in front above, scarcely evident below; villiform teeth on 
vomer, palatines and tongue. Nostrils together, close beforee 
eye. Interorbital elevated convexly. Rakers IV or V, 2 to 
3+17 or 18, lanceolate, about equal filaments or 1 1/5 in 
eye. Scales simple, cycloid, with about 22 to 34 circull, 
Third dorsal spine 2 1/5 to 2% in head, Soft dorsal origin 
slightly nearer caudal bese than snout tip or about midway 
between nostrils and caudal base, first branched ray 1 7/8 
to 2 in head; first branched anal ray 2; pectoral long as 
or little longer than head; ventrals 2 to 2%. In alcohol 
brown, paler below. Fins pale uniform brown, No opercular 
spot, Length 95 to 128 mm, Two from Sulu. 
Compared with examples of C. forsteri of similar size 
that species is found to have a conspicuously larger eye. 
Caranx sexfascitatus Quoy and Gaimara?” is based on a young 
disedota ebdut 58 mm. long without a dark opercular spot, 
The figure shows the eye about 3 3/5 in head and maxillary 
reaching opposite hind pupil edge, 
Three drawings by ti oievd. Sas each, representing a 
specimen from Samoa, Fiji and Tahiti, are likely the prese- 
ent specimens, 
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Voy,Uranie Zool., 1824, p. 358, Pl. 56,fig.4. lles de 
Papons. 
