372 SCOMBEID^. 



6. Cybium croockewitii. 



Bleeher, Natimrk. Tydschr. Necleii. Incl. 1850, i. p. 161, and Verhaml 

 Batar. Genootsch. xxiv. 3Iakr. p. 37. 



D.15|^|YII. A.f^lYIL* 



The height of the body is six times in the total length, the length 

 of the head 6^ . The posterior part of the lateral Hne with an elevated 

 keel ; tail entii'ely scaly. A broad blacldsh band from the dorsal to 

 the anal ; the spinous dorsal entirely black. (BI.) 



Sea of Banka. 



7. Cybium tritor. 

 Ctiv. Sc Vol. viii. p. 176. pi. 218. 



»-15|.-^,|lX-X. A.^JIX-X. 



Teeth triangular, strongly compressed. The height of the body 

 equals the length of the head, and is 5| in the total. The lateral line 

 is straight to the vertical from the end of the fii-st dorsal, and then 

 descends in a sUghtly obhque line. Above bluish, beneath silvery ; 

 sides mth rather indistinct rounded or oblong dark spots. The fii'st 

 dorsal blackish. (Cuv.) 



West coast of Africa. 



8. Cybium maculatum. 



Scomber maculatus, Mitch. Trans. Lit. Sf Phil. Soc. New York, i. 



p. 426. pi. 6. f. 8. 

 Cybium maculatum, Aguss. in Spix, Pise. Brasil. p. 10.3. tab. 60 ; Cuv. 



^- Val. viii. p. 181; Storer, Bost. Journ. iv. p. 179; Dekay, New 



York Faumi, Fishes, p. 108. pi. 73. f. 232 ; Holbr. Ichthyol. S. Carol. 



p. 66. pi. 9. f. 1. 



D. 17 I :^ I IX. A. :^ I IX. [Vert. 45.] 



The teeth are rather conical. The lateral Une is nearly straight, 

 slightly bent downwards beneath the second dorsal. The length of 

 the head is 5| in the total. Sides mth rounded blackish spots, 

 ii'regularly arranged. The anterior portion of the first dorsal black. 



Atlantic coasts of North America. 



9. Cybium regale. 



? Shane, Jamaica, ii. p. 284 (Scomber liuea et maculis luteis). 

 Corororoca, Marcgr. p. 179. 



Scomber regalis, Block, taf. 333 ; Bl. Schn. p. 22 ; Lacep. iv. p. 711, 

 V. p. 789. 



* Tlie frequent typographical errors in Dr. Bleeker's papers are sometimes very 

 annoying. In tliis instance, both the accounts quoted give a formula of the fins 



tliat is quite impossible in a fish of this genus, viz. : — D. 1 •"> p VII. A. — I VII., 

 and D. 15 I ^ I VII. A. - I VII. 



