460 CAEANGID^. 



b. Adult : skin. West Indies. 



c. Fine specimen. 



d. Adult: skeleton. 



C. The height of the body is less than one-half of the total length ; 



^- ^ I 2^22- ^- WTi- Perhaps a species. 



a-c. Adult : bad state. Pacific ? From the Haslar Collection. 

 d. Adult : skeleton. Pacific ? From the Haslar Collection. 



5. MICROPTERYX. 



Seriola, sp., Cur. Rkpie Anim. 



Micropterpc, Ac/ass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 104. 



Cliloroscombrus, Girard in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1858, p. 168. 



Body much compressed, with the abdomen prominent and tren- 

 chant, covered with small scales ; lateral line not armed or shielded ; 

 prseopercvdar margin entire. Cleft of the mouth rather small ; 

 praeorbital of moderate width. The first dorsal continuous, with 

 seven feeble spines ; the second dorsal and anal more developed, 

 without detached finlets ; two anal spines, rather remote from the 

 remainder of the fin. Dentition feeble ; teeth on the vomer and the 

 palatine bones. Seven branchiostegals ; air-bladder simple, bifur- 

 cate posteriorly. Pyloric appendages in moderate number. 



Atlantic ; Indian Ocean. 



1. Micropteryx chrysurus. 



? Renard, i. tab. 6. f. 43 ; Valent. no. 43. 



Scomber chrj'surus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 494 ; Bl. Schn. p. 33. 



chloris, Block, taf. 339 ; Bl. Schn. p. 27. 



Micropteryx cosmopolita, Ac/ass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 104. tab. 59. 

 Seriola cosmopolita, Cuv. i^- Val. ix. p. 219. pi. 259 ; Dekay, New 



York Fauna, Fishes, p. 129 ; Holhr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 77. pi. 11. 



f. 1 ; Gidehen. Poiss. in Ramon de la Sae/ra, Hist. Cuba, p. 117. 

 Scomber latus, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 127. 

 Chloroscombrus cosmopolita, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sc. Philad, 



1858, p. 168. 

 caribbseus, Girard, I. c. 



T).1\^^. ^.2\-^U- C8DC. pylor. 10-15. Vert. 10/14. 



Scales small, but very distinct. The height of the body is S-Sj 

 iu the total length, the length of the head 5j. The snout is obtuse, 

 and equal in length to, or rather shorter than the diameter of the 

 eye ; the maxillary reaches to the vertical from the anterior margin 

 of the eye. Abdomen much compressed, trenchant ; the ventrals 

 small. Coloration uniform ; a blackish, squarish blotch on the back 

 of the tail ; ventrals white. 



West coast of Africa ; Atlantic coasts of temperate and tropical 

 America ; coast of Pondicherry. 



a. Fine specimen. Niger Expedition. From Mr. Fraser's Collection. 



b. Half- grown. Ashantee. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



