7. liLACATE. -JTo 



k. Adult. 



I. Adult. 



m. Adult : skin. From Mr. Yarrcll's Collection. 



n, 0. Half-grown : not good state. 



p. Half-grown : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 



q. Adult female: .skeleton. Madeira. From the Haslar Collection. 



7. ELACATE. 

 Elacate, Cm: Rk/ne Anim. ; Cuv. <^- Val. viii. p. 328. 



Body fusiform, covered with very small scales ; head depressed ; 

 cleft of the mouth moderately -svidc ; no keel on the tail ; the spinous 

 dorsal formed by eight free and small spines ; spurious lins nou(> ; 

 ventrals thoracic. ViUiform teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the 

 palatine bones. Branchiostcgals seven ; air-bladder none. Pyloric 

 appendages dendritical. 



Indian Seas. Tropical parts of the Atlantic ; Atlantic shoi-es of 

 the United States. 



1. Elacate nigra. 



Gasterosteus canadus, L. Si/sf. Nat. p. 491. 



3Iarc(jr. p. 158. 



Scomber niger, Bl. tab. 3.37 ; BI. Schn. p. 35. 



Centronotus gardcnii, Laccp. iii. p. ."»57. 



spinosus, Mitch. Trans. Lit. iS,- Phil. Sue. New York, i. p. 4U0. 



pi. 3. f. U. 

 Pedda-mottab, Mifssell, ii. p. 39. pi. 153. 

 Elacate pondiceriana, Car. l^ Val. viii. p. 329 ; liiipp. N. IF. Fischr, 



p. 43. taf. 12. f. 3. 

 motta, Cm: ^- Val. viii. p. 332; Blecker, Verhand. Batai: Ge- 



noutscJi. xxiv. Mahr. p. 42. 

 malabavica, Cm: ^- Val. viii. p. 332 ; Cm: Rhjnc Anim. III. Pui.fs. 



pi. 54. i: 2. 



atlantica, Car. Sf Val. viii. p. 334. pi. 233 ; Dekatj, New York 



Faioia, Fishes, p. 113. pi. 25. f. 77. 

 bivittala, Cm: S,- Val. viii. p. 338 ; Fami. Japoit. Poiss. p. 104. 



pb 5G; liichards. Ichth. Chin. p. 209; Cantor, Catal. p. 110. 



Canada, Holh: Ichth. S. Carol, p. 95. pi. 14. f. 1. 



? Elacate falcipinnis, Gosse, Jamaica, p. 208. 

 Tbynnus canadensis, Gronov. Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 122. 



D. 8 I 28-35. A. 25-27. Vert. 12/13. 



The height of the body is one-eighth of the total length ; caudal 

 obliquely truncated, with the upper lobe longest, liack and the 

 ujiper half of the sides brownish- or bluish-black, with a light longi- 

 tudinal band from above the orbit to the root of the caudal. 



Indian Seas. Tropical parts of the Atlantic, extending along the 

 shores of the United States. 



a. Fine specimen. New Orleans. Purchased of ilr. Cuming. 

 h. Adult : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Parncirs Collection, 

 r, d. Half-grown : skins. ^lalayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's 



Collection . 

 f. .Vdult : not good state. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



