57. SCOMBEEESOCID^ SCOMBERESOX. 
375 
with very feeble teeth; lower jaw the longer. Maxillaries joined to 
premaxillaries. Pectorals and ventrals small; dorsal small, opposite 
anal; last 4-6 rays of dorsal and anal detached, forming tinlets. No 
pyloric cceca. Air-bladder large. Gill-rahers numerous, long and slen- 
der. Size rather small. Species 2 or more, ranging widely m the open 
sea. [Scomber; Esox.) 
a. Jaws produced in a beak. 
601. S. satirais (Walb.) Fleming. — Saury; Skipper; Bill-fish. 
Olive brown above, sides and below silvery; a distinct silvery band 
as broad as the eye bounding the dark of the back. Head broad above, 
narrowed below, tapering anteriorly to the very slender pointed beak; 
snout longer than the rest of the head; Fins all small; caudal fin 
forked; ventrals midway between base of caudal and front of eye. 
Head 3^ in length; depth 9. D. 9 — VI; A. 12 — VI; Lat. 1. 110. L. 
18 inches. Atlantic Ocean; rather common on both coasts, and found 
in the open seas. 
(Esox sfl«rus Walbanm, Artedi, Pise, iii, 93, 1792: Scomheresox eamperi Cnv. & Val. 
xviii, 464: Sconiheres%x sciitellatum Le Sueur, Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. ii, 132, 1821; 
Fleming, Brit. Anim. 184 ; Gunther, vi, 257 : Scoinbercsox storeri Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 
315 : ? Scomheresox rondeleti Gunther, vi, 257. ) 
aa. Jaws scarcely produced, not forming a beak. 
602. §. l>s’evia*o§tris Peters. 
Dark green above, silvery below; sides with a lateral silvery stripe, 
bounded above by a dusky streak; upper fins mostly dusky; lower 
liale. Body much elongate, compressed, widest above, the abdomen 
and lower edge of head trenchant. Upper jaw conical, not produced, 
ending in a very acute tip; lower jaw slightly longer, its tip produced 
for a very slight distance, and flexible; triangular portion of premax- 
illaries as long as broad; snout a little more than half length of rest of 
head; interorbital space flat; maxillary reaching front of orbit. Teeth 
very minute, in a single row in each jaw. Eye large, in front of middle 
of head. Pectoral fin somewhat emarginat;*, ^ length of head; ven- 
trals small, far back, slightly nearer tip of snout than tip of lower lobe 
of caudal; dorsal inserted slightly behind front of anal; both fins low, 
the finlets small; caudal widely forked, the lobes equal. Scales small, 
deciduous, those on top of head forming an elliptical patch. Head 54; 
depth 9. D. 9 — VI; A. 12— VI; Lat. 1. ca. 125. L. 14 inches. Coast 
of California; rare. 
(Peters, Monatsberii ;bt Akail. Wiss. Berk July, 1866, 521 : 1 Scomheresox saira Giiiitber, 
vi, 258. ) 
