908 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



northward ; very common on tbe coasts of Florida and in the West 

 Indies, (jtunctatus, dotted.) 



Scomher hippof, MiTCHli.L, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, pi. 5, fig. 5; not of Linn/f.us. 

 Caranx punctahm, Agassiz, Sjiix, Pise. Bras., 108, plate 56a, fig. 2, 1829, Brazil; Cuvieb & 



Vaiknciennks, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 38, 1883, GCntiiek, Cat., ir, 426, 1800. 

 Carmix mareiis (Risso), CuviER <& Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., ix, 33, 1883, Mediterranean. 

 Decaplenis puncOiliif;, PoEV, Synopsis, 368,1875; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 432, 1883; Jordan 



& GlLliEliT, Pioc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, ISO. 



129S. DECAPTERUS SCOMBRINUS (Valenciennes). 



Head 31; depth 4|. D. IX-I, 27-1; A. II, 23-1; scales 42, lateral line 

 very slightly bent. Eye large, 3^ in head; snout equaling eye; pectoral 

 1 J in head. Greenish above; paler below; no distinct opercular spot; 

 no black spots in figure. (Giinther, after Valenciennes.) Galapagos 

 Islands; not seen by us. Close to 7)('ert7)/erMSj)«Hc/<(<Ms, the dorsal appar- 

 ently shorter. (scombrinu,s, mackerel-like.) 



Oaran.e acomhriniiii, VALENCIENNES, Voyage de la Venus, 332, pi. 7, fig. 1, 1840, Galapago 

 Islands; Guntiier, Cat., ii, 426, 1800. 



1299. DECAPTERUS SANf T.E-HELEN.E (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head4i; depth 5. D. VIII-I, 32-1; A. II-I, 27 or 28-1. Shields 28 

 to 32 (in Japanese examples; 22 to 28 in specimens from St. Helena; 

 Steindachner) ; pectoral IJ in head. Maxillary reaching front of eye; 

 eye moderate, rather shorter than snout. Teeth minute, in single series 

 in jaws ; also on vomer, palatines, and tongue. Bluish, a black opercular 

 spot; tip of soft dorsal brown. Tropical parts of the Atlantic, on both 

 coasts of South America ; not seen by us. According to Poey this species 

 occurs in Cuba, where it differs from Becapterus punctatus in having its 

 scutes subdenticulate, less narrow, and beginning much behind the 

 origin of the anal. According to Steindachner this species is identical 

 with a common Japanese species, DecapUrus muroadsi (Temminck &. 

 Schlegel). 



Caranx sanclit-hdenre, Cuvier <fe Valenciennes, Uist. Nat. Poi.ss., ix, 37, 1833, St. Helena. 

 Decapterus mnclfe-hdenx, Poey, Synopsis, 368, 1808; Jordan & Gili!ert, Synopsis, 190, 1883; 



Steindachner & Doderlein, Fische Japans., iii, 17, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1884. 

 f Caranx miiroa<hi, Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 108, pi. 58, fig. 1, 1842, Japan; 



GiJNTHEK, Cat., II, 425, 1800. 



1300. DECAPTERUS HTPODUS, Gill. 



Head 4 in total ; depth nearly 5. D. VII-I, 21-1 ; A. II-I, 26-T ; scales 

 70 -f- 30, lateral line with a very slight sigmoidal flexure, and covered 

 with very conspicuous scales, trifid on each scale. Teeth on lower jaw 

 small and nniserial ; tongue with a longitudinal narrow band. Color 

 above greenish l)lue, the opercular spot small. Cape San Lucas ; five speci- 

 mens known. It is perhaps a subspecies of Decapterus DtaearelJus, the 

 differences in the size of the teeth being of minor importance and of 

 doubtful permanence, and both forms may be inseparable i\ow. Decapterus 

 sanctce-helenw. (j'tto, below ; o(5oi'f, tooth.) 



Decapterus hypodim, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1862, 201, Cape San Lucas; (Coll. Xantus); 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Niit. Mus., 1882. 358. 



