1. SCOMBER. 361 



9. Scomber brachysoma. 

 Bleeker, Makr. p. 356. 



D. 10 I ;i I V. A. 1 1 -1 1 V. 



Scales small, conspicuous. The height of the body is a little more 

 than three times in the total length, the length of the head 3|. 

 Teeth of the jaws inconspicuous. Above greenish ; beneath silvery, 

 immaculate. {Bl.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



10. Scomber colias. 



The Spanish Mackerel. 



? Colias, Plin. xxxii. c. 11 ; Bellon. p. 202 ; Rondel, p. 235 ; Sah. f. 242. 



Colias rondeletii, Ray, Syn. p. 59. 



Scomber colias, L. Gm. i. p. 1329 ; Bl. Schn. p. 22 ; Lacep. iv. pp. 39, 



40; Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 171, and Eur. Merid iii. p. 413; Cur. 



Sf Val. viii. p. 39. pi. 209 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 100 ; Yarrell, Brit. 



Fishes, i. p. 148 ; Storer, Fishes of 3Iassach. p. 45 ; Dckay, New 



York Fauna, Fishes, p. 104. pi. 11. f. 33; Loice, Proceed. Z'ool. Soc. 



1850, p. 248. 

 maculatus, Couch, Mag. Nat. Hist. v. p. 22. f. 8. 



D. 7|3^|V. A. l|:l|V. Vert. 31. 



Scales of the pectoral region conspicuously larger than the others. 

 Back with ii-regular reticulated dark lines ; sides with greyish spots. 

 An air-bladder. 



Mediterranean ; South coasts of England and Ireland ; Atlantic 

 coasts of Em-ope and of the United States. 



a. Fine specimen. Lisbon. Presented by the Eev. R. T. Lowe. 

 11. Scomber microlepidotus. 



Riippell, N. W. Fische, p. 38. taf. 11. f. 2 ; Cantor, Catal. p. 105. 

 D. 10 I 12 I V. A.^|V. 



Scales minute, those of the pectoral region a little larger. The 

 height of the body is 4^ in the total length, and equals the length 

 of the head; caudal fin smaU. Two or three series of indistinct 

 brownish dots along the vertex and the back. 



Ecd Sea ; Seas of Pinang and China. 



a. Adult. China. Presented by J. E. Reeves, Esq. 



b. Young : skin. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



12. Scomber tapeinocephalus. 



Bleeker, Japan, p. 407, and Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxvi. Japan, 

 p. 97. pi. 7. f. 2. 



D. 11 I ^ I V-VI. A. 1 I ^ I V-VI. 



Scales small, conspicuous, those of the pectoral region larger than 

 the others. The height of the body is seven times in the total length, 



