art.2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—FOWLER AND BEAN. 19 
Family CARANGIDAE. 
SCOMBEROIDES TOL (Cuvier). 
Head, 32 to 44; depth, 34 to 32; D. I, VII—n, 20, once 19; A. II—1, 
19, occasionally 18; snout, 3 in head from upper jaw tip; eye, 34; 
maxillary, 2; interorbital, 34. Gull-rakers, 6 or 7+18 or 19. Color 
in alcohol, back bluish-gray, sides and below silvery-white. Row 
of seven obscure small spots along side of back. Membranes of 
spinous dorsal blackish, also apex of soft dorsal, though rest of fin 
gray. Caudal pale, grayish behind. Other fins pale. Ivis silvery- 
white. Length, 45 to 163 mm. Hight from Takao. 
All agree with examples in the Academy from Sumatra and the 
Philippines, the latter recorded as S. tala by Fowler.** Some of the 
same also have the pronounced external conic canines, but all have 
linear scales. On the contrary, Bean and Weed, they doubtless 
having examined the type, place Eletra philippina as a synonym of 
Scomberoides lysan.> Jordan and Seale do not describe or indicate 
in any way the nature of the scales. Such characters as they give 
would point to its association with S. tala (Cuvier), with which it 
is included by Jordan and Richardson.t* However, a small Philip- 
pine example, 83 mm. long, in the Academy, which we believe to be 
the young of S. dysan (Forskal), has the maxillary reaching a little 
beyond the hind eye edge. Now, the type of Lletra philippina, 121 
mm. long, is said to have the maxillary reaching only to the last 
third of the eye, which is apparently correctly indicated by the 
fioure. 
CARANX MATE Cuvier. 
Head, 33; depth, 374; D. VITI—1, 24; A. II—1, 20; scales, 40 in 
curve of lateral line, 53 in straight section, of which last 10 on caudal 
base; snout, 34 in head; eye, 34; maxillary, 22; interorbital, 33. 
Gill-rakers, 11+-28, lanceolate, slightly less than filaments, or 14 in 
eye. Scales with circuli vertically parellel, 44 basal and 33 apical, 
confluent down vertical axis. Pectoral about equals arch of lateral 
line, which 14 in straight section. Large dark blotch on hind opercle 
edge, little smaller than eye. Length, 120 mm. Cebu. 
Though smaller, this agrees in most respects with Sumatran exam- 
plesin the Academy. We note that Caranx mate Cuvier" has prior- 
ity over L. affinis Riippell,!® which latter is mostly in use. 
“Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1918, p. 14. 
1% Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 602. 
36 Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 2, 1910, p. 19. 
“Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 9, 1833, p. 40. Pondichery, Seychelles, New Guinea, Anjer. 
8 Neue Wirbelth., 1835 (March, 1838), p. 49, pl. 14, fig. 1. Red Sea. 
