468 CABANGID^. 



and nearly equal to the length of the head ; the snout is rather ob- 

 tuse, and the maxillary reaches to below the anterior margin of the 

 orbit. Praeoperculum with the angle rounded and produced back- 

 wards, shghtly denticulated. Caudal forked. Coloration uniform. 

 (GidcJi.) 

 Valparaiso. 



2. Seriolella violacea. 



Chiichen. I. c. p. 241. lam. 7. f. 1. 



D. 8 I ^. A. 2 I ^ (according to the figure). 



Scales smaU. The height of the body is one-fourth of the total 

 length ; the snout is obtuse, and the maxillary reaches to below the 

 anterior portion of the orbit. Prseoperculum with the angle rounded, 

 not produced backwards, denticidated. Caudal slightly emarginate. 

 Coloration uniform. {GfuicJi.) 



Valparaiso. 



3. Seriolella caerulea. 



Gnichen. I. c. p. 242. 



D. 10 I ? 



Scales minute. The height of the body is one-third of the total 

 length; caudal emarginate. Coloration uniform. (Guich.) 

 Island of Juan Fernandez. 



8. SERIOLICHTHYS. 



Serioliehthys, Sleeker, Natuurh. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. 18.54, vi. p. 195. 



Body oblong, compressed, with the abdomen rounded, covered with 

 small cycloid scales. Cleft of the mouth moderate. The first dorsal 

 continuous ; the second and the anal much more developed, with a 

 detached finlet posteriorly ; a pair of spines before the anal, rather 

 remote from the remainder of the fin. Lateral line not armed ; prae- 

 operculum slightly crenulated. The teeth in the jaws, on the vomer 

 and the palatine bones form villiform bands. Branchiostegals seven. 



East Indian- Archipelago ; Polynesia, 



1. Serioliehthys bipinnulatus. 



The Yellow-tail, (Bemieft). 



Seriola bipinnulata, Qmii/ lV Gaim. Voy. Uran. Zool. i. p. .363. pi. 01. f. 3; 



Cur. Regne Anim. III. Poiss. p. 130 ; Jemjns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, 



p. 72. 

 Elagatis bipinnulatus, Benn. Whaling Voyage, ii. p. 283. 

 Serioliehthys bipinnulatus, Bleek. Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. vi. 



p. 196. 



B.7. D.6|1|I. A.2|1|I. 



Each finlet is composed of two rays. The height of the body is 

 five times in the total length, the length of the head 4| ; the upper 



