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Hend. except lips and branchiostegal region, covered with smooth, I 

 thin scales, these overlaid with smaller ones; those on upper part of | 

 head, on snout, and lower jaw small and minute. Body with large, 

 mioo'th, thin scales. Fins all completely c-overed with small scales. 



First dorsal spine somewhat more than half as long as the second; 

 inserted close to it; third spine longest: tin when depressed fitting into 

 a narrow groove; the tips of the spines not reaching insertion of soft 

 dorsal. Spine of soft dorsal closely adnate to the first ray: membrane 

 of fin thick and fleshy. Anal inserted l>elow the middle of soft dorsal; 

 the first spine verv short: l)oth spines closely adnate to the first ray; 

 edges of both dorsal and anal tins concave. Caudal deeply notched. 

 Pectorals pointed, a))out It in head. Ventrals short, about ^ m head. 



Color everywhere l)lackish gray: lining of mouth and gill chambers 

 bluish black. 



I^ength about 500 millimeters. 



7^,^^^,.._No. 12657, Leland Stanford Junior University Museum. The 

 type and a similar specimen were taken on long hand lines (dabonawa) 

 by Kumakichi Aoki in the deep water between Mistdvi and the island 



of Oshima. 



(Named for Professor Charles Henry Gill)ert.) 



7. SCOMBROPS Schlegel. 



Scomhwp.^ Temminxk an.l SrHLE(JEi., Fauna .laponica, 1S46, p. 118 {rlinhdiptr- 



roides = hoops). 

 Lalehr'is FoBY, Meniorias, 11, 1S«0, p. KiS (nr,ihitH.'<). 



Body elongate, covered with small, thin, smooth scales: mouth very 

 large;" lower jaw longest; 2 to 4 long canines in upper jaw. besides 

 strong lateral teeth: a series of canines in lower; teeth in hands on 

 vomer and on palatines; preopercle not serrated; its angle produced; 

 opercle with 2 feeble points; tongue notched; eye large. Branchi- 

 ostegals 7. Dorsals separated, the first of 8 very feeble spines: anal 

 spines 3: soft dorsal and anal rather long, of 12 to 14 rays, the mem- 

 branes scaly. Pyloric cceca 6 to 15. (liU-rakers long. Soft-hodied 

 fishes, living in rather deep water. 



{Sc'>ii>h<i\ mackerel: cof. appearance.) 



i6. SCOMBROPS BOOPS (Houttuyn). 

 MUTSU; OKIMl'TSr (OFF SHORE ^MFTSU). 



Spnru^ hoops HorTTCVN, I5c.cl.rvvin- .lap. X'isschen, 1782, pp. 311-;-!4B, Nagasaki. 



Scornhrops hoops Jordan an.l Snvoer, Pn.c. U. S. Nat. Mils., XXIII, 1901, p. 750. 



Sromhrops Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss. 1847, p. 118, pi. l.xii, fig. 2, NagasakL 



Scomhrop.^ chcdodiptcroUhs Bleekek, Verhand. Bat. Qen. XXV, Japan, p. 9; 

 XXVI, Japan, p. 5S, Natra^aki.— Guxthek, Cat. Fish., 1, 1859, p. 249, Japan. - 

 Steixd'vchxeh and Dooeklein, Fische Japans, II, 1883, p. 5, "in ganz 

 Japan. "-Nystkom, Hand!. Svensk. Vt-t. Ak., 1887, p. 9, Nagasaki.-JoRDAN 

 and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. :\Ius. , X X 1 1 1, UHiO, ].. :«:i, Tokyo. 



