476 CARANGID^. 



Chorinemus saliens, Cuv. Sf Val. viii. p. 389. 

 palometa, Cuv. ^ Val. viii. p. 392. 



B. 7. D. 4 I i A. 2 I ^. Vert. 10/15. 



The height of the body is 4|, the length of the head 5^ in the 

 total. The upper maxillary is very narrow posteriorly, and reaches 

 beyond the vertical from the posterior rim of the orbit. The length 

 of the intermaxillary is one-half that of the head. The snout is 

 little longer than the diameter of the eye. The infraorbital, situated 

 above the maxillary, is broader than the bone next above it ; none 

 of these bones reach to the anterior praeopercular ridge. Coloration 

 uniform. 



Atlantic coasts of tropical America. 



Var. Oil. saliens, Cuv. The posterior margin of the infraorbital 

 ring is nearly vertical. 



a. Stuffed : 2 feet long. 



Var. Ch. palometa, Cuv. The posterior margin of the infraorbital 

 ring is deeply concave. 



b. Adult. Lake of Maracaibo. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



12. LICHIA. 



Lichia, Cuv. Rkgne Anim. ; Cuv. Sf Val. viii. p. 340. 



Lichia et Tenmodon, sp., Lmve, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 248. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with minute scales ; cleft of the 

 mouth moderate ; forehead not prominent. Two dorsals : the first 

 formed by free spines in small number, and with an anterior hori- 

 zontal spine pointing forwards. Two anal spines, separated from 

 the soft portion. No finlets. Small teeth in the jaws (in L. vadigo 

 of moderate size), on the vomer and the palatine bones. Pseu- 

 dobranchiae absent. Eight or nine branchiostegals ; air-bladder 

 bifurcate posteriorly. Pyloric appendages in great or moderate 

 number. 



Mediterranean ; Atlantic, between Africa and Brazil ; coast of 

 Chile. 



1. Lichia amia. 



Secunda Glauci species. Rondel, p. 254; Aldrov. p. 303. 



Amia, Salv. f. 121 ; Wilhighhy, p. 29(3. 



Glaucus primus, Ray, p. 94. 



Scomber, no. 4, Artedi, Genera, p. 31 (not synon.). 



amia, L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 495 ; Bl. ScJm. p. 34. 



Caranx amia, Lacep. iii. p. 65. 

 Centronotus vadigo, Lacep. iii. p. 318. 



lyzaii, Lacep. iii. p. 316 ; Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 195, and Eur. 



BIcrid. iii. p. 430. 

 Lichia amia, Cuv. Reque Aniin. ; 3Lirtcns, Reise nach Vvnedig, ii. 



