910 Bulletin 47, United S/a/es National Museum. 



Islands and Chili ; not noticed ou tbe coast of Mexico. Alnindant in 

 summer iu the markets of Sau Francisco, where it is a food-fish of good 

 quality. Also widely distributed in the open sea, reaching the Mediter- 

 ranean and New Zealand. It has not been recorded from the east coast of 

 either North or South America, where Triichurus trachunisis the only well- 

 known species, even this being rare. The California species may prove 

 separable from the Atlantic form, in which case it would stand as Truchurun 

 symmetrivns, Ayres ; no difference is, however, known to us. Liitkeu 

 records specimens from the West Indies, Azores, and Chili, {picturatiis, 

 pictured.) (Eu.) 



Seriolu pictnrata, BowDicii, Excursion to Madeira, l'2;i, iig. 27, 1825, Madeira. 



Caranx picturalns, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 269. 



Trachmiin picturatns, Steindachner, Iclith. Berich., v, 34, 18C8; Jordan & GiMiEiiT, Proc. U S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1882, 358; Jordan A; Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, I'Jl; Jordan ic Gil- 

 bert, Synopsis, 911, 1883. 



Caraiix trachnrns, "douxienii^ subdivision," CcviER & Valencienn'ks, Ilist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 17. 

 1833, Mediterranean; Valparaiso. 



Caranx ciwieri, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc.Lond., ii, 1837, 183, Madeira. 



Caranx sijmmetricus, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., i, 1855, 02, San Francisco. 



Tiiichimis fallax, Capello, Catal. Peix. Portugal, 310-318, 1SC7, Lisbon. 



Trachurm rissoi, Giglioli, Catalogo degli Anfibi e Pesci Italiaiii, 27, 1880, Italy; based ou Caranx 

 atnia, KiSSO. 



Caran.c (Trachurns) cuvieri, Steindachneu, Ichth. Beitr., ii, 16, ls76. 



Trachurus cuvieii, LuTKEN, Sjiolia Atlantica, 126, 1880. 



Trachurtts syimnelricvs, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 261. 



1303. TRACHUKUS TRACHURUS (Liniiaus). 

 (Saurel; Gascon.) 



Head 3| ; depth 4 ; eye large, equal to snout, 4 in head. D. VIH-I, 29 ; 

 A. II-I, 28; scales 40 -f 37. Body more compressed and deeper than in the 

 jireceding. Head rather long. Mouth moderate, the maxillary reaching 

 the front of eye. Arch of lateral line short, reaching scarcely beyond jiec- 

 toral, Ii in straight part, the plates high, nearly as high anteriorly as 

 posteriorly, their height more than half eye. Greenish, sides silvery; a 

 dusky opercular spot. Length 1 foot. North Atlantic chiefly on the 

 coasts of Europe, south to Spain and Naples ; it is very rare on our coast, 

 recorded from Newport, K. I., Pensacola, and Cape San Lucas. A third 

 species, Trachurus viecHterraneus, not known from America, largely replaces 

 it in southern Europe. (Eu.) 



Scomber Iraclmntf:, LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 1758, 298, Mediterranean Sea; after Scomber 

 lineadaterali acvleala of Artedi; D. VIII, 34; probably iiicludes Trarlninis iiiedik-nuiieiiti* 



Trachurus Irachirns, Bloch, Naturgescli. IcUthyologia, li, 138, pi. 3G, 1784; good figure aud 

 description of tbe northern species, here called trachurus. 



Caranx trachurus, CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 11, 1833. 



Trachurus (nic/iMrH.'i, Steindachner, Ichth. Berich., v, 32, 1868; Jordan A- Gilbert, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1882, 269; GCnther, Cat. (in part), il, 419, 1860. 



* It is possible that the specific name trachurus, being based entirely ou Mediterranean speci- 

 mens, should bo transferred to the commonest species of that region, now called IVachurus medi- 

 terraneus. In that case the name Trarhurns semispinosiK (Nilsson) is probably to be retained for 

 the form here called Trachurus trachurus, which ranges farther northward than the others. 

 Bloch's description of trachurus belongs to this form, and probably two or three species were con- 

 founded by Artedi and LinnEeus, as by very many later writers. 



