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Family XIPHIID£. 



407. Xipbias gladius Linnpeus. Hawaii; warm seas. 



Family CARANGIDjE. 

 SCOMBEROIDES Lacepede. 



408. Scomberoides sanctipetri (Cuvier & Valenciennes I. Lai. Hawaii; Samoa; Kingsmill I.: 



Tahiti; Johnston I. 



This widely diffused species is rather common ahout Samoa and Hawaii. A few specimens were 

 taken in the channels of Apia. 



409. Scomberoides tolooparah (Riippell). Hawaii; New Ireland; Vanicolo; New Guinea (Mac- 



leay); East Indies. 



410. Scomberoides lysan (Forskal). New Guinea (Macleay). 



SERIOLA Cuvier. 



411. Seriola purpurescens Schlegel. Hawaii; Japan. 



412. Seriola sparna Jenkins. Hawaii. 



NATJCRATES Rafinesque. 



413. Naucrates ductor (Linnseus). Hawaii; Japan; warm seas. 



ELAGATIS Bennett. 



414. Elagatis bipinnulatus Quoy & Gaimard. Hawaii; lies des Papous; New Britain (Peters); 



Solomon Is. (Seale); East Indies; West Indies. 



MEGALASPIS" Bleeker. 



415. Megalaspis cordyla (Linnteus). Atualo. Samoa; East Indies. 

 Common in the open channels in the reef. 



DECAPTERUS Bleeker. 



416. Decapterus pinnulatus (Eydoux & Souleyet). Hawaii; Raiatea; Tahiti; Bonin Is.; Pau- 



motu Is. 

 (Decapterus canonoides Jenkins.) 



This species is different from Decapterus muro-adsi of Japan, and apparently also distinct from 

 Decapterus sanctsehelense of the Atlantic. 



417. Decapterus lundini Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.75 in length; depth 3.20; eye 4 in head, 1.20 in snout; dorsal vr-i, 21-1; anal n, 21-1; 

 scales small, 95 in lateral line, of which .45 are modified with plates; interorhital, 4 in head; maxillary, 

 3, reaching'to below the anterior margin of eye, all but its posterior third hidden under the preorbital. 



Body elongate, compressed, fusiform; scales covering entire body and head; adipose eyelid well 

 developed, covering entire eye except width of pupil; small teeth in single series o:i jaws and 

 palatines, slightly enlarged teeth on vomer; very minute teeth on tongue; gillrakers shorter than 

 width of eye, 24 on lower limb; preopercle entire, opercle with small rounded nick on upper margin; 

 base of dorsal slightly greater than anal, its longest ray 1.85 in head; first ray of anal 2 in head; 



oThe name Megalaspis Bleeker datea from 1851. At about the same time Angelin gave the same name to a genus of 

 Trilobites. As to this Dr. Stejneger observes (in lit. Dec. 16, 1904): "Two straws point to the Trilobite's ln-iii-^r the 

 younger name. Bleeker's Megalaspis is mentioned in the ' Leistungen ' for 1851. Angelin's name is not mentioned in the 

 ' Leistungen ' until 1852-3." There is also doubt for other reason* whether Angelin's paper appeared before 1852. We there- 

 fore retain Megalaspis for the genus of fishes. 



