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Cilula plumbea Quoy & Gaimard from He de France, with the fin-rays as in our specimens and the 

 depth nearly 3 in total length, is apparently identical with the species in hand. Caranx armntus 

 (Forskal) may be the same, but the body is deeper in some specimens called Caran.i: annatus than in 

 our specimens from Samoa, which we record provisionally a-s Caranx plumbeus. In Caranx armatus the 

 depth is 2 to 2.5 in total length. 



452. Caranx mandibularis Macleay. New Guinea. 



Caranx mandihiitarh Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 18S3, ■-iX, New Guinea. 

 This species lielongs to Citula, having the first dorsal ray very long. 



453. Caranx g-ilberti Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head :i.Wl ill length; depth 2.20, e\e 4 m head, 1 10 m «nont interorbital 1>.9.5 in head; dcir.sal 

 vi-i, :«; anal ii-i, 29; scales minute, 143 on lateral hne, 25 ot ^^hRh are modified into plates of mod- 

 erate size; maxillary 2.50 in head, extendmg to below anterior m irgin of eye. 



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Fig. 29. — Caranx gUberti Jordan &. Seale, new species. Type. 



Body ovate, strongly compressed, shaped as usual in Caranx, the upper profile more ovate than 

 lower; anterior lobes of dorsal and anal falcate, elongate and graduated, the anterior ray of dorsal 

 longer than head, 3 in length (without caudal), anterior ray of anal equal to head; base of dorsal 

 slightly greater than anal; pectoral reaching to below straight portion of lateral line, its length equal 

 to base of anal, 2.75 in length of flsh without caudal; length of caudal slightly less than pectoral; 

 ventrals 2 in head; teeth in villiform bands on vomer, palatine, and tongue; jaws with patches of 

 minute teeth in front and a single series on side, no enlarged outer teeth; gillrakers less than width of 

 eye, 14 on lower limb; preopercle entire; opefcle with slight rounded nick above; eye with adipose 

 membrane slightly developed; head and body scaled, except thorax, which is naked; dorsal and anal 

 enveloped in rather high shields. 



Color in spirits, silvery with slight brassy tint, darker above; dorsal, anal, and caudal with slight 

 dusky wash. There is a narrow black margin to caudal and a black line on margin of dorsal; pectoral 

 and ventral yellowish white. 



One specimen, type no. 51729, U. S. National Museum, fmfii Pago Pago, island of Tutuila, length 

 8.50 inches. 



