57. SCOMBERESOCID.E EXOCCETUS. 379 



608. E. californacMS Cooper. Flying-fish; Volador. 



Steel-blue above and ou both sides, belly abruptly silvery. Pectorals 

 blackish, with the posterior edge paler; an obscure oblique pale baud 

 across lower part; caudal plain dusky; ventrals pale, partly dusky; 

 dorsal rather pale, with a dusky blotch above. Body stoutish. Lower 

 jaw rather the longer ; both jaws with minute teeth. Eye large, rather 

 longer than snout, 3 in head, nearly equal to the diameter of the slightly 

 concave iuterorbital space. Pectoral fin reaching past the dorsal 

 and falling just short of the caudal. Second ray of pectoral divided, 

 the third longest. Ventrals about reaching middle of anal, their length 

 3f in body, their insertion midway between middle of opercle and base 

 of tail. Anterior rays of dorsal half the length of the head ; 43 rows of 

 scales between occiput and dorsal, 7 between the dorsal and the lateral 

 line. Head 5; depth 6; I). 12; A. 10; Lat. 1. 58. L. 18 iucties. 

 Southern California ; very abundant in summer about the Santa Bar- 

 bara Islands. 



(Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad.Nat. Sci. 18G4, 93; Giiiither, vi, 295.) 



609. E, Moveboracensss Mitchill. 



Dark bluish above ; pectorals blackish, with the lower edge pale, in 

 the young with two black bars; ventrals mesially blackish, the edges all 

 white; caudal lobes mesially dusky, the edges pale. Head short ; snout 

 very blunt, shorter than the very large eye, which is narrower than the 

 broad, concave, iuterorbital space. Pectoral fins very long, reaching 

 past the base of the caudal ; second ray of pectoral divided ; ventrals 

 reaching considerably past anal ; their insertion midway between the 

 preopercle and the base of the caudal. Dorsal fin inserted opposite 

 anal. Head 4 ; depth 5J. D. 11; A. 9. Lat. 1. 42-48. North Atlantic; 

 not rare on our coast. 



(Mitcliill, Amer. Mouth. Mag. ii, 233, 1817; DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 230; 

 ?Cuv.& Val. xix, 99.) 



610. E. mclanuirias Guv. & Val. 



Bluish above, silvery below, the pectoral fin blackish, except a por- 

 tion of its middle and inner edge ; veutrals plain or nearly so. Head 

 of moderate length, not very blunt, the iuterorbital space broad, wider 

 than the eye and somewhat concave. Eye A*ery large, longer than 

 snout, 3 in head. Pectoral fin If in length, reaching past the base of 

 the last dorsal ray and the tip of the last anal ray. Ventrals inserted 

 midway between the posterior edge of the eye and the middle of the 

 base of the caudal, their tips reaching nearly to the base of the last 



