460 CABANGID^. 



h. Adult : skin. "West Indies. 



c. Fine specimen. 



d. Adult: skeleton. 



C. The height of the body is less than one-half of the total length ; 



^' ^ I 2^2- ^- ii^- Perhaps a species. 



a-c. Adult : bad state. Pacific ? From the Haslar CoUection. 

 d. Adult : skeleton. Pacific ? From the Haslar Collection. 



5. MICROPTERYX. 



Seriola, sp., Cuv. JR^gne Anim. 



Micropteryx, Agass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 104. 



Chloroscombrus, Girard in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1858, p. 168. 



Body much compressed, with the abdomen prominent and tren- 

 chant, covered with small scales ; lateral line not armed or shielded ; 

 prseopercidar margin entire. Cleft of the mouth rather small ; 

 prseorbital of moderate width. The first dorsal continuous, with 

 seven feeble spines ; the second dorsal and anal more developed, 

 without detached finlets ; two anal spines, rather remote from the 

 remainder of the fin. Dentition feeble ; teeth on the vomer arid the 

 palatine bones. Seven branchiostegals ; air-bladder simple, bifur- 

 cate posteriorly. Pyloric appendages in moderate number. 



Atlantic ; Indian Ocean. 



1. Micropteryx chrysums. 



P Renard, i. tab. 6. f. 43 ; Valent. no. 43. 



Scomber chrysurus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 494 ; Bl. Schn. p. 33. 



chloris, Block, taf. 339 ; Bl. Schn. p. 27. 



Micropteryx cosmopolita, Agass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 104. tab. 59. 

 Seriola cosmopolita, Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 219. pi. 259 ; Dekay, New 



York Fau7ia, Fishes, p. 129 ; Holhr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 77. pi. 11. 



f. 1 ; Guichen. Poiss. in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. 117. 

 Scomber latus, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 127. 

 Chloroscombrus cosmopolita, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phikid. 



1858, p. 168. _ S^rZrU OUr^ }*<^. J't^.Jt^.i'.i, - -^- 

 canbbseus, Girard, I. c. 



D. 7 I ^-5^5-^. A.2|^-^^g. Caec. pylor. 10-15. Vert. 10/14. 



Scales small, but very distinct. The height of the body is 3-3^ 

 in the total length, the length of the head 5g. The snout is obtuse, 

 and equal in length to, or rather shorter than the diameter of the 

 eye ; the maxillary reaches to the vertical from the anterior margin 

 of the eye. Abdomen much compressed, trenchant ; the ventrals 

 small. Coloration uniform ; a blackish, squarish blotch on the back 

 of the tail ; ventrals white. 



West coast of Africa ; Atlantic coasts of temperate and tropical 

 America , coast of Pondicherry. 



a. Fine specimen. Niger Expedition. From Mr. Fraser's Collection. 

 h. Half- grown. Ashantee. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



