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pectoral 3.10 in length, extending to below the 8th dorsal ray; ventral 2 in liead; caudal slightly 

 less than head, 4.50 in length; depth of caudal peduncle, 2 in its width (with keels). 



Color in spirits, silvery with wash of yellowish below, darker above, with about nine indistinct 

 vertical brown bands as wide as eye and slightly greater than the interspaces on sides of body, fading 

 out below lateral line; a distinct black opercular spot; a dusky wash on inner axil of pectoral; a dusky 

 blotch on tip of snout and tip of lower jaw; a golden wash on preopercle; dorsal and anal yellowish- 

 white with narrow dusky margin; pectoral, ventral, and caudal yellowish-white. 



One specimen, type no. .51727, U. S. National Museum, from Pago Pago, length 7.25 inches, taken 

 in a school of the common "atule" ( Tr<tchuropx). 



Fig. 27.—Decnptcrus luiidini Inrdiui A. .scule, new species. Type. 



TEACHTJROPS Gill. 



In this genus there is much variation in the size of the eye. In mawlliaiia { = torva) the eye is 

 smaller than in crtimenophthalma. In the Japanese form it is still smaller. We can not yet clearly 

 define these forms as different species. 



418. Trachurops crumenoplitlialma (Bloch). Atuk. Samoa; Hawaii; Tahiti; Solomon Is.; New 



Hebrides; Marquesas Is.; and Rarotonga (Seale); all warm seas. 

 This species is the commonest food-fish of Samoa, entering the harbors in great schools. The 

 flesh is excellent. There is apparently no difference between Trachurops lorva and the common T. 

 cruiiienojihtlmhiia of the Atlantic. 



CABANX (Commerson) Lac^pfede. (Including Caranyus Griffith = Tricopterm Rafinescjue, 1810.) 



419. Caranx lugubris Poey. Kingsmill Is.; Rarotonga; Marquesas Is.; Tahiti and Solomon Is. 



(Seale); West Indies; Clarion Island; St. Helena. 



420. Caranx melampygus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Muliiuli. Hawaii; Samoa; Marcus I.; New 



(iuinea; Waigiu; Rawak; Austral Is.; Solomon Is. and New Hebrides (Seale); Clarion Is.; 

 East Indies. 

 This species is the finest of the commoner food-fishes of Samoa, being especially excellent as 

 chowder. It is abundant in the channels between the reefs, reaching a large size. Several scores of 

 specimens were taken, a few lieing preserved. 



Life colors of a si)ecimen from Pago Pago, body light olive with darker olive spots; fins deep 

 clear blue. 



421. Caranx thompsoni Seale. Hawaii. 



422. Caranx forsteri Cuvier & Valenciennes. Ulua. Samoa; Hawaii; Papua; Vanicolo; New- 



Ireland; New Guinea; Tanna; Tahiti (Seale); East Indies. 

 The earliest name for the ulua seems to be that of Caranx forsteri. According to Sauvage (Poiss. 

 Madagascar) the types of Caratu- sem and Caranx lesson! have the breast naked. These must then go 



