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reaching to above the 5th or 6th anal ray. Ventral small and rounded, 2*66 to 
3-2 in the length of the pectoral and 9-2 to 10*1 in that of the body; 2nd ray 
longest, reaching the vent. 
Gill-rakers long and slender, 8 to 6 + 28 to 30 on the anterior arch, the 
longest 1-2 in the gill-fringes and 5-5 in the length of the head. Vent one half 
nearer to the origin of the ventrals tlian to the anal. 
Blue a])ove, shading into bronze on the upper side, the lower side and 
breast silvery. Upper surface of head, snout, and tip of mandible bronze; a 
large blaekisli shoulder-spot, encroaching well on the upper edge of the opercle; 
sides and lower surface of head, a blotch on the throat, and the bases of the 
pectoral, ventral, and anal tins washed with dull gold. Fins hyaline, except the 
anterior dorsal spines and the outer ray and tip of the upper caudal lobe, Avhich 
are blackish. the Tamil name for (his species.)^ 
Described from three s])ecimens, measuring respectively 152, 160, and 
176 millim., trawled off the Coast of ^Middle Qiieensland during the Avinter of 
1910. The largest and smallest are in the Queensland IMuseum, the other in that 
of our Amateur Fishermen ^s Association, by Avhom it Avas kindly lent at our 
request. We luiA^e also examined the type of Microptenjx (jueenslandice de Vis, 
Avliich is certainly this s])eeies. 
Vernacular name : — There being no trivial name, local or otherwise, for 
this trevally, Ave have been obliged to coin the above, which Avas suggested by its 
extraordinary resemblance in general form to some of our species of Sardinella. 
Ilisforical : — The earliest notice of tliis singular carangid Avill be found 
in the Kistoire Naturelle des Poissons,'' in Avhich Valenciennes describes it 
from Pondicherry, a French settlement on the Coromandel Coast of India, 
Avhere it Avas knoAvn ])y the Tamil name of kalla pared’ or kalla parah " as 
Day prefers to write it. Valenciennes also declares that he had seen specimens 
sent from Mahe on the .Alaiabar Coast by Beleuger and Dussumier, as well as 
others in the Geoffroyau collection from the Red Sea ; it is, however, strange, if the 
latter locality be correct, that it should have so entirely escaped the notice of such 
keen obsei'vers as Rup]Kdl, Klunzinger, Kossmann, and other historians of that 
Avell explored area. lie also mentions incidentally that Bloch's collection con- 
tained an example Avithout locality, Avhich Avas labelled Scomber himaculatus, 
but of Avhieli no description seems to liave been published. In 1851 Bleeker 
described as ucav from Batavia a closely allied species, to AAdiich he gave the 
name Selar brevis^ and Avhich is said to differ fron S. kalla principally in having 
the dorsal and ventral coni ours symmetrical and the curve of the lateral line 
shorter, terminating below instead of weW behind the origin of the soft dorsal. 
Giinther in 1860 accepted this species as valid, but Day, sixteen years later, 
challenged its validity, referring it as a synonym to S. kalla. Apparently, how- 
ever, Jordan, Richardson, and Seale, having examined specimens of both forms 
from the Philippines, have couAunced themselves of their specific value, and we, 
® McCulloch {vi lit.) remarks — few specimens retain traces of about six vertical bars 
from the back downwards. 
