I 



7. ELACATE. 375 



k. Adult. 



I. Adult. 



m. Adult : skiu. From Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 



71, 0. Half-gi'own : not good state. 



j>. HaLt'-growu : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 



q. Adult female : skeleton. Madeira. From the Haslar Collection. 



7. ELACATE. 

 Elacate, Cuv. Rhpie Anim. ; Cm. ^ Vol. viii. p. 328. 



Body fusiform, covered with very small scales ; head depressed ; 

 cleft of the mouth moderately wide ; no keel on the tail ; the spinous 

 dorsal formed by eight free and smaU spines ; spurious fins none ; 

 ventrals thoracic. Villiform teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the 

 palatine bones. Branchiostegals seven ; air-bladder none. Pyloric 

 appendages dendiitical. 



Indian Seas. Tropical parts of the Atlantic ; Atlantic shores of 

 the United States. 



1. Elacate nigra. 



Gasterosteus canadus, L. Syst. Nat. p. 491. 



Marcf/r. p. 158. 



Scomber uiger, Bl. tab. 337 ; Bl. Schn. p. 85. 



Centronotus gardenii, Laeep. iii. p. 357. 



spinosus, 3Iitch. Trans. Lit. S,- Phil. Soc. Neiv York, i. p. 490. 



pi. 3. f. 9. 

 Pedda-mottab, Russell, ii. p. 39. pi. 153. 

 Elacate pondiceriana, Cuv. i^ Val. viii. p. 329 ; RiJiyp. N. W. Fische, 



p. 43. taf. 12. f. 3. 

 motta, Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 332; Bleeker, Verhand. Batav. Ge- 



nootsch. xxiv. 3Iakr. p. 42. 

 malabarica, Cuv. Sf Val. viii. p. 332 ; Cuv. Reyne Anim. III. Puiss. 



pi. 54. f. 2. 

 atlantica, Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 334. pi. 233 ; Dekay, New York 



Fauna, Fishes, p. 113. pi. 25. f. 77. 

 bivittata, Cuv. iS' Val. viii. p. 338 ; Fatm. Japan. Poiss. p. 104. 



pi. 56 ; Ricliards. Ichih. Chin. p. 269 ; Cantor, Catal. p. 116. 



cauada, Holbr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 95. pi. 14, f. 1. 



? Elacate falcipinnis, Gosse, Jamaica, p. 208. 

 Tbynniis canadensis, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 122. 



D. 8 I 28-35. A. 25-27. Vert. 12/13. 



The height of the body is one-eighth of the total lengtli ; caudal 

 obliquely truncated, with the upper lobe longest. Back and the 

 upper half of the sides bro\vnish- or bluish-black, \\ii\i a light longi- 

 tudinal band from above the orbit to the root of the caudal. 



Indian Seas. Tropical parts of the Atlantic, extending along the 

 shores of the United States. 



a. Fine specimen. New Orleans. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



h. Adult : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. ParneU's Collection. 



0, d. I^alf-gro^v^l : skins. Malayan Peninsula. Fi-om Dr. Cantor's 



Collection, 

 e. Adult : not good state. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



