32 Fishes of the South Pacific. 



Caranx lugubris Poey. 



One specimen, No. [991 B. M , Rarotonga, Cook Ids. 

 Four specimens, Nos. 2266 2269 B.M., from Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas his. 



< me specimen, No. 1274 B. M., from Shortland, Solomons. 

 One specimen, No. 1407 B. M., from Tahiti. 



Caranx melampygus Cuvier & Valenciennes'). 



Depth 2.75; head 3.50; eye 4, a posterior adipose lid; scutes 

 34; I), vii, 22; A. 1, 19; interorbital space 3.50. 



Body oblong, compressed, the back evenly curved. Head 

 compressed, mouth low, oblique, the lower jaw slightly projecting; 

 maxillary scarcely reaching to below anterior margin of eye; teeth 

 of upper jaw in villiform bands, with an outer row of larger canine- 

 like teeth; lower jaw with a single row of small teeth; teeth on 

 vomer, palatine, and tongue; breast and cheeks scaly; lateral 

 line arched, becoming straight under the fifth dorsal ray; a recum- 

 bent spine under the skin; soft dorsal and anal fins similar, falcate 

 in front, the dorsal the highest; pectorals 3 in length of head and 

 body; ventrals short, 2 in head; caudal well forked, the lobes 

 equal. 



Color in spirits, olivaceous, bluish above, opercular spot obso- 

 lete; caudal, dorsal, and anal tipped with dusky. 



Three specimens from Tnbuai Ids., of Austral Group, Nos. 

 742*, 780, 782 B. M. 



Two specimens, Nos. 1212 and 1213* B. M., from Shortland, 

 Solomon Ids. 



One specimen, No. 2271 B.M., from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. 



Three specimens, Nos. 947, 943 and 948 B. M., from Fate, 

 New Hebrides. 



Family PHMPHERIM). 



Pempheris mangula Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



One specimen, No. 1511 B. M., from Tahiti. 



Family APOGONICHTHYID.-E. 

 Amia amboinensis Bleeker. 



One specimen of this species was taken at Shortland Id., Solo- 

 mons, No. 1307 B. M. 



Color in life, pale yellow, with two bright yellow stripes, made 

 up of round dots, along the sides; four golden dots on opercles; 

 fins all yellowish; eye blue, with narrow blue line from eye around 

 tip of snout. 



Amia novemfasciata Cuvier 6c Valenciennes). 



Two specimens, Nos. 985 and 1016* B. M., from Fate, New- 

 Hebrides. 



