EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 
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and we, therefore, give the following key to enable observers to distinguish them 
when captured, in the hope that they will forward specimens to the Queensland 
Museum. 
Lateral line with less than 30 scutes, the straight section only partly armed. 
Upper jaw with a series of small teeth . . . . . . - . • • - • 'inuroadsi. 
1)^. Upper jaw toothless . . . . . . . . . ■ - ■ • • - • leptosomus.- 
or. Lateral line with 35 scutes or more, the straight section armed throughout . . russeUii. 
DECAPTERUS RUSSELLII (Ruppell). 
Kurra Wodaffaivali Eussell, Uish. Yiyagapatam, ii, 1803, p. 30, pi. cxxxix. 
Caronx. riisselUi Ruppell, Atlas Fisch. Koth. Mcer., 1828, p. 99; Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
London, 1887, p. 660. 
Caranx hurra Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. 'Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 44 (af ter Eussell) ; Jerdon,. 
Madras Journ. Lit. & ScL, 1851, p. 137; Gunther, Brit. Mus. Catai. Fish., ii, 1860, p. 427; 
Bay, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 24; id., Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 81; Klunzinger, Verh.- 
zool.-bot. Gcs. Wien, 1871, p. 453; Bay, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 214, pi. xlviii, fig. 5. 
Caranx ps&udopierygius Bleeker, Journ. Ind. Arch., iii, 1849, p. 71. 
Decapterus hurra Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., i, 1851, p. 358; id,, ibid., ii, 1851, p. 213; 
id., Verb. Batav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Makreel., p. 50; id., ibid., xxv, 1853, Bengal, p. 44; 
id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., viii, 1855, p. 203; id., Act. Soe. Sci. Indo-Neerb, viii, I860,. 
Celebes, p. 39; Jordan & Richardson, Check-List. Fish. Philipp. Archip., 1910, p. 19. 
Caranx eccUpsifcr de A^is, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. AVales, ix, pt. 3, 29 Nov., 1884, p. 541. 
Decapterus russclli Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiii, 1901, p. 352; Steindachner,, 
Bonk. Akad. Wien, Ixxi, 1902, p. 20; Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxxi, 1907, p. 465.. 
Decapterus ? ccclipsifcr Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens!., xxiii, 1911, p. 9. 
Decapterus russeUii Ogilby, Mem. Queensl. Mus., ii, 1914, p. 90. 
RUSSELL’S MACKEREL-SCAB. 
(Plate XIX.) 
Type localities : — Red Sea at El Tor {C. russeUii). 
Vizagapatam (C. kurra). 
Celebes (C. pseiidopterygius) . 
Cape A^ork, N.Q. (0. ecclipsifer) . 
Body eloTigate-elliptical and sul)fusiform, tlie dorsal and ventral contours 
symmetrical, it-s width 1*3 to l*b in its depth, which is 4*45 to 4*9 in its length 
and 1*3 to 1-45 in the length of the head ; abdominal region long, 1-2 in the length 
of the anal, including the free ray; caudal peduncle about one eightli wider 
than deep, its width 1-67 in the eye-diameter. Head bluntly trigonal, its upper 
profile feebly convex and gently acclivous, its length 3*35 to 3*45 in that of 
the body, its width 1-2 to 1-3 in its depth, which is 1*55 to 1-7 in its length ; cranio- 
nuchal keel moderately developed. Bye large, with a well developed adipose 
lid, which overlaps the pupil both in front and behind, its diameter 3-65 to 
