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57. Decapterus macrosomus Bleekpi. 



Twelve specimens from Bulan (No. 3345, 33-17 to 3349, 33.51, 3.5L'1 , 3.522, 3.521, and 3,531 (,„ 3.531; jongtli 

 5.75 to 8 in.) and one from Bacon (no. 4146; lougtli in.). 



Depth 5.5; head 3.75; ahout 59 plates or .scales in straight portion of lateral line; origin of ventrals nearer 

 to tip of snout than to anal. This fish is more elongate and has smaller plates than has D. hura, and the distance 

 between tips of ventrals and origin of anal is 1.5 in head, while in D. hurra it is much less, being about 2.5. 



Decapterus macrosoma Bleokor, Nat. Tijds. NoJ. Ind., i, :f;-,.s, 18.50, Batavia. 

 Caranx macrosoma, Oiinther, Cat., ii, 425. 



58. Decapterus kurra Bleeker. 



Six specimens from Bulan (no. 3350, 3346, 3911, 3913, 3914, and 3523; length 4 to 6 in.) 

 Head 3 in length; depth 4.5; plates 40; distance between tips of ventrals and origin of anal short, about 

 2.5 in head; origin of ventrals nearer origin of anal than to tip of snout. 



Decapterus ktirra Bleeker, Makrcelachtige Visschen, 50, Vorh. Bat. Gen., xxiv, 1862, Batavia. 

 Caranx kurra, Gunther, Cat., ll, 427; Day, Fishes India, 214, pi. Lxvni, fig. 5. ' ' 



59. Seriola nigrofasciata (Ruppell). 



One specimen from Bulan (no. 3602; length 6.2 in.) 



Xomeus nigrofasciatus Ruppell, Atlas, Fische, 92, pi. 24, flg. 2, 1828, Red Sea. 

 Seriola nigrofasciata, Gunther, Cat., ll, 465. 



60. Lactarius lactarius (Bloch & Schneider). Bog-snag-taen. 



Three fine specimens from San Fabian (no. 3274, 3754, and 3755; length 6.25 to 9.2 in.). 

 Head 3 in length; depth 2.8; eye 3.85 in head; snout 4.5; maxillary 2.1, its distal end under posterior 

 margin of pupil; base of anal fin 2.75 in length. 



Scomber lactarius Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 31, 1801, Tranquebar. 

 Lactarius delicatulus, Giinther, Cat., ii, 507. 



61. Caranx boops Cuvier & Valenciennes. Atoloy. 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3724, 3807, 40.53, 40.54, -IIIS4, 4085, 4086, 4102, and 4103; length 7 

 to 8.25 in.). 



Head 3.45 in length; depth 3.1 ; plates of lateral line 44, the line strongly bent, becoming straight under 

 the posterior third of first dorsal, the plates vciy large; eye 2.75 in head; adipose eyelid w<'ll developed; max- 

 illary 2.1 in head. 



In this species the ventrals fall far short of anal spines, the origin of the spines being midway between 

 origin of ventrals and base of ninth anal ray; under jaw strongly projecting. 



Caranx boops Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Foiss., ix, 35 (46), Amboyna; Giinther, Cut., ii, 431; Day, Fishes India, 218, 

 pi. XLIX, flg. 2. 



62. Caranx freeri Evermann & Scale, new species. Matauii. 



Head 3.1 in length; depth 3.2; eye 2.85 in head; interorbital 3.55; dorsal viir— i, 23; anal ii— i, 20; 

 lateral line of 25 scales and 47 plates; a broad adipose eyelid. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 6.1 in head, its depth less than its width; 

 profile of head from above opercle to snout almost a straight line placed at angle of 35 degrees; mouth large, 

 the lower jaw scarcely projecting; length of maxillary 2.1 in head, its distal end under middle of pupil, the 

 posterior margin concave; mandible 1.75 in head; minute teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue, those of 

 jaws in single series; gillrakers long and slim, 24 on lower limb, the longest 5.9 in head; opercle and preopercle 

 entire; body entirely scaled; breast scaled; plates of lateral line very strong, their greatest diameter 4.5 in 

 head; the lateral line with a low curve anteriorly, becoming straight under the posterior dorsal spines, the 

 curved portion 3.2 in straight; scales of the arrow-shaped area in front of dorsal \ery minute; about 6 rows on 

 cheek; origin of spinous dorsal in vertical line with axil of ventrals, the longest spine 2 in head, longest ray of 

 soft dorsal 2.5; origin of anal under second soft dorsal ray, being midway between base of caudal and posterior 

 margin of orbit, its longest ray 2.55 in head; origin of anterior anal spine midway between origin of ventral and 

 base of seventh anal ray; first anal spine 6.5 in head; ventrals midway between origin of anal and posterior end 



