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Family CARANGID. 
: SCOMBEROIDES Lacépéde. 
This genus is distinguished from the American genus Oligoplites by having teeth on the ptery- 
goids, the maxillary broad behind (probably with well-developed supplemental bone), and more 
numerous dorsal spines. The jaws are without anterior canines as in Oligoplites. 
It is clear from the statement of Cuvier & Valenciennes that all of their species, except the elon- 
gate Chorinemus tol, and the deep-bodied Chorinemus farkhari, possess the small-ovate evident scales 
usual in this genus. Ch. tol has slender, needle-like® or vermiculate scales as in the species of the 
American genus Oligoplites. The difference between the pointed ovoidal scales of S. sancti-petri and 
the needle-like scales of S. tol is, however, apparently much more a matter of degree than that between 
the scales of sancti-petri and the nearly orbicular ones of the two known species of the genus Eleria. 
72. Scomberoides tol (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Pipicao. 
Chorinemus tol Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vit, 385, 1831; Pondicherry. Gunther, Cat. Fishes, 1, 473, 1860. 
Chorinemus moadetta, Day, Fishes India, 230, pl. Lin. fig. 1, 1876 (not of Cuvier & Valenciennes, which=Scomberoides sancti- 
petri, a species with pointed ovoidal scales, and with two rows of spots on each side). 
Scomberoides toloo-parah, Jordan & Seale, Bul. U. S. Fish Comm., xxv1, 1906, 13; Cavite, P. I. (not of Riippell). 
Two specimens from Manila, 6 and 8 inches. This species is well distinguished from others of its 
genus by its slender form and narrow needle-like scales. The specimens from Giran, Formosa, iden- 
tified by Jordan & Evermann as Scomberoides orientalis, belong to Scomberoides tol. 
73. Scomberoides toloo-parah Riippell. . 
Two specimens, 10 inches long, from Cavite, taken by Dr. G. A. Lung, and recorded by Jordan & 
Seale as Scomberoides tala, evidently belong to this species of Riippell. They are marked by the long 
vertical fingermark-like blotches on each side, the anterior three of which cross the lateral line. The 
scales are ovate, pointed behind as in Scomberoides sancti-petri. The teeth are in two rows in the lower 
jaw, those of the inner row somewhat enlarged in the back half of the jaw; there are no anterior canines. 
The toloo parah of Russell, with spots above lateral line, and the Chorinemus toloo of Cuvier & Valen- 
ciennes, though both poorly characterized, are probably identical and distinct from Riippell’s species. 
The name toloo is here consequently retained for the species with anterior canines in lower jaw and 
with narrow maxillaries, first adequately described by Day under that name, and in the present paper 
recorded as Eleria tala. 
The specimens from Hawaii described by Jordan & Evermann as Scomberoides toloo-parah are 
referable rather to Scomberoides sancti-petri. The specimens taken in Samoa are properly identified 
as Scomberoides sancti-petri, of which Chorinemus moadetta Cuvier & Valenciennes is clearly a synonym. 
Klunzinger’s Chorinemus moadetta is plainly Scomberoides tol. 
ELERIA Jordan & Seale. 
This genus, originally based on Eleria philippina Jordan & Seale (=Chorinemus tala of Day, but 
probably not Chorinemus tala of Cuvier & Valenciennes), is distinguished from Scomberoides by its 
narrow maxillaries (much as in the American genus Oligoplites), its nearly orbicular scales, and by 
the presence of outwardly directed canine teeth in the front of the lower jaw. Teeth are present on 
the pterygoids as in Scomberoides. Only the original types of Eleria philippina are known to us. 
74. Eleria tala Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
(?) Scomber aculeatus Bloch, Ichthyologia, p!. 336, 1797; no locality. 
Chorinemus tala and C. toloo Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm, p. 37,, 1831; Malabar. 
A single specimen, 6.50 inches long, from Manila, and one, 4.50 inches, from Iloilo, This species 
differs from Eleria philippina in having the teeth weaker and the four anterior canines of the lower jaw 
directed outward at each edge of the symphysis. In Bleria philippina there are also two pairs of 
anterior canines, the posterior pair being situated inside the jaw at the symphysis and directed upward. 
We here follow Day in identifying the present species with the Chorinemus toloo of Cuvier & Valen- 
a On parts of the body these become quite short and are scarcely distinguishable in form from the scales of S. sancti- 
petri. 
