48. POMATOMUS. 249 



each side, one along the middle of back, and one on the belly ; a 

 black :3pot on the tail with yellow centre ; the first 'lorsal fin blsick 

 in front. 



Society Islands ; Amboyna ; Red Sea. 



a. Half-grown. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



4. Chilodiptems apogonoides. 



Sleeker, Act. Soc. Nederl. i., Manado en Macassar, p. 37. 



Caudalis forked. The interior ridge of the praeoperculum not 

 serrated ; an outer series of larger teeth in the upper jaw, two small 

 canines in the lower. Rose-coloured ; a brownish band round the 

 muzzle ; top of the spinous dorsal blackish. {Bl.) 



Sea of Manado. 



5. Chilodiptems amblyuropterus. 



Sleeker, Boeroe, p. 395. 



Caudalis rounded ; sub- and interoperculum entire ; with nume- 

 rous blackish longitudinal streaks ; fins immaculate. (Bl.) 

 Sea of Boeroe. 



47. SCOMBROPS. 



Scombrops, Temm. 8f Schleg. Faun. Japon^ p. 118. 



Eye larg«. Seven branchiostegals ; in the upper jaw two long 

 canine teeth, in the lower a series of canine-like teeth ; teeth on the 

 palatine bones. Two dorsals, the first with eight, the anal fin with 

 three spines. No denticulations on the bones of the skull ; oper- 

 culum with two very feeble points. Scales moderate, very thin, 

 smooth. Pancreatic caeca in increased number. 



Japanese Sea. 



1. Scombrops chilodipteroides. 



Scombrops, sp., Temm. 8f Schleg. I. c. pi. 63. f. 2. 



cheilodipteroides, BUek. Ven'hand. Bat. Qenootsch. xxv. Jap. p. 9, 



and xxvi. Jap. p. 58. 



D. 8 1^. A. ^. L. lat. 55-60. L. transv. ^. Cac. pylor. 15. 



Spines of the fins very feeble ; lower jaw longest ; caudalis forked ; 

 coloration uniform. 

 Japanese Sea. 



a. Japan. 



48. POMATOMUS. 



Pomatomua, (not Lae6p.) Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 387 : Cuv. 4* Val. 

 ii. p. 171. 



Eye very large. Seven branchiostegals. All the teeth -volliform. 



