/ h i(& . ~ ft . ft-i/Jt /. 



108 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North .America. 



5. Coryphaena dolfyn, Cuv. 



The ciest is lower, the rays of the dorsal fin are more slender, the ventrals are narrower 

 and shorter, and the scales are smaller, than in the C dorado. Green above, beneath yellow, 

 sprinkled over the entire surface with blue spots ; dorsal fin blue, anal yellow. 



D. 59. P. (0- V. (?). A. 27. C. (?). Length, 3 feet, 3 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



La Coryphene dauphin, Coryphsena dolfyn, Cuv. et Val., ix. p. 305. 



GENUS XXI. TEMNODON, Cuv. 



Has the tail unarmed, the little fins or the detached spines before the anal, 

 as in Seriola ; the first dorsal is fragile and low, the second and the anal 

 are covered with small scales; but the principal character consists in a row 

 of separated, pointed, and cutting teeth at each jaw ; behind the upper ones 

 is a row of smaller teeth, and there are some fine as velvet on the vomer, 

 palate, and tongue. The operculum terminates in two points, and there are 

 seven rays to the gills. 



1. Temnodon saltator, Cuv. 



Body oblong, subcylindrical, compressed. All the upper part of the body of a bluish 

 color ; lower part of the sides, as well as of the abdomen, whitish. Pectorals, second dor- 

 sal, and caudal fins, greenish brown. Venlral and anal fins white, tinged with blue. 



D.7-26. P. 17. V. 6. A. 28. C. 19. Length, 18 inches. 



Massachusetts, Stoker. Connecticut, Ayres, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, De- 



kay. South Carolina, Lin., Cuv. 



Saltatrix, Skipjack, Green-fish, Lin., Catesry's Hist. Carol., n. pi. 14. 



Gasterosleus sailalrix, Skipping Stickleback, Shaw's Gen. Zobl., IV. p. G09. 



Scomber plumbeua, Horse Mackerel, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., I. p. 421, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



Le Temnodon sauleur, Temnodon saltator, Cuv. et Val., ix. p. 225, pi. 260. 



Temnodon saltator, Blue-fish, Storer's Report p. - r >7. 



" " Dekay's Report, p. 130, pi. 2G, fig. 81. 



GENUS XXII. LAMPUGUS, Cuv. 

 Head oblong ; central crest of the forehead much lower than in the Cory- 

 phaena ; dorsal fin equal, and low throughout its whole extent. 



1. Lampugus punctulatus, Cuv. 



Sea-green above the lateral line ; silvery on the sides, with metallic reflections on the 

 opercles. Dark reddish-brown stripes across the head ; a series of distant rounded spots 



