75. CARANGID^E CARANX. 435 



685. C. pisqiicttis Cuv. & Val. CrevalU. 



Greenish olive, golden yellow below ; a black blotch on opercle. Body 

 oblong, moderately elevated, the dorsal and ventral outlines about 

 equally arched. Profile forming a uniform curve. Snout rather sharp. 

 Mouth slightly oblique, a little below axis of body. Maxillary reaching 

 about to middle of orbit. Teeth comparatively large ; a single series in 

 lower jaw ; upper jaw with an inner series of smaller teeth ; no canines ; 

 teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue. Eye rather small, shorter than 

 snout, 3 in head. Gill-rakers long, numerous. Pectoral as long as 

 head, barely reaching anal, its broad basal part half its length. Scales 

 moderate; cheeks and breast scaly. Top of head naked, with series 

 of mucous pores. Lateral line with a weak arch anteriorly, which is 

 about half length of straight portion. Lateral scutes numerous, devel- 

 oped on whole straight part of lateral line. Head 3f ; depth 3. D. 

 VIII-I, 24 ; A. II-I, 19 ; Lat. 1. 50 (scutes). L. 1 foot. Cape Cod to 

 West Indies; the most abundant of the Carangidce on our Atlantic 

 coast northward. 



(Cuv. & Val. ix, 97 : Caranx hippos Holbr. Ichth. S. C. 1880, 90 : Parairactus pisque- 

 tus Gill, Proc. Aead. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 432 : Caranx chrysos Giinther, ii, 445.) 



6S. C. caballus Giinther. 



Greenish above, silvery below ; a black blotch on the opercle, none 

 elsewhere. Form of C. pisquetus ; rather elongate, not greatly com- 

 pressed ; the dorsal and ventral outlines regularly and nearly equally 

 arched ; a low occipital carina ; a prominent supraocular ridge. Scales 

 comparatively large, the scaly sheaths of the vertical tins well developed. 

 Cheeks and upper part of opercles scaled; breast scaled, jaws naked. 

 Teeth in a narrow band above, those in front somewhat enlarged, those 

 of lower jaw mostly in one series ; feeble teeth on tongue, vomer, and 

 palatines. Mouth rather small, the jaws nearly equal ; maxillary reach- 

 ing front of pupil. Eye large, 3 in head, the adipose eyelid unusually 

 developed. Gill-rakers numerous, very long and slender, 28 below angle. 

 Curve of lateral line low, the straight part beginning under first ray of 

 second dorsal^ at a distance rather more than length of head ; length of 

 arch If in straight part. Scutes of lateral line strong. Pectoral fins 

 very long, slender, and falcate, their length considerably more than that 

 of the head ; a little less than 3 times in length of body, their tips reach- 

 ing fourth anal ray ; the broad basal part forming little more than one- 

 third the total length of the fin ; ventrals short ; a concealed spine 

 before dorsal ; second dorsal and anal a little elevated in front, the long- 



