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■owing to the greater flatness of the latter, the occipito-nuehal profile is constantly 
gibbous at all ages, and the dorsal fin is uniform in coloration ; in A. ciliaris the 
■dorsal contour is about as high as the ventral at all ages, the entire dorsal profile 
from the snout to the dorsal fin is evenly rounded in the adult, and the filiform 
dorsal rays are basally black. 
Snyder remarks — AA^hen compared with examples of A. major from 
Formosa, specimens of this species (i.e. A. ciliaris) may be recognised at a 
glance by the heavier body, smaller head which is much broader between the eyes, 
and the darker dorsal surface with the distinct curved lateral bands.” The 
mention of lateral bands proves that Snyder had young examples only on which 
to base liis conclusions, a fact which materially diminishes their value, and indeed 
while my investigations tend to show that all four are worthless as differential 
characters, two at least, the first and the last, are actually misleading, 
A\Tth regard to the third species, A. alexandrina^ from the Mediterranean 
mid Troiiical AA^est Africa, the main differences between it and A. indica, to which 
it is more closety allied, seem to be the increased number of dorsal and anal rays 
and the decreased number of lateral line scutes. 
ALECTIS INDICA (Ruppell). 
lleer-Jicen Nieuhof, Toy. Ind. Orient., i, 1GS2, p. 270, c. fig.; Willugliby, Hist. Pise., App., 1686, 
pi. vii, fig. 1. 
Ihan-lcapt'lle Ruysch, Theatr. Anim., i, 1718, pi. ix, fig. 7. 
Ikan-'batoe-janrj-mdha-asing Valentyn, Amboina, iii, 1726, p. 465, fig. 376. 
Zeus sp. No. 2 Artedi, Gen. Pise., 1738, p. oO (not syiwn.) ; Seba, Thesauri, iii, 1761, pi. xxvi, 
fig. 34. 
BonyteAaerije Eenard, Poiss. Moluq, et Torres Austr., ii, 1754, pi. xxvi, fig, 128. 
Zeus galhis part. Bloeh, Ausl. Fiseh., vi, 1788, pi. cxcii, fig. 1 Bounaterre, Encycl. Meth., Ichth., 
1788, p. 71; Grnelin, Liniiiniis Syst. Nat., ed. 13, i, 1789, p. 1222; Schneider, in Bloch, 
Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 91. 
Gallus virescens part. Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 1802, p. 583, 584. 
Zeus gallus Bussell, Fish. Yizagapatam, i, 1803, p. 45. Not of Linnaeus. 
-Gurrali-Parali Russell, ibid., pi. Ivii. 
Scyris ■inriieiis Ru])pell, Atlas Fisch. Roth. Meer., 1828, p. 128, pi. xxxiii, fig. 1 {young)) 
id., Neue 'Wirbelth. Aby^iS., Fisch., 1837, p. 51; Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., ii, 1839, p. 251; 
Cantor, Catah Malay. Fish., 1850, p. 134. 
-Scyris indica Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 1833, p. 145, pi. cclii; Richardson, 
Rop. Ichth. China and Ja[)an, 1845, p. 276. 
Gallichthys major Cuvier & A^alenciennes, ibid,, p. 168, pi. ccliv; Richardson, ibid., p, 271; 
Bleeker, A^erh. Batav. Gen., xxii, 1849, Bali, p. 3; id., ibid., xxiii, 1850, Java, p. 8; 
Cantor, ibid., p. 136. 
Blepharis galliehtlnjs Swainson, ibid., X)* 250. 
Scyris ruppelUl Swainson, ibid., p. 251. 
Carangoides galliclifhys Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., ii, 1851, p. 471; id., ibid., iii, 1852, 
p. 57; id. A>rh. Batav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Makreel., p. 68; id., ibid., xxv, 1853, Bengal, 
p. 44; id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., xii, 1856, p. 215; id. ibid., xvii, 1858, p, 147; id., 
ibid., xviii, 1859, p. 367; id., Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, 1860, Sumatra, p. 30; id., 
ibid., Borneo, p. 14; id., ibid., Celebes, j). 39. 
Caranx alexandrinus Geoffrey, Beser. Egypt, Poiss., pi. xxii, fig. 2. 
