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jaw in a broad yilliform band; an outer series of large, wide-set, coni- 
cal teetb; teeth of lower jaw in one row, a distinct canine on each side 
of symphysis; Yilliform teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids, and 
tongue. Lateral line with a wide arch, its length f that of straight 
l)art; plates not covering all of straight part. Dorsal spines short, 
rather stout; procumbent spine obsolete. Gill-rakers stout, not very 
long, 15 below angle. Occipital keel shari). Eye not very large, 
longer than snout, 4 in head. Pectoral falcate, longer than head. 
Breast naked, with a small patch of scales in front of ventrals only. 
Caudal lobes equal. Ilead 3^; depth 2^; Lat. 1. (scutes) about 30. 
D. YIII-I, 20; A. II-I, 17. Caije Cod to West Indies; common south- 
ward. 
{Scomler hippos L. Syst. Nat: Carangus hippos Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18R2, 
4tl3 : Caranx defensor Holbrook, Ichtb. S. C. 1860, 87 : Caranx caninus Gunther, Trans. 
Zool. Soc. Loud. 1866, 432: Scomher carangus Bloch, taf. 340: Scomber chrysos MitehiW, 
Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y^. i, 424: Carangus chrysos Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila. 1862, 434: Carangus esculcntus Grd. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 23: Caranx 
carangus Gunther, ii, 448.) 
222.— BI.EPMAR3S Cuvier. 
Cobbler-fishes. 
( Gaihts Lac4])ede, preoccuihed : Scytis, Hynnis and Gallichthys Cuv. & Val.: Blepha- 
richihys Gill.) 
(Cuvier, Regne Anim. ii, 1817: type Zeu,s cUiaris Bloch.) 
Body rhomboid, deep, strongly compressed, more or less pomjtletely 
covered with minute embedded scales, sometimes apparently naked; 
those on the straight portion of the lateral line enlarged, bony and 
spinous, as in Caranx^ but less develoiied. Mouth moderate, with 
bands of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue. First 
dorsal fin little developed, the spines short and rudimentary, mostly 
disappearing with age; soft dorsal and anal similar to each other; the 
first five or six rays of each fin elongate and filiform in the young, be- 
coming shorter with age; ventral fins elongate in young; on fiulets. 
Caudal peduncle narrow ; the caudal widely forked. Gill-rakers mod- 
erate, stout. This genus is not essentially different from Caranx. 
Warm seas. fiXe^apoi;^ cilium.) 
692. B. crisistus (Akerly) Dekay. 
Bluish above, golden yellow below; a dark blotch on opercle; a 
black spot on orbit above; a black blotch on dorsal and anal in front. 
Body oval, much compressed, highest at the elevated bases of dorsal 
and anal fins. Preorbital very deep. Mouth nearly horizontal in the 
