1. SCOMBER. 357 



continuous, with feeble spines, separated from the second by an in- 

 terspace ; five or six spurious tins behind the dorsal and anal fins. 

 Scales very small and equally covering- the body. Teeth small, in 

 the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. Two slight ridges 

 on each side of the root of the caudal. Seven brancliiostegals. Aii'- 

 bladder simple, sometimes absent. Pyloric appendages in exceed- 

 ingly great number. 



Inhabitants of nearly all the temperate and tropical seas ; not yet 

 found on the coasts of the temperate parts of South America. 



1 . Scomber scomber. 



The Maclcerel. Die Makreele. 



SKo'/x/Spor, Aristot. vi. c. 17, viii. c. 12 & 1.3, ix. c. 2; ^^lian. xiv. 



cap. 1; Athen.m. 121, vii. 321; Oppian. Halieiit. i. fol. 108, 109. 

 Scomber, Odd. Halieut. v. 94 ; Plin. ix. c. 15, xxxi. c. 8, xxxii. c. 11 ; 



Martial, iii. ep. 2, iv. ep. 86, xiii. ep. 1 ; Rundel. viii. c. 7. p. 234 ; 



Salvian. I 239. b. 241, 242 ; Gesner, fol. 57 ; Schonev. p. 66 ; Aldrov. 



ii. c. 53. p. 270 ; Willuyhby, p. 181. tab. M. 3 ; Ray, p. 58 ; kStrihn, 



Sondm. ii. p. 295. 

 Scomber, no. 1, Artedi, Genera, p. 30; Species, p. 68. 

 scomber (scombrus), L. Syst. i. p. 492 ; Brihui. p. 68; Bl. taf. 54: 



£/. Schn. p. 24; Lacep. iii. p. 24; Do)wi\ Brit. Fishes, v. pi. 120; 



Penn. Brit. Zuol. iii. p. 332. pi. 51 ; Pall. Zoofir. Bosso-Asiat. iii. 



p. 215; Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 170, and Eur. 3Ier'id. iii. p. 412 ; 3Iar- 



tcns, Reise nacli Venediy, ii. p. 432 ; Cur. Sf Val. viii. p. 6 ; Fries och 



Ekstrd7n, Skand. FisL p. 128. tab. 29; Parn. Fishes Frith of Forth, 



p. 50 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, 2ud edit. i. p. 137 ; Cur. Regne Anim. 



III. Poiss. pi. 45. f. 1; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Russ. Merid. iii. p. 391 ; 



Owen, Osteoloy. Gated, i. p. 61. 

 Scomber, sp., Grotiov. Zoophyl. no. 304. 

 Pelamys, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. v. p. 12. no. 5. tab. 4. f. 1. 

 Duhamel, Peches, sect. vii. pi. 1. f. 1 ; Lotc, Fauna Oread, p. 218 ; 



Cetti, Hist. Nat. Sard. iii. p. 190. 

 Scomber verualis, Mitch. Trans. Lit. 4' Phil. Soc. Ncfc York, i. p. 423 ; 



Cuv. S,- Val. \-iii. p. 48; Sforer, Fi^h. diassach. p. 41; Vckay, New 



York Fauna, Fishes, p. 101. pi. 12. f. 34 ; Richards. Faun. Bar. 



Amer. Fishes, p. 80 (Scomber grex et vernalis). 

 Cordylus scombrus, Gronar. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 163. 



D. 11 (-14) I i; I V. A. 1 I -jif I V. Vert. 14/17. 



Scales exceedingly smaU. The height of the body is 6g in the 

 total length, the length of the head 4| ; the diameter of the eye is 

 one-fifth of the latter. Back bluish, with about thirty waving bLack 

 transverse streaks. Air-bladder none. 



From the Mediterranean along all the coasts of Europe, crossing 

 the Atlantic, and found on the American coasts of the same latitudes. 



«. Half-grown. Dalmatia. 



6. Half-grown. Lisbon. 



c, cl. Fine specimens. English coast. Purchased. 



3. Scomber am-atus, Houft. M6m. Harl. sx. p. 331 ; C. # V. viii. p. 5.5.— Japan. 



4. cliego, Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. So. i. 18.'i7. p. 92.— I regi-cl 



that I have not had access to tliis journal. 



5. piuK-tatus, Couch, Sep. Penz. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1848, pi. 3. f. 1, cop. bv 



Yarr. Brit. Fish, 3rd edit. ii. p. 207.— Cornish coast. 



