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and a third in the total length. Head longer than high, its length 

 contained four times and three-quarters in the same. Eye mode- 

 rately large, its diameter contained once and a half in the length of 

 the snout, which is obtuse. Lower jaw not prominent ; cleft of 

 mouth slightly oblique, low down in snout. Maxillary reaches to, 

 or slightly beyond, the vertical from front margin of orbit. The 

 interorbital space is equal to the length of the snout. Diameter of 

 the eye contained four times and a half in the length of the head ; 

 no adipose eyelid. Teeth in both jaws in a single series, without 

 canines ; those on the vomer in a rather large tetrahedral patch, 

 those on the palatines and tongue in elongated bands. 



The first dorsal is little developed, the spines feeble, and hardly 

 connected together by membranes ; its origin is nearer to the roots 

 than to the points of the ventral fins. The origin of the second 

 dorsal is nearer to the snout than to the fork of caudal ; its anterior 

 rays, as well as those of anal, produced (in this also it differs from 

 C. heholus). Caudal deeply forked ; the lobes are equal, their 

 length contained four times and a half in the total length ; a keel on 

 each side of its base. Soft anal similar to soft dorsal. Veutrals in- 

 serted behind the pectorals, and reaching a little beyond vent ; their 

 length is contained thrice and a half in that of the pectorals, which 

 are long, falciform, and extend to the seventeenth dorsal ray. 



Scales small, breast naked. Lateral line slightly arched, becom- 

 ing straight below the sixteenth dorsal ray ; the straight portion is 

 armed with about thirty-nine spiniferous plates, those on the free 

 portion of the tail being very strong and well developed. 



Length 16 inches. Creole name " Carangue chasseur." 



99. Caranx hasseltii, Blkr. 



100. C. XANTHURUS, K. & V. H. 



101. C. voMERiNus, Playf. 



102. C. MALABARicus, Schn. 



103. C. BAJAD, Forsk. 



104. C. FULvoGUTTATUs, Forsk. 



105. C. sPECiosus, Forsk. 

 lOG. C. RUPPELLii, Gthr. 



107. C. MELAMPYGUS, C. & V. 



108. C. SANSUN. 



Scomber sansun, Forsk. p. 56; Russell, ii. p. 33, pi. 144. 

 Caranx sansun, Rijpp. Atlas, Fische, p. 101 ; N. W. Fische, p. 48, 

 t. 13. f. 3 ; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 447. 



Hah, Seychelles ; Mauritius ; Red Sea ; coast of India. 



109. ('. ARMATUS, Forsk. 



