396 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



seven to 10 finlets; ventrals small; pectorals moderate, near the 

 level of the eye; air bladder present; vertebrae normally 

 formed, 45 in number. Fishes of the high seas; graceful in form 

 and beautiful in color; among the best of food fishes. (After 

 Jordan and Evermann) 



198 Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill) 



Spamsh Mackerel 



Scomber maculatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 426, pi. YI^ 



fig. 8, 1815, New York. 

 Cyhium macuJatum De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 108, pi. 73, fig. 232, 1842^ 



Xew York; Gx;nther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus, II, 372, 1860; Stoker, 



Hist. Fish. Mass. 68, pi. XIII, fig. 1, 1867; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex 



Inst. XI, 15, 1879. 

 Scomheromorus maculatus JORbAN & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Xat. Mus. 426, 



1883; Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 138, 1888; 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. 



N. Y. 254, pi. VII, fig. 9, 1890; Jordan & EverslA-NN, Bull. 47, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 874, 1896, pi. CXXXIV, fig. 368, 1900. 



Body elongate, much compressed, fusiform, its greatest depth 

 from one fourth to two ninths of total length without caudal, 

 its width two fifths of its depth and equal to postorbital part of 

 head; least depth of caudal peduncle one half the postorbital 

 part of head; head rather short, compressed, the lower jaw 

 heavy, but not projecting, length of head one fifth of total with- 

 out caudal; maxilla somewhat expanded posteriorly, extending 

 to hind margin of orbit, the upper jaw equal to snout and eye 

 combined; 16 strong conical teeth on each side in upper jaw, and 

 13 in the lower, vomer with a broad, short patch of minute, villi- 

 form teeth, palatine teeth similar^ in club-shaped patches; man- 

 dible equal to head without snout; snout one third as long as 

 head, very acute; posterior nostril twice as large as anterior; 

 eye one fifth as long as head; interorbital space very convex, it4 

 width nearly equal to snout; gill rakers short, 2 above and 

 11 below the angle of the first arch. The spinous dorsal origi- 

 nates over the insertion of the pectoral and considerably in ad- 

 vance of the ventral origin; the base of the fin is long, as long 

 as the head plus the length of the snout; the second and longest 

 spine is three sevenths as long as the head and four times as- 

 long as the last spine, the fin decreasing in hight regularly from 



