An adult example in the Academy from Apia, Samoa, 
identified as C. sexfasciatus Jordgn and Seale’“agrees 
with two ‘onolulu examples recorded as C. marginatus 
Fowler”’, All show the eye 4 in the head and the small 
dusky spot at the upper corner of the opercie, We fol» 
84 
low Nichols in writing C. marginatus Gill and C. rhabe 
dotus Jenkins with the present species, after an exami-~ 
nation of the types of all three, Our examples of Cc, 
lateral line 
forsteri show the curve of the ==:%, 14 to 1 3.5 in the 
straignt section, 
Bull.Bur,.Fisher,U.S.,vol,25,1905(1906),p. 230. 
35 rroc,Acad,.at.Sci,Phila,,1905, p. Bl, 
Bull.Amer,Mus Nat .Aist.,vol,28,1910, p, 159, 
Caranx Sexfasciatus Quoy and Gaimard, ee fi K 
Head 3 to 3q; depth 24 to 2 2/3; D. I, vITz - I, 19 
to 21; A. II - I, 15 to 173; scales 48 to 507730 to 37; 
snout 3.1/5 to 4 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 4 to 5 1/5; 
maxillary 2 1/8 to 2 1/6; interorbital 3% to 3 3/5/ 
Body fusiform, front profile evenly convex. Head width 
2to 21/8 in its length. Snout length 7/8 to 1 in its 
width, Eye always less than snout, hind edge about midway 
in head. Mouth moderate, lower jaw slightly protruding, 
Maxillary to hind pupil edge; expansion 1} to 1% in eye, 
Teeth small, conic, in single row in each jaw, front ones 
little enlarged, short and inner row of few smaller ones 
