r 



48. POMATOjius. 249 



each side, one along the middle of back, and one on the belly ; a 

 black spot on the tail with yellow centre ; the fii-st dorsal fin black 

 in front. 



Society Islands ; Amboyna ; Red Sea. 



a. Half-grown. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 4. Chilodipterus apogonoides. 



Bleeker, Act. Soc. Nederl. i., Mcaiado en Macassar, p. 37. 



Caudalis forked. Tho interior ridge of the praeoperculum not 

 serrated ; an outer series of larger teeth in the upper jaw, two small 

 canines in the lower, llose-coloured ; a browTiish band round the 

 muzzle ; top of the spinous dorsal blackish. {Bl.) 



Sea of Manado. 



5. Chilodipterus amblyuropterus. 



Bleeker, Boeroe, p. 395. 



Caudalis rounded ; sub- and intcroperculum entire ; with nume- 

 rous blackish longitudinal streaks ; fins immaculate. {Bl.) 

 Sea of Boeroe. 



47. SCOMBROPS. 



Scombrops, Temm. ^- ScMeg. Faun. Japon. p. 118. 



Eye large. Seven branchiostegals ; in the upper jaw two long 

 canine teeth, in the lower a series of canine-like teeth ; teeth on the 

 palatine bones. Two dorsals, the first with eight, the anal fin -vnth 

 three sjjines. No denticulations on the bones of the skull ; oper- 

 culiun with two very feeble points. Scales moderate, very tliin, 

 smooth. Pancreatic caeca in increased number. 



Japanese Sea. 



1. Scombrops chilodipteroides. 



Scombrops, sp., Temm. ^' Schleg. I. c. pi. G3. f. 2. 



cheilodipteroides, Bleek. Verhand. Bat. Geiiootsch. xxv. Jap. p. 9, 



and xxvi. Jap. p. 58. 



D. 8 1^. A. ^. L. lat. 55-60. L. transv. ^. Csc. pylor. 15. 



Spines of the fins very feeble ; lower jaw longest ; caudalis forked ; 

 coloration imifoi-m. 

 Japanese Sea. 



a. Japan. 



48. POMATOMUS. 



Poraatomus, (not Laeip.) Risso, Ichthynl. Nice, p. 387 ; Cuv. ^- Val. 

 ii. p. 171. 



Eye very large. Seven branchiostegals. All the toeth villiform. 



