13. TEMNODON. 479 



upper maxillary reaches to the vertical from the posterior margin of 

 the eye. The lateral line is slightly hent above the pectoral. The 

 teeth in the jaws form a single series. The dark colour of the back 

 extends on the sides and forms a series of about twenty vertical 

 blotches. 



Mediterranean ; Sea of Madeira. 



a. Twenty-seven inches long : stuffed. Madeira. From the Rev. 

 R. T. Lowe's Collection. 



4. LicMa calcar. 



Scomber calcar, Block, taf. 336. f. 2 ; Bl, Schn. p. 27. 

 Centronotus calcar, Lacep. iv. p. 713. 

 Lichia calcar, Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 366. 



The height of the body is 3 j in the total length ; ventrals rather 

 small. Coloration uniform. 



A doubtful species from the coast of Guinea : perhaps a bad re- 

 presentation of Chorinemus saliens. 



5. Lichia albacora. 



Cruich. in Gay, Hist. Chil. Zool. ii. p. 231. 



The first dorsal with three spines only ; ventrals long aud pointed. 

 Coloration uniform. (Ghxich.) 

 Coast of Chile. 



13. TEIOTODON. 



Tenmodon, Cuv, ^- Val. ix. p. 225. 



Body oblong, compressed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate 

 size ; cleft of the mouth rather wide. Jaivs with a series of strong 

 teeth ; teeth on the vomer and the palatine bones. Prseoperculum with 

 some slight denticulations. The first dorsal with eight feeble spines, 

 continuous; the second and the anal are more developed, covered with 

 scales, without detached finlets ; there are one or two small spines 

 before the anal. Lateral line not armed or shielded. Branchiostegals 

 seven ; air-bladder simple. Pyloric appendages in great number. 



Inhabitants of nearly all the temperate and tropical seas. 



1. Temnodon saltator. 



Skipjack, Catesby, Hist. Nat. Carol, ii. p. 14. t. 14. 

 Gasterosteus saltatrix, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 491 ; Sfiaw, Zool. iv. p. 609. 

 Scomber saltator, Bl. Schn. p. 35. 

 Pomatomus skib, Lacep. iv. p. 436. pi. 8. f. 3. 

 Chilodipterus heptacanthus, Lacep. lii. p. 542. pi. 21. f. 3 (bad). 

 Scomber plumbeus, Mitch. Tram. Lit. 8f Phil. Soc. New York, i. 

 p. 424 pi. 4. f. 1. 



