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pectoral 3.10 in length, extending to below the 8th dorsal ray; ventral 2 in head; 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" ( Trachurops). 



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Fig. 27. — Decapterus lundini Jordan & Seaie, new species. Type. 



TRACHUROPS Gill. 



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

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

 define these forms as different species. 



418. Tracliurops crumenophtlialnia (Bloch) . Atule. 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 torva and the common T. 

 crumenophthalma of the Atlantic. 



CARANX (Cornmerson) Lacepede. (Including Carangus Griffith = Tricopterus Rafinesque, 1810.) 



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



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



420. Caranx melampyg-us Ouvier & Valenciennes. Malauli. Hawaii; Samoa; Marcus I.; New 



Guinea; 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 being preserved. 



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

 clear blue. 



421. Caranx thompsoni Seale. Hawaii. 



422. Caranx forsteri Cuvier & Valenciennes. TJlua. 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 Caranx sem and Caranx lessoni have the breast naked. These must then go 



