•MO 



SCOMBBIDjE. 



dorsal and anal. The greater portion of the body naked, or with 

 very small scales, »Avhich do not form a corslet. Teeth strong ; \dlli- 

 fonn teeth on the vomer and the palatine bones. A longitudinal 

 keel on each side of the tail. Seven branchiostegals. Air-bladder 

 present. 



Atlantic ; Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 



1 . Cybium commersonii. 



Scomber commevsouii, Larrp. ii. p. GOO. pi. 20. f. 1 ; Shaw, Zool. iv. 



p. .589. pi. 85. 



maculosus, Sliaiv, Nai. Misc. no. 982, and Zool. iv. p. 592. 



BusseU, pi. 135. 



C-\ bium commersonii, Cuv. Regno A)nm. : Rilpp. Atl. Fisclic, p. 94. 

 "taf. 25. f. 1 ; Cta: Sf Vd. viii. p. 105 ; Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 41; 



Richanh. Ichth. Chin. p. 208 ; Cantor, Catal. p. 108. 

 — — kouam, Bleck. Makr. p. 357. 



D. 16|^|IX-X. A.^|IX-X. 



Teeth triangular, strongly compressed, close together. The height 

 of the body is 5|-7 in the total length, the length of the head 4-5 

 times. Lateral lino curved under the fii'st finlet. Above bluish, 

 beneath silvery; back and sides with numerous oblong, vertical 

 brownish spots. 



From the Eastern and Southern coasts of Africa, through all the 

 Indian Seas. 



a. Adu.lt : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 h. Four feet long : stuffed. Cape Seas. Purchased of Sir A. Smith. 



2. Cybium lineolatum. 

 Renard, i. 7. 53. 

 Cybium lineolatum, Cuv. ^ Vul. viii. p. 170; Belanger, Voy. p. 366. 



pi. 2. f. 1 ; Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. x.\iv. p. 40; Cantor, 



Catal. p. 110. 



D. IG I IG I IX. A.:^|X. 



The teeth are triang-ular, strongly compressed. The height of the 

 body is G^ in the total length, the length of the head five times. 

 Above blue, beneath silvery ; sides Avith numerous short, blackish, 

 longitudinal streaks. 



East Indian Seas. 



a. Half-grown : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Col- 

 lection. 



4. Cybium acervum, Cuv. cf- Val. viii. p. 180. — Caribbean Sea. 

 6. immaculatum, Cuv.Sf Val. viii. p. lUl. — Caribbean Sea. 



6. solandri, Cuv. S; Val. viii. p. I'A—Ha/i.? 



7. Apolcctus imniunis, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Sue. i. 18111, p. 14(> ; .\po- 



donlis imraiinis, Bcnn. I. c. p. 169. — West coast of A\ricn. 



