84 
MEMOmS OF TEE QVEENSLANJ) MVSEVM. 
Caranx gallns Gimtber, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish,, ii, 18(30, p. 455; Bay, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865,- 
p. 25; id., Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 91; Kkinzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1871, 
p. 454; Giinther, Fiseh. d. Sudsee, pt. 4, 1870, p. 135; Bay, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, p, 224, 
pi. li, fig. 3; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. B. Wales, v, 1881, p. 538; Boulenger, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. London, 1887, p. 661; Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 289, eliro.-pl. xvi, fig. 2; 
id., Katnr. in Anstr., 1897, p. 169, text-fig. p. 153, and pi. xxvii, fig A; Stead, Edib. 
Fish. K. S. Wales, 1908, p. 88, pi. Iviii. 
Carangoklcs goUus Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Anisterdain, xii, 1861, pp. 53, 74; id., ibid., xiv, 
1862, p. 106. 
Citula gallns Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Bierk., i, 1863, p. 242; id., ibid., ii, 186-5, pp. 174, 191, 
290; id., Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) ii, 1868, pp. 293, 300; id., Nederl, Tijds. Bierk., iv, 
1873, p. 132; id., in Pollen and van Bam, Faun, Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss., p. 99. 
Coronx ciliaris Bay, Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 90 (young). Not Zeus eiliaris Blocdi. 
Scyris gallus Kliinzinger, Fisch. Roth. Meer., i, 1884, p. 101. 
AJectis eiliaris Stead, Fish. Aiisti’., 1906, p. 158 (letterpress)-, Jordan & Seale, Bull. IT. S. 
Bur. Fish., xxvi, 1907, p. 34; Seale & Bean, Proc. lb S. Nat. Mus., xxxiii, 1908, p. 242. 
Not Zeus ciliarU Blocdi. 
CaraJix (Alectis) gallns Stead, Addit. Fish. Faun. N. S. Wales, 1907, p. 16, pi. iv. 
Aleciis Major Jordan & Ricdiardson, Bull U. S. Bur. Fish., xxvii, 1908, p. 251; idd., Mem. 
Carnegie Mus., iv. No. 4, 1909, p. 180; idd., Check-List. Fish. Philipp. Archip., 1910, p. 21. 
Alectis indicus Bean & Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xlii, 1912, p. 600. 
PLUMEB TREYALLY. 
Diamond Fish (Kent) ; Silvery Moon-Fish (Stead). 
(Plate XXVI.) 
Type localities : — Bed Sea at Massawa (S. indices). 
Pondicherry ((7. major). 
Dorsal contour of the body angular and elevated, more so in the young 
than in the adult, much higher than the ventral contour, the higliest point being 
at the origin of tlie soft dorsal, between which and the occiput it is linear or 
feebly emarginate and moderately declivous; bavse of dorsal linear and rather 
loss declivous; ventral contour linear from the throat to the middle of the 
breast, theu<'e convex to between the ventral-bases, beyond which it is feebly 
concave to the anal, the base of wliich is linear and acclivous; width of body 
4-G to 3*85 in its depth, M'luch is 145 to 1-85 in its length and 2 to 1*75 times the 
length of the head; abdominal region short, l-!)5 to 1*7 in the length of the 
anal; caudal peduncle det^ier than wide in the young, wider than deep in the 
adult, its widtli 2-2 to 1*5 in the eye-diameter. Head rather large and deep, its 
anterior profile slightly concave and very strongly acclivous, the occipital profile 
gibbous, its length 2*95 to 3*25 in that of the body, its width 2*8 to 24 in its 
depth, which is a little more than its length; eranio-nuchal keel trenchant in the 
young, l)eeoming blunter with age. Snout long and pointed ; eye moderate, its 
diameter 3*55 to 44 in the length of the head and 1*6 to 2-15 in that of the 
snout; interorhital region elevated, its width from one fifth less than the eye- 
diameter in the young to a little more in the adult. Lower jaw strongly declivous ; 
