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jaw in a broad villiform band; an outer series of large, wide-set, coni- 

 cal teeth; teeth of lower jaw in one row, a distinct canine on each side 

 of symphysis; villiform teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids, and 

 tongue. Lateral line with a wide arch, its length f that of straight 

 part; plates not covering all of straight part. Dorsal spines short, 

 rather stout; procumbent spine obsolete. Gill-rakers stout, not very 

 long, 15 below angle. Occipital keel sharp. Eye not very large, 

 longer than snout, 4 in head. Pectoral falcate, longer than head. 

 Breast naked, with a small patch of scales in front of ventrals only. 

 Caudal lobes equal. Head 3|; depth 2J; Lat. 1. (scutes) about 30. 

 D. Ylll-I, 20; A. II-I, 17. Cape Cod to West Indies; common south- 

 ward. 



(Scomber hippos L. Syst. Nat: Carangus Mppos Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1882, 

 433: Caranx defensor Holbrook, Ichth. S. C. 1B60, 87 : Caranx eanimis Gunther, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866, 432: Scomber carangus Blocb, taf. 340: Scomher chrysos MitehW], 

 Trans. Lir. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. i, 4Q4: Carangus chrysos Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Pbila. 1862, 434: Carangus esculentus Grd. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 23: Caranx 

 carangus Giinther, ii, 448.) 



222.— BI.EPIIAKBS Cnvier. 



Cohbler-Jishes. 



(GaZZtt« Lac^p^de, preoccupied: Scyris, Hynnis and Gallichthys Cuv. & Val. : Blepha- 



richthys Gill.) 



(Cnvier, Regne Anim. ii, 1817: type Zeus cUiaris Bloch.) 



Body rhomboid, deep, strongly compressed, more or less completely 

 covered with minute embedded scales, sometimes apparently naked; 

 those on the straight portion of the lateral line enlarged, bony and 

 spinous, as in Caranx, but less developed. Mouth moderate, with 

 bands of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue. First 

 dorsal fin little developed, the spines short and rudimentary, mostly 

 disappearing with age; soft dorsal and anal similar to each other; the 

 first five or six rays of each fin elongate and filiform in the young, be- 

 coming shorter with age; ventral fins elongate in young; on finlets. 

 Caudal peduncle narrow ; the caudal widely forked. Gill-rakers mod- 

 erate, stout.. This genus is not essentially different from Caranx. 

 Warm seas. {fiXs<papnq^ cilium.) 



692. B. criBiitMS (Akerly) Dekay. 



Bluish above, golden yellow below; a dark blotch on opercle; a 

 black spot on orbit above; a black blotch on dorsal and anal in front. 

 Body oval, much compressed, highest at the elevated bases of dorsal 

 and anal fins. Preorbital very deep. Mouth nearly horizontal in the 



