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ALECTIS Rafinesque. 
87. Alectis major Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Zeus gallus Bloch, Ichthyologia, taf. 192, fig. 1, 1786; East Indies. (Not of Linnaeus, which =Selene vomer.) 
?Zeas virescens Lacépede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1v, 583, 1803; Atlantic, Mediterranean, East Indies. (Description insufficient.) 
Gallichthys major Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1x, 168, pl. 254, 1833; East Indies. 
Scyris indica Riippell, Atlas, 128, taf. 33, fig. 1, 1826; Red Sea. 
Alectis ciliaris, Jordan & Seale, Bul. U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, xxv1, 1906 (1907), 14. Cavite, P. I. Jordan & Evermann, 
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xxv, 1902, 338; Formosa. (Not Zeus ciliaris of Bloch.) 
Seven specimens from Manila, 3.50 to 4.50 inches long. 
Color in life, silvery white, with blue and bronze reflections, especially on lower half; upper half, 
dorsal, and anal washed with yellow; a dusky line from interorbital to dorsal, and along base of dorsal 
on each side; dorsal fin streamers and ventrals dusky brown; pectoral clear; caudal slightly washed 
with yellow. 
Comparison of adult specimens of Alectis major recently received from Formosa with specimens 
of Alectis ciliaris of the same size obtained by Doctor Gilbert at Panama leaves no doubt that the two are 
distinct species. They are well distinguished in Riippell’s figures (Atlas, pl. 33, fig. 1 and 2) of Blep- 
haris fasciatus (= A. ciliaris) and Scyris indica(= A. major). Bloch’s figure of Zeus ciliaris shows the 
ventrals too long, but there is no serious reason for doubting that it is the same as Blepharis fasciatus, 
distinguished as it is from Bloch’s Zeus gallus (= Gallichthys major C. & V.) by its convex profile, 
shorter nose, longer fin streamers, and basal blotch on dorsal fin. 
Family MENIDA. 
MENE Lacépede. 
88. Mene maculata (Bloch). Zapatero. 
One specimen from Manila, 5.50 inches long. 
Family RACHYCENTRIDA. 
RACHYCENTRON Kaup. 
89. Rachycentron canadum (Linnus). 
(Elacate pondicerriana Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 
One young specimen from Manila. 
It appears that this species undergoes considerable changes in form and coloration with age. The 
example before us, which is 10 inches long, has the caudal scarcely emarginate, tipped both above 
and below with white. The median lateral band is nearly twice as wide as the eye, and prominent. 
The specimen agrees in all respects with Russell's figure, no. 153, called by him Peddamottah, and taken 
from a specimen 1 foot 5 inches long. An apparently excellent figure of the Atlantic form was pub- 
lished by Doctor Holbrook in his Ichthyology of South Carolina (pl. 14, fig. 2), evidently from an 
adult specimen, as the tail is deeply notched and without white edges. Doctor Holbrook had seen 
specimens as long as 4 feet. We do not know the length of the specimen figured by Jordan & Evermann 
(Fishes of North & Middle America, pl. 148, fig. 401). Professor Riippell’s figure of an adult 
specimen from the Red Sea (Neue Wirbelthiere, pl. 12, fig. 3) does not appear to differ essentially 
from the figures of Holbrook and Jordan & Evermann of the Atlantic form, except that the dusky lat- 
eral stripes are wanting, doubtless due to age. Riippell’s specimens were 2 to 24 feet in length. Bloch’s 
figure of Scomber niger was based on an old manuscript drawing by Prince Maurice of Nassau, and is 
extremely poor, although doubtless representing the present species. 
Family TRICHIURIDA. 
TRICHIURUS Linnzus. 
90. Trichiurus haumela (Forskal). 
One specimen, 15 inches long, and three under 9 inches, from Manila. Color in life silvery white; 
dorsal pale yellow, edged with dusky; a dusky line along base of dorsal on each side; pectoral pale 
yellow, speckled with dusky. 
B. B. F. 1907—17 
