Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North .Imcrica. 103 



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

 Gulf of Mexico, Cuv. 



Le Caranx a bande, Caranx fasciatus, Cuv. et Vai.., ix. p. 70. 

 This is described by Cuvier from a figure. 



11. Caranx defensor, Dekay. -iSla.; 



Elliptical, much compressed. A recumbent spine before the dorsal. No finlet. liack 

 bluish, with a resplendent golden yellow on the sides. Ventrals, anal, and caudal, wax- 

 yellow ; the lips of the latter dusky. A dark round spot on the posterior margin of the 

 opercle ; another on the inner base of the pectoral, and occasionally a short, black, vertical bar 

 across the middle of the pectoral fin. Dorsals brownish above. Chin satin-white. The 

 straight portion of the lateral line furnished with twenty-five bony plates, commencing ob- 

 scurely at first, but becoming more elevated, and terminating in acute triangular spines, di- 

 rected backwards. 



D. 7,1 -20. P. 20. V. 1-5. A. 2-17. C. 19|. Length, 9 inches. 

 New York, Dekay. 



Caranx defensor Southern Caranx, Dekay's Report, p. 120, pi. 24, fig. 72. 



GENUS XVI. BLEPHARIS, Cuv. 

 Body much compressed, trenchant, with a rapidly declivous front. Small 

 and nearly concealed spines in advance of the dorsal fin. Anterior rays of 

 the dorsal and anal fins prolonged into very long filaments. Ventrals elongated. 



1. Blephaiis crinitus, Akerly. 



Body almost circular, much compressed, scaleless. Bluish above, white beneath. Dor- 

 sal fin with seven filamentous, and eleven bifid rays. The first filamentous ray much the 

 longest, the others successively shorter ; the bifid portion low and subequal. 



D. 18. P. 17. V. (?)■ A. 10. C. (?)■ Length, 5.5. 



Connecticut, Linsley. New York, Akerly. 



rinitus, Hair I ! x. Journ. Sc., h. p. 144, pi. 



laria crinilus, i 



2. Blephaiis sutor, Cuv. 



Rhomboidal ; ils length, including the caudal fin, is equal to once and a third its height. 

 Plumbeous above, silvery upon the sides of the head, sides, and abdomen. Yellow spots 

 upon the operculum. Fins of a yellowish brown. In immature specimens arc seen four 

 wide, vertical, dark bands upon the back. 



