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surface whitish burnished with pale reflections of purphsh,. 

 metalHc greenish, or brassy. Head a trifle hyaHne brownish 

 above and Hps translucent. Spinous dorsal dusky, spines bur- 

 nished slightly with silvery. Rayed dorsal and caudal pale 

 brownish, becoming dusky marginally, and tips of all three lobes 

 blackish. Each caudal lobe submarginally with deep gamboge- 

 golden tints. Pectoral, ventral and anal pale or dull brownish. 

 A pale plumbeous-dusky blotch on opercle. Iris pale metallic 

 brownish. A well-known and abundant food-fish on our coast 

 about I foot in length. 



Carangiis chrysos Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 813. 



Caranx chrysos Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII., 1892, p. 361. 



Caranx latus Agassiz. 

 Plate 28. 



Jurel. 



Head 2Ys ; depth 2^ ; D. I, VII-I, 21 ; A. II-I, 18; snout 3>< 

 in head measured from tip of upper jaw ; eye 3 J^ ; maxillary 2}i ; 

 interorbital space 3% ; second erect dorsal spine 2% ; first dorsal 

 ray about 2% ; first anal ray about 2^/7; lower caudal lobe 1^/4 ; 

 pectoral ly^ ; ventral 2j^ ; about 24 denticulate scutes in straight 

 portion of lateral line to base of caudal. Body deep, compressed, 

 deepest at origins of rayed dorsal and anal. Head rather deep, 

 compressed, and upper profile obliquely convex. Snout short- 

 Eye circular, anterior. Mouth oblique, mandible apparently pro- 

 jecting a little. Maxillary reaching front rim of pupil. Canine 

 teeth in front of jaws but little enlarged. Interorbital space con- 

 vex. Gill-rakers about 5 + 15, long, slender, about 2 in orbit. 

 Breast scaly. Curved part of lateral line about i}i in straight 

 part. Spinous dorsal inserted behind origin of pectoral, and 

 .second erect spine longest, others graduated down. Rayed dor- 

 sal inserted nearly midway between posterior margin of pupil 

 and base of caudal, anteriorly elevated from fi.rst ray which is 

 longest. Rayed anal similar, inserted a little more posterior. 

 Caudal forked, lobes pointed. Pectoral extending till nearly 

 opposite base of third anal spine. Ventrals inserted a trifle be- 



