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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Citula 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 armatus 

 (Forskal) may be the same, but the body is deeper in some specimens called Caranx armatus than in 

 our specimens from Samoa, which we record provisionally as Caranx plmnbeus. In Caranx armatus the 

 depth is 2 to 2.5 in total length. 



452. Caranx mandibulars Macleay. New Guinea. 



Caranx mandibalaris Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1883, 356, New Guinea. 

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



453. Caranx gilberti Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.60 in length; depth 2.20; eye 4 in head, 1.10 in snout; interorbital 2.95 in head; dorsal 

 vi-i, 33; anal ii-i, 29; scales minute, 143 on lateral line, 25 of which are modified into plates of mod- 

 erate size; maxillary 2.50 in head, extending to below anterior margin of eye. 





Fig. 29. — Caranx gilberti Jordan & SeaJe, 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 fish 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; opercle 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, silver}' 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, from Pago Pago, island of Tutuila, length 

 8.50 inches. 



