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Color in life, bright red; side with about 8 yellow longitudinal bands; spinous dorsal vermilion 
tinged with yellow; soft dorsal rosy with front margin white and behind this above, red; anal whitish 
with red between third spine and first ray; caudal red, margined above, and along the emargination 
with whitish; pectoral whitish with red lines; ventral rosy with front margin white. 
Another example (field No. 03454), in life had yellow and red longitudinal bands above and yel- 
low and white below; spinous dorsal vermilion, other fins red with white borders. Another (field 
No. 03472), was brilliant scarlet red with 11 golden streaks along rows of scales, upper 4 broadest, and 
third and fourth most distinct and oblique; a white or golden streak across cheek; fins plain scarlet 
without dark patches. Color, when fresh, of another specimen (field No. 03494), bright red verging to 
scarlet; side red, with 4 golden stripes along back and 6 silver stripes below these, golden and silver, 
very bright; head crimson; a white band on cheek; spinous dorsal deep scarlet with crimson edge; 
soft dorsal light crimson with a white, then a dark crimson edge; caudal blood red, edged above and 
below with white, posterior part of fin abruptly pale; anal with pale spines, then blood red, then 
pinkish; ventral with white spine, then dark red, then pink; pectoral light red, axil deep red. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown or brownish white, the longitudinal bands on sides, together with 
scales on cheeks and opercle, silvery; fins pale. 
This species was obtained by us at Honolulu and Kailua, and appears to be common at the former 
place. The collections contain the following specimens: 
Field 
No. 
Length, 
Locality. 
Final disposition of specimen. 
Field 
No. 
Length. 
Locality. 
Final disposition of speci- 
men. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
03448 
6 
Honolulu. 
Type, No. 50637, IT. S. N. M. 
01951 
9.5 
Honolulu. 
Cotvpe, No. 24216, Ac. 
03472 
6 
Kailua ... 
Cotype, No. 7458, L. S. Jr. 
Nat. Sci. Phila. 
Univ. Mus. 
03454 
9. 75 
do.... 
Cotvpe, No. 9806, Ind. 
04929 
8. 75 
Honolulu. 
Cotype, No. 2708, U. S. F. C. 
Univ. Mus. 
04930 
8.5 
do.... 
Cotvpe, No. 1693, Bishop Mus. 
03494 
8.5 
do.... 
Cotype, No. 3952, Field 
04931 
8 
do 
Cotype, No. , M. C. Z. 
Col. Mus. 
04950 
8.75 
do — 
Cotype, No. 2287, Am. Mus. 
Nat. Hist. 
Family CARANGID7E. The Pampanos. 
20. Carangus elacate Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 3.6 in length; depth 3.4: eye 4.5 in head; snout 3.8; interorbital 3.8 in snout; maxillary 2.1; 
preorbital 8.5; mandible 1.9; D. vii-i, 19; A. ii-i, 16; scutes 28. 
Body slender, compressed, not greatly elevated; snout rather short, profile ascending to nape in a 
gentle curve, slightly trenchant; mouth large, slightly oblique; lower jaw somewhat projecting; max- 
illary reaching posterior edge of orbit, its width at tip 1.5 in orbit; supplemental maxillary well 
developed, its width 3.25 in entire width; gape reaching vertical of posterior edge of pupil; villiform 
teeth on vomer, palatines and tongue, those on jaws in a single row, small and somewhat canine-like; 
eye large, anterior; adipose eyelid strongly developed behind; supraocular region with two ridges, 
extending to humeral region, the lower the stronger; posterior half of body, beginning at origin of 
soft dorsal, long and gently tapering to caudal peduncle; caudal peduncle much depressed, its least 
depth scarcely half its least width; distance from base of last dorsal ray to origin of caudal fin equal 
to snout and pupil; fins small; origin of spinous dorsal posterior to base of pectoral by a distance 
equal to eye; longest dorsal spine slightly greater than snout; anterior rays of soft dorsal somewhat 
produced, about 1.8 in head; anal similar to soft dorsal, its origin under eighth soft dorsal ray, anterior 
ray produced, but scarcely equaling longest soft dorsal rays; caudal widely forked, lobes apparently 
equal; pectoral long and falcate, reaching past origin of anal, exceeding head in length by 0.65 diameter 
of eye; ventrals short, 2.4 in head; scales rather large, a low sheath at base of soft dorsal and anal 
anteriorly; breast entirely scaled; lateral line strongly arched above pectoral, joining straight portion 
under sixth dorsal ray, chord of arched portion 1.6 in straight part. 
Color in alcohol, rusty olivaceous above, paler on side below lateral line, belly white; top of head 
dark olive, side and lower jaw lighter, with strong brassy tinge on postocular and on lower portions 
of opercle; lower jaw profusely covered with fine brown points; a black spot at upper end of opercular 
opening; axil black; vertical fins all more or less dark; produced part of soft dorsal almost black, low 
F. C. B. 1902—12 
