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1305(a). HEMICARANX FALCATUS (Holbrook). 



Head 6 in total length ; depth about 3. D. VII-I, 28 ; A. II-I, 25 ; C. 19 ; 

 V. 5 ; P. 16; lateral line with 50 plates. Body oval, compressed; the head 

 short, the facial outline descending in a gentle curve to snout, which is 

 rounded though narrow. Eye large, in the middle third of the head, the 

 posterior margin rather nearer snout than posterior margin of opercle; 

 nostrils close together, nearly midway between eye and snout, and on a 

 line within the orbit, the posterior larger, subround, the anterior ovoidal. 

 Mouth small; each jaw with a single row of slender, conical teeth; a 

 small patch of minute teeth on the vomer, and a small, narrow group oi 

 similar teeth on the palatines ; tongue small, narrow, a few minute teeth 

 near its base; pharyngeal bones armed with numerous card-like teeth, 

 longer than those of the jaws. Soft dorsal long and low, the firsts or 4 ray a 

 moderately elevated, the tin scaled at base; pectoral falcate, very long, 

 extending to anterior third of soft dorsal; ventral small, very short, reach- 

 ing beyond vent; anal shaped like the soft dorsal; caudal very long and 

 widely forked, the upper lobe more than \ longer than the lower. Lat- 

 eral line at first almost semicircular; at origin of soft dorsal descending 

 to median plane, then straight; plates beginning with the soft dorsal in- 

 creasing in size to the thirty-fifth, whence they decrease rapidly; scales 

 minute, those of lateral line elongated quadrilateral, with 1 angle pro- 

 longed and rounded. Color, upper part of head and body above lateral line 

 pale brown with slight bluish tint ; lower jaw, opercle, and side yellowish ; 

 belly silvery, with a slight golden tint; anterior dorsal transparent; pos- 

 terior transparent but with a yellowish tint ; caudal yellowish. Known 

 certainly only from Charleston, South Carolina. 



Caranx falcatus, HOLBROOK, Icbth. South Carolina, 92, pi. 13, fig. 2, Charleston, South 

 Carolina. 



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1306(a). HEMICARANX ZELOTES, Gilbert, new species. 



Head 4 to 41 ; depth 2f to 2|. D. VII-I, 26 to 29 ; A. II-I, 23 to 25 ; P. 20 

 to 22 ; scutes about 52. Body regularly elliptical, its greatest depth about in 

 middle of its length, exclusive of caudal peduncle. Head small; anterioi 

 profile more decurved, and hence the snout is blunter than in H. atrimanm; 

 depth of head just behind eye about f its length. Jaws snbequal, tip ol 

 lower slightly projecting; maxillary narrow, not quite reaching anterioi 

 margin of pupil, about 3, 1 - in head (3 to 3| in atrimanus). A single series 

 of small, close-set, subequal teeth in each jaw; no teeth on vomer, pala- 

 tines, or tongue. Orbit considerably greater than snout, 3 to 3^ in head. 

 Interorbital width (taken at anterior margin of orbit) slightly less than 

 orbit. Occiput with an evident carina. Distance from snout to first dor- 

 sal spine greater than length of pectoral. Spinous dorsal very low, the 

 highest spine considerably less than orbit (greater than orbit in atrimanus) ; 

 a well-developed antrorse spine before the dorsal; soft dorsal and anal 

 similar, not falcate, the rays decreasing in size from the first; highest ray 

 of soft dorsal 2 to 2^ in head ; highest ray of anal about 2 in head ; dor- 

 sal and anal depressible into a high sheath of scales, the last 3 or 4 rays 



