198 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Caranx spcciosus, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 72, 1802; Jordan & Evermann, Amer. Food and Game Fishes, 308, 1902; 
Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 417 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan 19, 1904), 525 
(Honolulu). 
Caranx pctaurista Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, Descript. Egypte, pi. 23, fig. 1, 1809. 
Caranx poloosoo Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Iehth., pi. 58, figs. 4 and 5, 1844 (called Caranx speciosus in the text, 
13G), Australia. 
Gnathanodon speciosus, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 1851, 72; Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North & Mid. Amer., I, 928, 
1890. 
Caranx ruppellii Gunther, Cat., II, 445, 1860, Red Sea. 
Caranx panamenns Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 166, Panama (Coll. Captain Dow). 
Caranx ( Hypocaranx ) speciosus, IClunzinger, Fische des rothen Meeres, I, 96, 1884 (Red Sea); Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. 
Wien, LXX, 1900, 495 (Pearl Harbor, Oahu). 
Genus 114. CARANGOIDES Bleeker. 
Teeth persistent, all small, in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue; lateral line 
scarcely arched in front; body oblong, not much elevated; otherwise essentially as in Caranx. 
Tropical seas. 
Carangoides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 27, 59, 1852 ( plagiotxnia ; teeth equal, several series in both jaws and on 
palate and tongue). 
a. Anal with numerous rays, 25 or 26. 
b. Scutes about 30 ferdau, p. 198 
bb. Scutes about 25 gymnostcthoid.es, p. 199 
aa. Anal with fewer rays, about 16 ajax, p. 200 
152. Carangoides ferdau (Forskal). “ Omilu.” Fig. 77. 
Head 3.6 in length; depth 2.7; eye 4.5 in head; snout 3; interorbital 3; maxillary 2.5; D. vi-i, 29; 
A. ii— i, 25; scutes about 30. 
Body elongate, elliptical, compressed, dorsal outline evenly arched, steep from above eye to tip of 
snout; head as deep as long; snout short, blunt, depressed in front of eye, steep anteriorly; mouth 
Fig. 77. — Carangoides ferdau (Forskal). 
moderate, slightly oblique; teeth small, villiform on vomer, palatines, tongue, and jaws, those in jaws 
the larger and arranged in bands; tongue rounded, thin, and free for the most of its length; maxillary 
rather broad, its greatest width 2 in eye, extending to anterior edge of pupil; eye anterior, slightly 
