CARANX. 
61 
some stronger ones on the vomer. The praeoperculum is coarsely denticulated behind 
and below ; the pectoral is not falciform. The colour is silvery below, darker above, 
with five or six indistinct darker cross bands and a black opercular spot. 
Length 2 inches. 
195. Caranx speciosus. C 4 "-] 
Scomber speciosus, Forsk. p. 54. 
Russell , ii. p. 36, pi. 149. 
Caranx speciosus, Cuv. Val. ix. p. 130 ; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 133 ; Peters, Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 245 
(not Riipp.) ; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 444. 
Aden. Zanzibar. From the Bed Sea , through all the Indian seas, to the coast of New 
Holland. 
196. Caranx rfippellii. [700.] 
Caranx petaurista, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 95, pi. 25. f. 2 (not Geoffr.). 
Caranx riippellii, G'unth. Fish. ii. p. 445. 
Seychelles. Bed Sea. 
197. Caranx melampygus. [301.] 
D - 8 I^- A. 2 | A L.lat. 36. 
Caranx melampygus, Cuv. Val. ix. p. 116; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 446. 
Zanzibar. Mauritius to Polynesia. 
198. Caranx hippos. 
For synonymy see Gunther, Fish. ii. p. 449. 
Aden. Zanzibar. Atlantic coasts of temperate and tropical America, 
seas , to the Pacific and the shores of Australia. 
199. Caranx armatus. [74, 681, 428.] 
Sciaena armata, Forsk. p. 53. 
Russell, pi. 151. p. 38 (young). 
Citula ciliaria, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 102, t. 25. f. 8. 
armata, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 102, and N. W. Fische, p. 50. 
Caranx citula, Cuv. Val. ix. p. 126. 
armatus, Cuv. $ Val. ix. p. 127 ; Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 131 ; Giinth. Fish. ii. p. 453. 
ciliaris, Cuv. Val. ix. p. 129 (young). 
cirrhosus, ( Ehrenb .) Cuv. § Val. pi. 250. 
Olistus malabaricus, Cuv. Val. ix. p. 137, pi. 251 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 58. f. 1. 
riippellii, Cuv. fy Val. ix. p. 144. 
Aden. Zanzibar. Seychelles. Bed Sea. through all Indian seas , to New Guinea, 
[ 118 .] 
All the Indian 
