CAEANGID^E. 157 



on vomer, a narrow one on palatines, also along centre of tongue. 

 Fins dorsal spines weak, third and fourth longest, | to f- height of 

 body and rather more than the rays at commencement of soft 

 dorsal, of which the last ray is thickened and slightly prolonged. 

 Pectoral T 4 g length of body, not so long as head. Caudal rather 

 deeply forked. Scales on body, chest, and cheeks. Lateral line 

 88 scales ; a very long, low arched portion running into the 

 straight part below the tenth dorsal ray, but keeled scales do not 

 commence until under the middle of the second dorsal, becoming 

 strongest under its termination, where they are to -^ the height of 

 the body, in the arched portion of the lateral line they are rounded 

 and plate-like. Colour silvery, becoming golden below ; usually 

 no opercular spoc, but it is present in some specimens from 

 Madras, fins golden, with fine dots. Caudal tipped with black. 

 Hob. Red Sea, seas of India, Indo-Pacific and tropical Atlantic ; 

 attaining at least 12 inches in length. 



918. (11.) Caranxboops. 



Caranx boops, Cuv. Sf Val. H. N. Poiss. ix, p. 46; Dai/, Fish. India, 

 p. 218, pi. xlix ; fig. 2 (see synon.). 



D. 8 i 1/24-25. P. 19. A. 2 \ 1/2021. C. 17. Sc. 1. 46. 



Length of head 3| to 4, height of body 4 in the total length. 

 Eyes with a broad posterior adipose lid and a narrower anterior 

 one, diameter 2| to 3 in length of head, | to 1 diam. from end of 

 snout and rather less apart. Snoufc pointed ; lower jaw rather the 

 longer; posterior extremity of maxilla reaches to below centre of 

 orbit; iuterorbital space nearly flat; preorbital narrow, its height 

 in its deepest part equals $ ta of that of the orbit. Dorsal 

 and abdominal profiles equally convex. Lower edge of pre-, sub-, 

 and interopercles roughened. Teeth in a narrow band or single 

 row on both jaws ; in a A-shaped patch on the vomer, in a band 

 on the palate and also on the tongue. Fins dorsal spines weak, 

 third and fourth longest, rather more than half height of body at 

 commencement of second dorsal fin; anterior portion of second 

 dorsal rather the highest, but a little lower than the longest dorsal 

 spines. Pectoral not quite so long as the head; anal similar to 

 but rather lower than soft dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Scales 

 over body, chest, cheeks, and upper jaw ; a very low sheath on 

 bases of soft dorsal and anal fins. Lateral line 69 scales, forming 

 a rather strong curve anteriorly and becoming straight below the 

 sixth dorsal spine, where the plates immediately begin to be 

 developed ; they are large and | the height of the body in their 

 broadest part. Colour- silvery, darkest along the back, and shot 

 with gold along the abdomen ; a small but well-developed opercular 

 spot ; dorsal and caudal fins with dark spots. 



Hob. Audamaus to the Malay Archipelago. 



