42G CAKAXGIU.K. 



muroadsi, the vomer of the former being provided with a longitudinal 

 strip of minute teeth, besides the transverse band, which alone is 

 present in the Japanese species. 



4. Caranx macarellus. 



? Curvata pinima, 3Iarc(/r. p. I'jO*. 

 Caranx macarellu Cuv. i^~ Vul. ix. p. 40. 



D. 8 I i- 1 1 A. 2 I i; 1 1. L. lat. 25. 



The height of the body is 6| in the total length, the length of the 

 head 5|. The lateral line is nearly straight, covered anteriorly with 

 a scries of round scales, posteriorly with twenty-five small plates. 

 Opercular spot small. {Cuv.) 



Pyloric appendages numerous. 



Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



5. Caranx punctatus. 



Scomber hippos, Mitch. Trans. Lit. df Phil. Soc. New York, i. pi. 5. 



f. 5, cop. by Uekca/, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 122. pi. 73. f. 2.'i3 



(bad). 

 Caranx punctatus, Af/ass. Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 108. tab. 50 a. f. 2 ; 



Cue. i^- Val. ix. p. ."38. 

 h Caranx suareus, (Pisso) Can. l^ Vul. ix. p. o;J. 



D. 8 U 1 1. A. 2 U i I. L. lat. 40. 



The teeth of the jaws arc minute, and form a single series ; teeth 

 on the vomer and the palatine bones, none on the tongue. The 

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

 head 4^. Breast scaly ; the lateral line is a little bent downwards, 

 and becomes straight in the vertical from the eighth dorsal si)ine ; 

 the anterior portion is covered with fifty rather small scales, the 

 posterior with forty-six well-developed plates ; there is a series of 

 twelve very distinct pores, visible along the anterior part of the 

 lateral line. The snout has the jaws of e(jual length ; it is pointed, 

 and longer than the diameter of the eye, which equals the width 

 between the orbits ; the upper maxillary reaches nearly to the ver- 

 tical from the anterior margin of the eye. Opercular spot indistinct. 



From the West Indies to New York. (Mediterranean ?) 



a. Half-grown. From the Haslar Collection. 



The fish called Caranx jninctatinf by Cuvier, is the same to which 

 this name had been given by M. Agassiz in 1829. 



0. Caranx scombrinus. 

 Valenc. Voy. Venus, IrlUhyol. p. 3.'>2. pi. 7. i". 1. 



D. 9 1^1 1. A. 2 I 23 I T. L. lat. 42. 

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

 * 'J'liis is <|iiolcd l\v M. Agassiz to ('iritH.v pumfd' n. 



