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 9^ inches. 



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



One example. This species is closel}- 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. 



{Aurezis, golden ; ruber, red.) 



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



SCOMBRID.E. 



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



61. Ger.mo germon (Lac^pSde). Plate VIII, lower figure. 



62. ScoMBEROMORUs GUTTATUS (Schneider). 



TRICHIURID.E. 



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



CARANGID^. 



64. ScOMBEROiDEs TOLOo (Cuvier). 



65. Scomberoides tol (Cuvier). 



66. Megalaspis ro-ttleri (Bloch). 



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



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

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

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

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

 snout o-L, from tip of upper jaw; eye 4-jL; maxillary 2-1- ; interorbital space 2fi; 

 base of soft dorsal 2-2- 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-opening. Eyelid 

 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 oppo>site 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 broad, short, blunt, 

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



> Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerl. (Neg. Bijd. Visch. Amb.), Ill, 1857, p. 2. Amboina in mari. 

 (M. D. S. Holdt.) 



