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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
opercle scaled, rest of head naked; breast scaled; lateral line strongly arched above the pectoral, the 
arch joining the straight portion under fifth dorsal ray, the chord of the arch equaling length of head 
or 1.5 in straight portion; scutes rather strong, the largest 0.65 diameter of eye in width. 
Color in alcohol, bright silvery, darker above, with 5 indistinct vertical bands nearly as wide as 
eye on upper three-fourths of body, a sixth band less distinct on caudal peduncle; no opercular spot; 
fins plain, except the elevated portions of soft dorsal and anal, which are tipped with black. 
This description is based upon the type (No. 50711, U. S. N. M. ), a specimen 5.5 inches long, 
obtained at Honolulu by the Albatross in 1896. Another small example was obtained at the same 
time. This species was not seen by us at Honolulu. It resembles a species found in the estuaries of 
Samoa. 
? Caranx sexfasciatus Quay & Gaimard, Zool. Voy. Uranie, 358, pi. 65, fig. 4, 1824, Papous Islands. 
Carangus rlmbdoius Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 444, fig. 16, Honolulu. 
147. Carangus politus Jenkins. “ Maka;” ' “ Makaa.” Fig. 75. 
Head 4 in length; depth 3; eye 4.1 in head; snout 3.5; interorbital 3.2; maxillary 3; I!, viii-i, 
24; A. ii— i, 19; scutes 40. 
Body oblong, compressed, dorsal and ventral outline about equal; head subconic, longer than 
deep, compressed; snout bluntly pointed; lower jaw produced; small villiform teeth on vomer, 
palatines, and tongue, a single row of small canine-like teeth in each jaw, those in lower jaw almost 
obsolete; maxillary short, rather narrow, reaching anterior margin of eye; eye slightly above axis of 
body, anterior; interorbital moderately trenchant; fins moderate, longest dorsal spine 2 in head; 
caudal forked, lobes not greatly produced; anal similar to soft dorsal; ventral's reaching just past vent, 
2.3 in head; pectoral long and falcate, tip not quite reaching to straight portion of lateral line, 
slightly longer than head, not quite equal to base of anal; arch of lateral line rather long, reaching to 
below eighth dorsal ray, and about equal to straight part; scutes on entire straight portion of lateral 
line. 
Color in alcohol, grayish olivaceous above, lighter below, becoming white on lower sides and 
belly; 9 indistinct vertical dark bands on upper two-thirds of scales of body; fins all dusky; opercular 
'spot present. 
