96 Storeys Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



1. Naucrates ductor, L. 



Form somewhat similar to that of the Mackerel. Of a silvery grayish-blue color, darkest 

 on the back, much paler on the belly ; five dark-blue transverse bands pass around the whole 

 body ; indications of two other bands, one on the head, the other on the tail ; pectoral fins 

 clouded with white and blue ; ventrals nearly black. 



D. 4-2G. P. 18. V. 1-5. A. 2-16. C. 17. Length, 12 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



The "Common Pilot-fish." 



Gasterosteus ductor, Lin., Syst. Nat., i. p. 499. 

 Scomber ductor, Bloch, p. 338 



1: ' ; Shaw's Gen. Zobl., iv. p. 5S6. 



Le Pilote common (Naucrates ductor, Cuv., Scomber ductor, Liu.), Cuv. et Val., viii. p. 3!2, pi. 332. 

 Naucrates ductor, Griffith's Cuv . p. 189, pi- 47. fig. I. 



" Wilson, Encycbp. Brit., Art. Ichth., p. 184. 

 Centronotus ductor, Cuv., Jenyns's Brit. Vert., p. 365. 

 Naucrates ductor, Yarrei.l's Brit. Fishes (2d edit), I. p. 170. 

 " " Dekay's Report, p. 113. 



2. Naucrates Noveboracensis, Cuv. 



Four transverse blue bands, and four spines before the dorsal. Opercle not striated. 



D. (?). P. (?). V. (?). A. (?). C. (?). Length, (?). 



Connecticut, Linsley. New York, Mitchilx, Cuv. 



Scomber ductor, Pilot-fish, Mitchii.l, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 424. 

 Le Pilote de New York, Naucrates Noveboracensis, Cuv. et Val., viii. p. 325. 

 Naucrates Noveboracensis, Dekay's Report, p. 112. 



GENUS X. LICHIA, Cuv. 

 Body compressed ; detached spines in front of the dorsal fin, and anterior 

 to these is one inclined forwards ; two spines in front of the anal fin ; tail 

 without lateral keels. 



1. Lichia Carolina, Dekay. 



Body compressed ; its height to its length is nearly as one to two. First rays of the second 

 dorsal and anal fins very large. Upper part of the head and body bluish. Gill-covers of 

 a faint flesh-color mingling with yellowish and silvery reflections on the sides and beneath. 



D. 1,6-25. P. 27. V.l-5. A. 2-20. C 18|. Length, 1 foot. 



New York, Carolina, Dekay. 



Lichia Carolina, Carolina Lichia, Dekay's Report, p. 114, pi. 10, fig. 30.' 



