88 CARANX HIPPOS. 



ous small fish, and portions of crustaceous animals have also been found in its 

 stomach. 



Geographical Distribution. The known range of the Caranx defensor is 

 from New York to Florida. 



General Remarks. This fish was first made known to naturalists by Dr. 

 DeKay, in his Zoology of New York. 



CARANX HIPPOS. — iwHrPMs. 



Plate XII. Fig. 2. 



Specific Characters. Body elongated, sub-compressed ; above greenish-olive ; 

 sides and belly golden^ a dusky spot at the superior and posterior part of the 

 opercle. D. 8-1-24. P. 19. V. 1-5. A. 2-1-20. C. 18. 



Synonymes. Scomber hippos, Lin., Sys. Nat., torn. i. p. 494. 



Scomber chrysos, Mitch., Lit. and Phil. Trans. N. Y., vol. i. p. 424. 

 Caranx chrysos, Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. ix. p. 98. 

 Caranx chrysos, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iv. p. 121, pi. 27, fig. 85. 

 Caranx chrysos, Storer, Synops., p. 101. 

 Horse Crevalle, Vulgo. 



Description. The form of this fish without the tail is elliptical, elongated, and 

 slightly more arched at the belly than the preceding species ; it is sharper along 

 the outline of the back, and thicker at the belly, so that a transverse section is ellip- 

 tical, and rather broadest just below the lateral line. The head is large, with the 

 snout narrow, though rounded, and the facial outline descends in a regular curve, 

 and is by no means as much arched at the forehead as it is in the Caranx defensor, 

 nor is it incurved at the nostrils. The eye is large, with its inferior margin about 

 the median plane of the head, rather more than its diameter from the snout, and 



