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the Rev: George Vachell, enables us to give a short account of this species. It differs from 
obtusata in having two points to the gill-cover, and from all the species that have been hitherto 
figured, in its higher shoulder and more concave profile. The specimen does not exhibit this 
peculiarity of form so strongly as the figure, but it is flaccid and may have lost its exact shape. 
Canine teeth acute, subulate and slightly flexuose, like the italic s. Two on each side, 
widely set on the upper jaw, with small lateral teeth pointing backwards, not arranged by 
threes but with intervals, as if one had fallen out here and there. A few tall, compressed, 
lancet-shaped teeth arm the palate-bones, and smaller teeth of the same form stand in a single 
row on the limbs of the lower jaw, their size augmenting gradually as they near the corner of 
the mouth; two canines standing contiguously on the tip of the jaw. No teeth on the small 
chevron ‘of the vomer. The gill-cover shows two small, slender, flat points, the upper one 
being rather the longest. Lateral line almost straight; torulose, 
Hab. Canton. 
SPHYRENA NIGRIPINNIS, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 34. pl. 13. f. 1. 
Hab. Japanese sea. 
SpHyvr=Zna (VULGARIS) Japonica, C. et V. ii. p. 354; Temm. et Schl. 
F. J. Sieb. p. 33. 
This fish was merely indicated in the ‘ Histoire des Poissons’ from a Japanese drawing, 
but the authors of the ‘ Fauna Japonica’ possess a single dried specimen, which they state to 
be in no respect different from the European one. It is distinguished from the Indian Sphy- 
rene by the ventrals being further back than the tips of the pectorals. 
Hab, Japanese sea. (Mediterranean ?) 
Fam. ScoMBRISIDZ. 
ScoMBER ScomBRUS, Lin. Bl. Auct. C. et V. viii. p.6; Temm. et Schl. F. J. 
Sieb. p. 92 ; Icon. Reeves, 163. Chinese name, Ta che, “ Variegated che” 
(Reeves); Fa chi (Bridgem. Chrest. 105). 
Hab. Chinese and Japanese seas. Cape of Good Hope. Atlantic. Mediterranean. Black 
sea (not in the sea of Azof). English channel. North sea and Baltic, 
ScomMBER PNEUMATOPHORUS, “ Laroche,” C, et V. viii. p. 36; Temm. et 
Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 93. pl. 47. f. 1 et 2. 
Hab. Chinese, Japanese, and Australian seas. Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of North 
Africa. 
ScOMBER DELPHINALIS, “ Commerson,” C. et V. viii. p. 53. Icon. Reeves, 
6. 23; Hardw.i.183. Chinese name, Hwa tsze (Birch); Ta éze, “ Flowered 
tze” (Reeves) ; Fa chi (Bridgem. Chrest. 106). 
Hab. China seas and coasts of Madagascar. 
THYNNUS ORIENTALIS, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p, 94. 
Hab. Sea of Japan. 
THYNNUS THUNNINA, C. et V. viii. p. 104. t. 202; Temm. et Schl. F. J. 
Sieb. p. 95. pl. 48. Maguereau a quatre points, Geoftr, Egypt. pl. 24. 
f.3. Japan Fishes, Bib. Banks, fig. 35. 
Hab, Japanese sea. Mediterranean, 
THYNNUS PELAMYS, Lin. (Scomber). C. et V. viii. p. 113. Japan Fishes, 
Bib. Banks, fig. 49. Jcon. G. Forsteri, 230. in Bib. Banks (Atlantic) ; 
_Temm, et Schl. F. J, Sieb. p. 96. pl. 49. - 
Hab, Seaof Japan. Malay Archipelago, Straits of Sunda. Polynesia. South American 
eoasts. Canaries. African coasts, 
Tuynnus sisi, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 97. pl. 50 (sibu). 
_\ Hab. Sea of Japan. 
