918 Bulletin 4y, United States National Museum. 



Uraspis (ovpoi, tail; clktitl^, shield): 



aa. Teeth ou vomer anil palatines wanting or deciduous ; teeth in jaw subequal, bluntish, in 



one or two rows; lateral line not strongly arched; soft dorsal and anal low; shields 



rather few. 



II. Body deep, compressed, the hack and lidly arched; shields 24 to 30; second P. 1,26; A. 



I, 22; opercular spot present. (U'ara, 1321. 



Subgenus SELAR, Bleekor. 

 1310. ("ARANX VIXCTUS, .Jordan .V Gilbert. 



(COCINERA.) 



Head 3i ; depth 3. Second D. I, 24; A. I, 19; lateral scutes strong, 

 about 48. Body elongate, elliptical, compressed, upper profile evenly 

 arched from snout to caudal peduncle, the lower nearly rectilinear from 

 snout to origin of anal fin ; upper profile slightly carinate anteriorly. 

 Width of cheek about equal to diameter of eye. Moutli moderately 

 oblique, the jaws subequal, the lower scarcely included ; intermaxillaries 

 anteriorly about on a level with axis of body, just below level of lower 

 margin of eye ; maxillary reaching vertical from front of orbit, 3 in 

 head; teeth very small, blunt, in a narrow band in each jaw, becoming 

 a single series in sides of mandible ; the outer series slightly enlarged ; 

 teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue similar to those on jaws. Gill 

 rakers very long, numerous, the longest f diameter of orbit, their 

 number about 10 + 27. Eye large, less than length of snout, about equal- 

 ing interorbital width, 4 in head. Adipose eyelid moderately developed. 

 Preopercle with its posterior margin very oblique, the angle broadly 

 rounded; preorbital thin, its least width ? diameter of orbit. Spinous 

 dorsal well developed, the spines high and flexible; the antrorse spine 

 well developed ; the fourth spine the longest, the fifth but little shorter ; 

 those posterior rapidly decreasing; the fourth spine equaling S length of 

 head ; length of longest dorsal ray less than i length of head ; anal 

 spines strong, the soft rays a little lower than those of dorsal ; soft 

 dorsal and anal entirely received within a very deep membranaceous 

 scaly sheath, which is } the height of median dorsal rays, and terminat- 

 ing before the ends of the fins, leaving the last 2 rays free ; the 2 fins 

 not falcate, the rays regularly decreased from first ; pectorals very long, 

 falcate, reaching much beyond origin of anal, and to twelfth lateral 

 scute; the fins i; length of body ; ventrals reaching to or slightly beyond 

 vent, which is nearly equidistant from their inner axil and from second 

 anal spine; caudal lobes not falcate, the upper slightly the longer, a 

 little less than length of head. Lateral line with a strong curve ante- 

 riorly, the width of which is less than i straight portion; the depth of 

 curve about i its width ; plates very strongly developed, extending the 

 whole length of straight portion of lateral line, which begins under first 

 dorsal rays; top of head, opercles, jaws, and preorbital scaleless or with 

 a very few scattering scales; cheeks scaly; breast entirely covered w^ith 

 fine scales; meraljrane of caudal fin with series of scales. Color dusky, 

 bluish above, silvery below, with golden and greenish reflections ; 8 or 9 

 vertical dark half bars descend from back to below lateral line, the 



