:570 



SCOMBEIDiE. 



dorsal and anal. The greater portion of the body naked, or with 

 very small scales, which do not form a corslet. Teeth strong ; villi- 

 form teeth on the vomer and the palatine bones. A longitudinal 

 keel on each side of the tail. Seven branchiostegals. Air-bladder 

 present. 



Atlantic ; Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 



1. Cybiuin commersonii. 



Scomber commersouii, Laceu. ii. p. 600. pi. 20. f. 1 : Shaw, Zool. iv. 



p. 589. pi. 85. 



maciilosus, SJiaw, Nat. Misc. no. 982, and Zool. iv. p. 592. 



EusseJl, pi. 135. 



Cybium commersonii, Cm: Hlgne Anim. ; Riipp. Atl Fischc, p. 94. 



taf. 25. f. 1 ; Cur. 4" Val. viii'. p. 165 ; Miipp. N. IF. Fische, p. 41 ; 



Hi'c/uirds. Ichth. Chin. p. 268; Cantor, Catal. p. 108. 

 kouam, Blwh. Mahr. p. 357. 



D. IG I ^ I IX-X. A. ^ I IX-X. 



Teeth triangidar, strongly compressed, close together. The lieight 

 of the body is 5|-7 in the total length, the length of the head 4-5 

 times. Lateral line cm'ved under the fh'st finlet. Above bluish, 

 beneath silvery; back and sides with numerous oblong, vertical 

 brownish spots. 



From the Eastern and Southern coasts of Africa, through aU the 

 Indian Seas. 



a. Adult : skin. Malayan Peninsida. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 h. Four feet long : stuffed. Cape Seas. Piirchased of Sir A. Smith. 



2. Cybium lineolatum. 



Menarcl, i. 7. 53. 



Cybium lineolatum, Cuv. ^ Val. viii. p. 170 ; Belanger, Voy. p. 366. 



pi. 2. f. 1 ; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxiv. p. 40 ; Cantor, 



Catal. p. 110. 



D. 16 I 16 I IX. A. ^ I X. 



The teeth are triangidar, strongly compressed. Tlic height of the 

 body is 6| in the total length, the length of the head five times. 

 Above blue, beneath silvery ; sides with numerous short, blackish, 

 longitudinal streaks. 



East Indian Seas. 



a. HaK- grown : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Col- 

 lection. 



4. Cybiiun acervum, Cuv. ^' Val. viii., p. 186. — Caribbean Sea. 



5. immaculatum, Cuv.§~ Val. viii. p. 191. — Caribbean Sea. 



6. solandri, Cuv. if- Val. viii. p. 192. — Hub.^. 



7. Apoleclus immimis, ^('«w. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. 1831, p. 146; Apo- 



dontis immunis, Benn. I. c. p. 169. — West coast of Africa. 



