1 849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1113 



Brama melampus,) is nothing but Caranx nigripes. Mutilation of the 

 delicate filaments of C. atropus would indeed render it indistinguish- 

 able from C. nigripes. A single individual of the present was 

 observed at Pinang in June, 1844, and it remains to be ascertained if 

 the elongation of some of the dorsal rays is more than an individual 

 distinction. Dr. Riippell obtained in the Red Sea a specimen of his 

 Citula ciliaria (Syn. Olistus ? rupellii, Cuv. and Val.) which had the 

 middle rays of both the second dorsal and of the anal fin elongated 

 filamentous, and he therefore thinks it possible that the fish is iden- 

 tical with Olistus malabaricus, Cuv. and Val. (Neue Wirbelth. Fische : 

 p. 50). 



Caranx armattjs, (Ruppeli.) 



Scisena armata, Forskal, Fauna Arab. p. 53, No. 68 ? 



Scisena armata, Linne, Syst. 1306 ? 



Russell, CLI. Tchawil Parah. (Young.) 



Citula armata, Ruppeli : Atlas, 103. 



Caranx citula (cirrhosus, Ehrenb.) Cuv. and Val. IX. 126, PI. 250. 



Caranx armatus, Cuv. and Val. IX. 127. 



Caranx ciliaris, Cuv. and Val. IX. 129. (Young.) 



Citula armata, (Syn. Caranx cirrhosus,) Ruppeli, Neue Wirb. Fis- 

 che 50, 



Caranx ciliaris, Temm. et. Schl. Fauna Japon. Pise. 1 12. 



Caranx ciliaris, Richardson, Report, 1845, 276. 



Young. Head above and back pale sea green or bluish green ; sides of 

 the head and of the body beneath the lateral line mother-of-pearl 

 with pale rose coloured reflections ; abdomen white ; an indistinct 

 black spot at the upper part of the opercle ; first dorsal hyaline 

 minutely dotted with black ; second dorsal yellowish white, the elongat- 

 ed point and the upper margin minutely dotted with black ; caudal 

 yellowish white, marginal ""half minutely dotted with black ; anal and 

 pectorals white ; base and anterior margin of the ventrals white, rest 

 pale greenish grey, minutely dotted with brown. Iris silvery, upper 

 orbital half greenish black. 



D 8—1/21, C 17| A 2—1/16 or 17, V 1/5, P 19, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang t Singapore. 



Seas of China and Japan, New Guinea, Java, Coromandel, 

 Red Sea, Indian Ocean. 



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