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young. Not one of these features can, however, be used for generic 
distinction, as they increase by easy transitions from species to species. 
On the other hand, comparing Caranx otrynter with Selene vomer, we 
find that in almost every one of the differences above noted the latter 
species carries these characters to a still greater extreme, and differs 
from Caranx otrynter in just the respects in which the latter differs from 
Caranx hippos. Caranx setipinnis is, in some regards, a species still 
more extreme than Selene vomer, although it has not quite lost the 
lateral scutes. 
25. Caranx crinitus (Mitchill) Jordan & Gilbert. 
? Zeus gallus L., Syst. Nat., x (includes Selene, &c.). 
? Caranz gallus Giinther, ii, 455 (East Indies). 
? Zeus ciliaris Bloch, Ichthyol., vi, 29, taf. 29, 1788 (East Indies; young of C. 
gallus ?). 
? Caranx ciliaris Giinther, ii, 454, 1860 (East Indies); ? Giinther Fische der 
Siidsee, 1876, 135, taf. 89; ? Day, Fishes Malabar, 90, 1865. 
Gallichthys ciliaris Liitken, Spolia Atlantica, 1880, 139, 197. 
Scomber filamentosus Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soce., iii, 56, 1797 (Sumatra). 
? Gallus virescens La Cépeéde, iv, 583, 1803 (after Linnzus). 
Zeus crinitus Mitchill, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, xi, 144, 1826 (Shoreham). 
Blepharis crinitus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna Fish, 1842, 123; Jordan & Gilbert 
Syn. Fish. N. A., 438. 
Blepharichthys crinitus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 262 (Cape San 
Lucas). 
Caranz crinitus Jor. & Gilb., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 359. 
Gallichthys crinitus Liitken, Spolia Atlantica, 1880, 151, 197. 
? Seyris indica C. & V., ix, 145 (East Indies). 
? Blepharis indicus C. & V., ix, 154. 
Blepharis sutor C. & V., ix, 161 (Caribbean Sea). 
Curanx sutor Giinther, ii, 454. 
Blepharis major C. & V., ix, 163 (West Indies). 
? Gallichthys major C. & V., ix, 168 (East Indies). 
? Gallichthys chevola C & V., ix, 175 (East Indies). 
? Carangoides blepharis Bleeker, Verhand. Batav. Genoots. xxiv, Makr., 67, 
1852 (East Indies). 
? Carangoides gallichthys Bleeker, 1. c., 68 (East Indies). 
? Hynnis cubensis Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii, 535, 1860 (Cuba); Enum. Pisce. Cubens., 
79. 
cae analis Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 1868, 369 (Cuba); Enum. Pisce. Cubens., 
ide 
Habitat.—Tropical America on both coasts, north to Cape Cod and 
Mazatlan. ? East Indies. 
The many nominal species of this type have been reduced by Liitken 
to three or four: C. gallus and C. ciliaris of the East Indies, C. alexan- 
drinus of North Africa, and C. crinitus of America. We have not 
examined the East Indian forms, but see no reason for doubting that 
ciliaris is the young of gallus, as has been supposed by Dr. Day and 
others. Our young specimens of C. crinitus, moreover, agree fully with 
the figures of C. ciliaris. We think it, therefore, extremely probable 
that all the nominal species of this type (except C. alexandrinus) are 
