BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 27 



Family. SCOMBRI D^E. 

 1186. Scomber janesaba. Bleek. 

 Gunth. Cat. 2, p. 359. 

 D. 9-10 /£ /V-VI. A.l/ 10 l n . /V-VI. 



Scales small, conspicuous. The height of the body is 6t-6§ in 

 the total length, the length of the head four times ; the diameter 

 of the eye 3J-3^ in the latter. Back with greenish- violet spots 

 and waving transverse streaks ; sides and belly silvery. An air 

 bladder. 



Hobson's Bay. ^Klunzinger). 



1187 Scomber kanagurta. Russ. 



Gunth. Cat. 2 p. 360. Syn. S. loo. Cuv. and Val. S. chryzo- 

 zonus. Riipp. S. microlepidotus. Riipp. *S'. moluccensis. Bleek. 

 and S. reani. Day. 



D. 9-10 /A /V. A. l/i /V. 



Scales small. The height of the body is four times in the total, 

 length of the head 3J. Above uniform greenish, on the sides and 

 belly silvery, sometimes with longitudinal stripes on the back and 

 sides, and with four or five blackish spots along the base of the 

 spinous dorsal fin. 



Queensland. (Klunzinger.) 



1188. Scomber tapeinocephalus. Bleek. 



Gunth. Cat. 2 p. 361. The Tunny of the Mediterranean. 



D. 11-11/A /V-VL A. l/i /V-VI 



Scales small, conspicuous, those of the pectoral region larger 

 than the others. The height of the body is seven times in the 

 total length, the length of the head i\. Teeth conspicuous. Back 

 and sides with greyish violet spots and waving transverse streaks. 

 No air bladder. 



Hobson's Bay. (Klunzinger.) 



1189. Thynnus thynnus. L. 

 D. 14/A/IX. A. 2/12/VIII. Vert. 16/23. 

 The height of the body is 4^ in the total length, the length 

 of the head four times. The pectoral reaches nearly to the end of 



