360 SCOMBIIIDJE. 



5. Scomber loo. 



Cui\ ^ Val. viii. p. 52; Bleek. Verh. Bat. Genootsch. xxiv. 3Iakr. p. 35; 

 Less. Vol/. Coq. Zool. Poiss. p. 166. pi. 33 ; [ '^Richards, Ann. c^- May. 

 Nat. Hist. 1843, xi. p. 23.] 



D. 9-10 I 11-12 I V. A. 1 I -i- 1 V. 



Scales small, very conspicuous. The height of the body is 4|-4A 

 in the total length, the length of the head 4|-4|. Above bluish- 

 green, beneath silvery ; back with round blackish spots along the 

 base of the fins. Dorsal fins with a black margin. 



From the Molucca Sea to Polynesia. 



6. Scomber moluccensis. 



Bleeker, Acta Soc. Scient. Indo-Nederl. i. Amhoina, p. 40. 

 D. 9 I 10 1 V. A. 1 1 g^L. I V-YI. 



Scales very small, conspicuous. The height of the body is 5-5^ 

 in the total length, the length of the head 4:|-4|-. Above greenish, 

 with round greenish-violet spots, arranged in tAvo or three longitu- 

 dinal series ; sides and belly silvery ; fins immaculate. {Bl.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



This species is probably identical with Sc. loo. 



7. Scomber chrysozonus. 

 Mppell, N. W. Fische, p. 37. tab. 11. f. 1. 



D. 9 I ^ I V. A. :! I V, 



Scales small, conspicuous. The height of the body is foitr times 

 in the total length, the length of the head 3|. Bluish-green, vertex 

 spotted with black ; two metallic shining spots behind each ej'e, dis- 

 appearing after death. Back and sides mth longitudinal stripes ; two 

 round blackish spots behind the pectoral ; a series of four or five 

 black spots along the base of the spinous dorsal. (Biipp.) 



Red Sea. 



8. Scomber kanagurta. 



Kanagurta, Riissell, ii. p. 21. pi. 136. 



Scomber kanagurta, Cuv. Rbgne Anim. ; Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 9.3, and 

 iV. W. Fische, p. 37; Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 49; Bleeker, Verhand. 

 Batav. Genootsch. xxiv. Makr. p. 35 ; Peters, Wieqin. Arch. 1855, 

 p. 245. v , , y 



D. 8-9 1 3?^ I V. A. 1 1 1 1 V. Vert. ||. 



Scales small. The height of the body is four times in the total 

 length, the length of the head Sj. Above uniform greenish, on the 

 sides and the beUy silvery. An air-bladder. 



Red Sea ; Indian Seas. 



