ArT.2, FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—-FOWLER AND BEAN. Q21 
Carane mandibularis Macleay ?* appears to be the earliest name for 
the present species. It was based on examples about a foot in length. 
Though some minor differences may appear in comparing the original 
description, we doubt not that they are a condition of age or indi- 
vidual variation. For instance, the scutes are given as 60-+45 and 
the long dorsal ray about equals the body depth. 
CARANX ATROPOS (Forskal). 
Head, 22; depth, 12; D. VITI—n, 20; A. II1—x11, 16; snout, 34 in 
head; eye, 22; maxillary, 2; interorbital, 23. Gill-rakers, 7-++18, 
lanceolate, little longer than filaments, or 17 in eye. Breast naked. 
First dorsal ray elongate, slender, depressed backward opposite cau- 
dal base. First anal ray elongate, extends backward little beyond 
caudal base. Pectoral obtuse, 14 in head. Ventral blackish, reaches 
soft dorsal origin. No opercular spot. One, 43 mm. Takao. 
Our example is identical with the Sumatran figured by Fowler 
as Citula atropos and which had the first branched dorsal and anal 
rays with broken tips. Just how much they may have been pro- 
longed we can not determine. The same specimen was later wrongly 
associated with Caranx armatus (Forskal).22 Our comparison with 
the Sumatran specimen shows it to belong as originally identified. 
The species is distinguished by its blackish ventrals. 
SCYRIS INDICA Riippell. 
One, 168 mm. Takao. Agrees with Sumatran material in the 
Academy upon comparison. 
Family SCORPIDAE. 
MONODACTYLUS ARGENTEUS (Linnaeus). 
Head, 375; depth, 14; D. VIII, 29,1; A. III, 29, 1; scales, 53 in 
lateral] line to caudal base and 5 more in latter; about 15 scales above 
lateral line to soft dorsal base; 40 scales below lateral line to spinous 
anal origin; snout, 44 in head; eye, 2%; maxillary, 345; interorbital, 
2%. Gill-rakers, 9-++17, lanceolate, 14 in filaments or 3 in eye. Scales 
each with single basal stria, cireuli very fine, and minute apical den- 
ticles very numerous. Color in alcohol pale brownish generally, 
front lobes of soft dorsal and anal dusky, that of latter nearly black- 
ish. Other fins pale, hind caudal edge grayish. Iris dark. Length, 
147 mm. Cebu. 
2 Proc. Linn. N. 8. Wales, vol. 7, 1882, p. 356. New Guinea. 
Proce. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1905, p. 83. 
