ELACATE CANADA. 95 



GENUS 'EL AC AT B.— Cuvier. 



Characters. Head depressed ; body elongated ; no finlets ; tail without a 

 carina ; anal fin without free spines in front ; branchial rays seven. 



ELACATE CANADA. — Litimeus. 



Plate XIV. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Head large, depressed ; body sub-cylindrical, without 

 finlets ; dusky olive-brown, or black above ; a light olive-brown horizontal band 

 extends from the opercle to the tail, with a lighter band below, and a clouded 

 white one above it ; belly white ; tail without a carina. D. 8-2-30. P. 20. 

 V. 1-5. A. 2-23. C. 21. 



Synonymes. Gasterosteus canadus, Lin., Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 491. 



Gasterosteus canadus, Gmel., ed. Syst. Nat., vol. i. pars iii. p. 1328. 



Scomber niger. Block, Ichth., pars x. p. 148, pi. 337. 



Centronote Gardenien, Lacep., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. iii. p. 357. 



Centronotus spinosus, Mitch., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., vol. i. p. 490, pi. 3, 



fig. 9. 

 Elacate Atlantica, Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. viii. p. 334, pi. 233. 

 Elacate Atlantica, BeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iv. p. 113, pi. 25, fig. 77. 

 Elacate Atlantica, Storer, Synops., p. 111. 

 Cobia, Vulgo. 



Description. The general form of this fish is elongated, sub-cylindrical, 

 tapering gradually to the tail, and flattened above from the first dorsal spine to 

 the snout ; which gives it the appearance of an Echeneis. The head is large, flat 

 above, but full at the sides ; the upper jaw is flat, broad, rounded, and nearly 

 semicircular at the snout ; the lower is narrower, thicker, terminates in a more 



