506 A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM SUMATRA. 



rays. Base of pectoral inside fin lemon-yellow. Edges of membranes between 

 dorsal spines lemon-yellow. Inside of gill-opening tinted with deep rosy. Perito- 

 neum silvery. 



Length 91 inches. 



Type No. 27,472, A. N. S. P. Padang. 



One example. This species is closely related to Holocenthrus albo-ruber, 

 differing in its more elongate body. It also resembles Holocenthrus melanospilos 

 (Bleeker),! but differs from that species in the absence of the nasal spines. Anterior 

 or upper rays of the soft vertical fins are not dark. 



{Aureus, golden ; ruber, red.) 



59. Holocenthrus albo-ruber (Lac^pede). 



SCOMBRID^. 



60. Scomber kanagurta Riippell. Plate XII, upper figure. 



61. Germo germon (Lacepede). Plate VIII, lower figure. 



62. ScoMBEROMORUS GUTTATUs (Schiieider) . 



TRICHIURID.<E. ' 



63. Trichiurus haumela (Forskal). Plate Vll, lower figure. 



CARANGID.^. 



64. ScoMBEROiDES TOLOO (Cuvier). 



65. ScoMBEKOiDES TOL (Cuvier). 



66. Megalaspis rottleri (Bloch). 



67. Seriola cretata sp. nov. Plate XI, lower figure. 



Head 3|; depth 34; D. V— n, 32; A. I— ii, 16; P. ii, 17; V. I, 5 ; scales 

 about 156 to base of caudal ; width of head 1-i in its length ; depth of head 1^ ; 

 mandible 1^ ; third dorsal spine 4|- ; first developed dorsal ray If ; last of ; first 

 anal ray 2-i; last 4 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 5|-; pectoral 1-|; ventral 1|-; 

 snout o|-, from tip of upper jaw; eye 4^; maxillary 2-1- ; interorbital space 2li; 

 base of soft dorsal 2|- in body ; base of anal 5^. 



Body oblong, compressed, and greatest depth about opposite origin of soft 

 dorsal. Caudal peduncle small, broad, flattened above and below, with a pit at 

 origin of each lobe. Least depth a little less than least width. 



Head deep, compressed, upper profile evenly and more convex than lower. 

 Snout blunt, broad, convex, and with upper jaw projecting. Eye moderate, pos- 

 terior margin of pupil midway between tip of mandible and gill-oj^ening. Ej^elid 

 narrow. Mouth large, slightly inclined and curved, and mandible projecting beyond 

 upper jaw. Maxillary moves in a rounded depression, slips under greater part of 

 narrow preorbital, and reaches opposite middle of eye. Preorbital not quite as 

 wide as distal expanded extremity of maxillary, which is about two and one-quarter 

 in orbit. Teeth small, sharp pointed, and in rather broad bands in jaws. Vomer 

 and palatines with patches of smaller pointed teeth. Tongue bi'oad, short, blunt, 

 a little free in front, and with two patches of minute teeth. Lower lip rather thin. 



' Act. Soc. Sci. lud. Neerl. (Neg. Bijd. Viscli. Amb.), Ill, 1857, p. 2. Amboiiia in niari. 

 (M. D. S. Holdt.) 



