270 SEALE. 



Color dull yellowish, some small dusky dots on sides of head and chin. 

 Nos. 2439 and 2894; leng-th 100 to 116 millimeters. 



Used for food in Borneo ; not yet recorded from the Philippines. 



Family SC0MBEIDJ5. Mackerels. 

 Rastrelliger brachysomus (Bleeker). 



Color dull bluisli-gray above, silvery with a yellowish wash below; 

 posterior margin of dorsal dusky, fins otherwise uniform; round dusky 

 spots at base of dorsal. Nos. 2648, 2649 and 2695; length 190 to 200 

 millimeters. 



This species is easily distinguished by its great depth (3 in length), 

 its long gill ralvers which project into the mouth maJdng it look "as if 

 full of feathers." Scales below base of pectorals slightly the largest. 

 This species is well described by Jordan and Dickerson.' 



A common food-fish of Borneo; also found in the Philippines. 



Lactarius lactarius (Bloeli and Schneider). 



Head 2.85; depth equal to head; eye 3.30 in head; dorsal VIII-I, 24; 

 anal III, 26 ; scales about 60 ; a row of small teeth in jaws with two or 

 three enlarged canines. Teeth on vomer and palatine. 



Color silvery, a very distinct opercular spot. Dorsals grayish at tips. 

 No. 2610; length, 100 millimeters. 



Family CAEANGID^F]. Pampanos. 

 Caranx speciosus (Forskai). 



This species is easily lecognized by its yellow color, with the alternating 

 wide and naiTOw black bands over the body, the anterior one being 

 through the eye; the distinctness of these stripes seems to vary a great 

 deal, but they are never entirely absent. I have seen very old specimens 

 of 400 millimeters in length with the markings very distinct.. ISTos. 2458, 

 2465, and 2630; length, 85 to 250 milHmeters. 



Caranx sexfascratus (Quoy and Gaimard). 



Carangus rhabdotus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Bu. Fisheries (1903), 23, pi. 1. 193. 

 Caranx semisomnus Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (1904), 12, 2d. 

 ser. 510, pi. 16. 



Head 3.10; depth at origin of anal 2.55; eye 3.75 in head; snout 3.50; 

 interorbital space 3.40; dorsal VIII-I, 21; anal II-I, 17; scales about 52 

 in curved portions of lateral line, and 30 scutes in the straight portion ; the 

 line becomes straight under the second soft ray of dorsal, the curved por- 



^ Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. (1908), 34, 603. 



