270 SEALE. 



C'oldi- dull 3'elJow'ish^ some small dusky dots on sides of head and chin. 

 Xos. 24:i!i and •.>S!I4 ; length loO to 116 millimeters. 



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



Family S('():\li:il(lI).E. :\laekerels. 



Rastrelliger brachysomus (Bleeker). 



Color dull blnish-gray above, silvery witli a yellowish wash below; 

 posterior margin of dorsal dusky, iins otliei'wise uniform; round dusky 

 spots at base of dorsal. Xos. '.'(MS, Vd W and -.'(I!)."); length 190 to 200 

 millimeters. 



This species is easily distinguished by its gi-cat depth (3 in length), 

 its long gill rakers which project into the moulli maldng it look "as if 

 full of feathers." Scales behn>i- base of jiectorals slightly the largest. 

 This s])ecies is well described by Joi'dan and Dickerson.^ 



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



Lactarius lactarius (Bloch and Schneider). 



Head 2.8."); depth eijual to head; eye 3.30 in head; dorsal \'ni-I, 24; 

 anal III, 2(i ; scales about 60; a row of small teeth in jaws with two or 

 three enlarged canines. ^JV-eth on \'oiiier and palatine. 



Color silvery, a very distinct opercular spot. r)orsals grayish at tii)S. 

 Xo. 2610; length, 100 millimeters. 



Family CAIi.^XCID.F. Pampanos. 



Caranx speciosus (ForskM). 



This sjjccies is easily lecognized by its vellow color, with the alternating 

 wide and nan-n^- black bands o\er the body, the anterior one being 

 through the eye; the distinctness of th(>se strijies >eenis to vary a great 

 deal, but tliey are ne\cr entirely absent. I have seen \'ery old specimens 

 of 400 millimeters in length with the markings very distinct. Xos. 24.')S. 

 24(i."), and 2630; length. 8.5 to 2.50 millimeters. 



Caranx sexfasciatus (Quoy and tTainiard). 



Caranfiii.i rhabdotufi .Tenl<ins, Bull. U. S. Bu. Fisheries (1903), 23, pi. 1, in,3. 

 Cni-diij- seminoiiiiiiix Fowler, .Tonrn. ,-\cad. Nat. Soi. Philad. (1904), 12, 2d. 

 ser. 510, pi. 16. 



Head 3.10; depth at origin of anal 2. .15 ; eye 3.75 in head; snout 3.50 ; 

 intororbital space 3.40; dorsal \'III-I, 21 ; anal II-l, 17 ; scales about 52 

 in cur\ed portions oi^ lateral line, and 30 scutes in the straight portion; the 

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



' P7-0C. U. jS'. Kat. MtiH. (1908), 34, 603. 



