372 SCOMBKID^. 



6. Cybium croockewitii. 



Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Ncderl. Lid. 1850, i. p. IGl, and Verhand. 

 Batar. Genootsch. xxiv. Mukr. p. 37. 



D. 15|3^|YII. A. ^|yil.* 



The height of the body is six times in the total length, the length 

 of the head 6g. The posterior part of the lateral line with an elevated 

 keel ; tail entirely scaly. A broad blackish band from the dorsal to 

 the anal ; the spinous dorsal entirely black. {Bl.) 



Sea of Banka. 



7. Cybium tritor. 

 Cuv. Sf Vol. viii. p. 176. pi. 218. 



I^-l'5|n^,|lX-X. A.^JIX-X. 



Teeth triangular, strongly compressed. The height of the body 

 equals the length of the head, and is 5| in the total. The lateral line 

 is straight to the vertical from the end of the fii'st dorsal, and then 

 descends in a slightly obUque Hne. Above bluish, beneath silvery ; 

 sides with rather indistinct rounded or oblong dark spots. The first 

 dorsal blackish. (Cuv.) 



West coast of Africa. 



8. Cybium maculatum. 



Scomber maculatus, Mitch. T)-ans. Lit. Sf Phil Soc. Neto York, i. 



p. 426. pi. 6. f. 8. 

 Cybium maculatum, Aguss. in Spix, Pise. lirasil. p. 10.3. tab. 60 ; Cuv. 



8,- Val. viii. p. 181 ; Storer, Bod. Juiim. iv. p. 179 ; Dekay, New 



York Fauna, Fishes, p. 108. pi. 73. f. 232 ; Holbr. Ichthyol. S. Carol. 



p. 66. pi. 9. f. 1. 



D. 17 I :|| IX. A. ^ I IX. [Yert. 45.] 



The teeth are rather conical. The lateral line is nearly straight, 

 slightly bent downwards beneath the second dorsal. The length of 

 the head is 5| in the total. Sides mth rounded blackish .spots, 

 irregularl}- arranged. The anterior portion of the first dorsal black. 



Atlantic coasts of North America. 



9, Cybium regale. 



? Shane, Jamaica, ii. p. 284 (Scomber linea et maculis luteia). 

 Corororoca, Marcyr. p. 179. 



Scomber regalis, Bloch, taf. 333 ; Bl. Schn. p. 22 ; Lac^. iv. p. 711, 

 v. p. 789. 



* The frequent tjpograpliical errors vJiDr. Bleeker's papers are sometimes very 

 annoying. In this instance, both the accounts quoted give a formula of tlic fins 



tliat is quite imjjossible in a fish of tliis genus, viz. :— D. ] a I -- I VII. A. ^ I VII., 

 and D. 15 1^1 VII. A. ^ | VIJ. 



