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with a spine ; two dorsal fins ; a horizontal immoveable spine in front 

 of the anterior dorsal ; two free spines in front of the anal ; body, the 

 lateral line excepted, covered with small scales ; crest of cranium tren- 

 chant ; last rays of second dorsal often slightly connected ; in some 

 separated in spurious fins. 



j_ % — With several spurious fins behind the second do?*sal and anal. 

 Caranx rottleri, (Bloch.) 



Scomber cordyla, Linne, Syst. 1332 ? 



Scomber rottleri, Bloch, Tab. 346. 



Russell, CXLIII. Woragoo. 



Scomber rottleri, Shaw, IV. 598. 



Caranx rottleri, (Lacep.) Riippell: Atlas, 102. 



Caranx rotleri, Cuv. R. A. II. 208 (') 



Caranx rotleri, Cuv. and Val. IX. 29. 



Caranx rotleri, Riippell, N. W. Fische, 48, 52. 



Caranx rotleri, Richardson, Report, 1845, 273. 



Head above and back steel blue or silvery dark green, lighter on the 

 sides towards the lateral line ; the latter as well as the rest of the body 

 shining silvery ; on the upper part of opercle a bluish black spot ; fins 

 transparent, yellowish ; point of the second dorsal, and margin of the 

 caudal minutely dotted with black. Iris silvery ; adipose fold of the 

 orbit pale amber- coloured. 



D 8—1/10 or 11— IX, C I7i, A 2— 1/3— VIII or VII, V 1/5, P 22. 



Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 



Coromandel, Malabar, Massaua, (Red Sea,) China Seas. 



Total length : 7 inch. 



The length of the head is } of the body, the caudal not included ; 

 the greatest vertical diameter, in front of the second dorsal fin, is 3£ in 

 the length of the body. The diameter of the orbit is a little less than 

 ^ of the length of the head ; the broad adipose fold of the orbit leaves 

 a vertically oval space, in which the eye appears. The anterior part of 

 the lateral line is formed by very small rounded scales and describes a 

 short high arch, which terminates opposite the middle of the anterior 

 dorsal fin ; the rest of the line is straight, consisting of 53 to 55 oblique, 

 keeled and spinous plates. The anterior of the latter are narrow ; 

 each nearly \ of the vertical diameter of the body ; the posterior ones 



