248 SCOJIBRESOCID^. 



2d. Belone notata. 

 Poet/, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cub. ii. 18G0, p. 293. 

 D. 13-14. A. 14. 



The free portion of the tail is compressed, deeper than hroad. The 

 length of the head is two-fifths of the total (^vithout caudal) ; its upper 

 surface fiat, with a deep scaly median groove ; superciliary region 

 striated ; base of the intermaxillaries depressed, maxillary hidden 

 by the pi-seorbital. Teeth of moderate size, widely set ; vomerine 

 teeth none. The diameter of the eye is less than the width of the 

 intcrorbital space, and two-fifths of the length of the postorbital 

 portion of the head. Body broad, subcylindrical. The length of 

 the pectoral fin equals the distance of the opercular margin from the 

 orbit. Ventral fin very small, nearly midway between the head 

 and the caudal. The middle and hinder dorsal and anal rays sub- 

 equal in length, short, the last terminating at a considerable distance 

 from the root of the caudal ; basal portion of the anal scaly. Caudal 

 fin slightly emarginate. Scales of moderate siae, or rather large 

 when compared with the other species. 



Cuba, Jamaica. 



rt. Fourteen inches long : skin. Jamaica. From Mr. PameU's Col- 

 lection. 



3. T/tefree ^yoHiun of the tail is strongly compressed ; lateral line withont keel. 

 a. No teeth on he palate. 



30. Belone Mans. 



Cuv. <^- Val. xviii. p. 432, pi. 548. 



D. 26. A. 27. P. 14. V. 6. 



Body and tail strongly compressed. The length of the head is 

 one-fourth of the total (with the caudal). Teeth small. Upper jaw 

 scarcely shorter than lower ; intermaxillaries compressed and ciu'ved 

 at the base. Fins falciform ; the length of the pectoral is more than 

 the distance of the opercular margin from the orbit. The middle 

 and hinder dorsal rays somewhat prolonged, the last extending to 

 the root of the caudal ; ventral inserted a little before the middle of 

 the total length. Caudal fin deeply forked. Scales smaU, adherent. 

 (.Vol.) 



West Indies, Bahia. 



Belone maculata, Poey, Mem. Cub. ii. p. 290, appears to be very 

 closely allied to B. Mans. Poey says that it has the lower jaw longer 

 than the upper, the ventral fin inserted behind the middle of the 

 length of the body, and the caudal moderately emarginate. A series 

 of large blue patches from the middle of the side to the tail, B. Mans 

 would not appear to occur in Cuba, according to Poey, 



