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flu- soft dorsal and anal extend on those fins, forming five blotches oil 

 the former and three on the latter; a blackish band between the eyes: 

 ventrals black. Head short, deeper than long ; profile convex. Dorsal 

 and anal fins not elevated. D. VII-I, 30; A. 11,20. (Cue. & Val) 

 Coast of South Carolina. 



V,,, M /,, r /,</"/.(< Bloch. Ichth. taf. 341; Giinther, ii, 4G4 ; Cnv. & Val. ix, 211: 

 Znnh-htlnjx* faxcialus Swainson, Class. Fish. 1839, 248.) 



22. EL.AGATIS Bennett. 



Yellow Taih. 



(Seriolichthys Bleeker: Decaptus Poey. ) 



(Bennett, Narrative of a whaling voyage, ii, 283, 140: type Seriola bipinnulata, Q*oy 

 & Gaimard.) 



Second dorsal and anal long, each with one detached fiulet composed 

 of two rays. Otherwise as in Seriola. (^xany, a spindle.) 



7OG. E. piBBCBSilatus Poey. 



Bluish, with two longitudinal bluish bands, yellowish below. Body 

 fusiform, very elongate. Cheeks scaly. Maxillary reaching a little be- 

 yond nostrils. Eyes 7 in head. Caudal keel feeble ; caudal lobes very 

 long. Pectorals pointed, half as long as head . Fins not scaly. Two rays 

 connected by membrane in each finlet. Head4^; depth 5.J. D. YI-I, 

 2G-II; A. II-I, 17-11. L. 2 feet. (Poey.) West Indies, north to 

 Florida: rare. 



(Si-riiilu jiinnulata Poey, Memorias, ii, 233, 1858.) 



229. SCOI?IROlDE*Lac6pede. 

 Leather-jackets. 



(Lacr|M-flr, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 52, 1802: type ScombcroidcH nodi Lac.*) 

 T.od.v compressed, oblong or lanceolate. Caudal peduncle slender, 

 not keeled. Head short, compressed, acute. Occipital keel sharp. 

 Monih rather large, with small sharp teeth in bands on jaws, tongue, 

 vomer. and palatines, and sometimes on the ptei\uoids. Jaws about 

 equal, the upper not prot ract ile ; maxillary very narrow, without dis- 

 tinct supplemental hone. ( lill-rakers rat her long. Scales small in our, 

 species, line;;r. and exireinelv narrow, emhedded in the skin at ditferent 

 an-le.. Literalline unarmed. Dorsal spines rather strong, 3 to 7 in 

 niinil.r.i-, nearly five in the adult; second dorsal very long, its posterior 

 rays p ; -ncillated and nearly or quite disconnected, forming finlets; anal 



" Tin- gniu-i /uniflitlii/x Swainson, 1. c., based on this species is characterized by the 

 deep ln-ail, iisdi plh :it t In- ocriimt being greater than its length. (^ovoS, zone; 

 Oah.) 



