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tlie soft dorsal and anal extend on those fins, forming five blotches on 
the former and three on the latter ; a blackish band between the eyes ; 
ventrals black. Head short, deeper than long ; profile convex. Dorsal 
and anal fins not elevated. D. VII-I, 30 j A. II, 20. {Cuv. (& Val.) 
Coast of South Carolina. 
(Scomber fasciatu^ Bloch. Ichth. taf. 341; Gunther, ii, 464; Cuv. & Val. ix, 211: 
Zonichtliys* fasciatus Swainson, Class. Fish. 1839, 248.) 
22§.— ELAttATIS Bennett. 
Yellow Taih, 
(Sej-ioUchtliys Bleeker: Decaptus Poey.) 
(Bennett, Narrative of a whaling voyage, ii, 283, 1840: type Seriola bipinnulata, Qaoy 
& Gaimard.) 
Second dorsal and anal long, each with one detached finlet composed 
of two rays. Otherwise as in Seriola. {■yXdxd-t), a spindle.) 
TOG. E. pisBMMBaJMS Poey. 
Bluish, with two longitudinal bluish bands, yellowish below. Body 
fusiform, very elongate. Cheeks scaly. Maxillary reaching a little be- 
yond nostrils. Eyes 7^ in head. Caudal keel feeble ; caudal lobes very 
long. Pectorals pointed, halfas long as head. Fins not scaly. Two rays 
connected by membrane in each finlet. Headlf; depth 5J. D. YI-I, 
36-11; A. II-I, 17-11. L. feet. {Poey.) West Indies, north to 
Florida : rare. 
(Seriola pinnulata Poey, Memorias, ii, 233, 1858.) 
229. — SCOI?IBKOIDES.fLac^p^<ie. 
Leather-jackets. 
(Laedpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 52, 1802 : type Scomberoides noeli Lac.*) 
Body compressed, oblong or lanceolate. Caudal peduncle slender, 
not keeled. Dead short, compressed, acute. Occipital keel sharp. 
]\Iouth rather large, with small sharii teeth in bands on jaws, tongue, 
vomer, and palatines, and sometimes on the pterygoids. Jaws about 
equal, the upper not protractile ; maxillary very narrow, without dis- 
tinct supplemental bone. Gill-rakers rather long. Scales small in our 
species, linear, and extremely narrow, embedded in the skin at different 
angles. Lateralline unarmed. Dorsal spines rather strong, 3 to 7 in 
number, nearly free in the adult; second dorsal very long, its posterior 
rays iJencillated and nearly or quite disconnected, forming finlets; anal 
• The genus Zonichthys Swainson, 1. c., based on this species is characterized by the 
deex) head, its depth at the occiput being greater than its length. (Zovoi, zone ; 
fish.) 
