villiform, in a narrow 
band in each jaw ; those in the outer series slightly enlarged; the band 
in the upper jaw considerably broader than that in the lower; no canine 
teeth ; bands of villiform teeth on vomer, palatine, and tongue. <Adi- 
pose eyelid little developed. Cheeks and opercles scaly. Gill-rakers 
long, longer than the pupil. Breast closely scaled, its scales a little 
smaller than those on the sides. Upward curve of lateral line not very 
strong. Armature of tail feeble, only those plates on the caudal peduncle 
itself having distinct spines; about 26 plates may be counted before 
they merge into the ordinary seales. 
Spinous dorsal low and feeble, the highest spine scarcely as long as 
the snout, the last spine nearly free, short and thickish; a small pro- 
eumbent spine before the dorsal; soft parts of dorsal, anal, and caudal 
densely covered with small scales; soft dorsal and anal low, their highest 
yays scarcely longer than the snout; free anal spines, separate from the 
fin but connected with each other, scarcely longer than the pupil; caudal 
fin short, not widely forked, the lobes equal, the upper lobe ? length of 
head, the distance vertically between their tips slightly less than the 
length of the head; ventral fins very short, searcely longer than snout, 
reaching about half way to anal; pectoral fins faleate, reaching about 
to the fourth soft ray of anal, their insertion on the level of the max- 
illary, their outer surface largely scaly; length of pectorals 3 the great- 
est depth, about equal to length of head. 
Fin rays: D. VILI-I, 26; A. II-I, 23. 
Two specimens of this species were obtained by Mr. Charles H. Gil- 
bert and myself at Beaufort, N. C., in the summer of 1877. They were 
taken with a small seine in the harbor, close to the shore. 
It agrees in dentition and many other respects with Caranx cibi Poey, 
but the latter species is much slenderer, the depth of the body being 
about equal to the length of the pectorals or the length of the head. I 
place it provisionally in the genus Caran, the value of the various pro- 
posed subdivisions of the latter group not being evident. 
The example from which the preceding description was taken has 
been presented to the United States National Museum, where it is num- 
bered 27372. 
I present a table of comparative measurements of the type Caranx 
beani and of one of Poey’s types of C. cibi. 
