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Head 4a depthsa ys DM XIX, Vv, Teese A. iV, 4, 1, 8; 
snout 2% in head; eye 6% ; maxillary 14 ; interorbital space 3% ; 
pectoral 134; least depth of caudal peduncle 4%; teeth 21-32. 
Body elongate, strongly compressed, and profiles similarly con- 
vex. Head compressed, pointed. Eye circular, anterior. Mouth 
large, curved a little obliquely. Maxillary reaching a little past 
orbit, and its distal expansion about */, of same. Teeth large, 
compressed and sharp. Posterior nostril nearer eye than an- 
terior, deeply slit-like, and anterior near last fourth in length of 
snout. Interorbital space convex. Gill-rakers 3-++10, longest 
about #/; of orbit. Scales very fine, imbedded, behind eye en- 
larged, and on cheek lanceolate. Lateral line undulated, and 
forming a broad scaly keel on side of caudal peduncle. Spinous 
dorsal inserted nearer tip of snout than origin of caudal, or a 
little behind that of pectoral. Rayed dorsal inserted a little nearer 
base of caudal than tip of snout, anteriorly high and forming a 
lobe graduated down from first branched rays. Anal similar, in- 
serted a little more posterior. Finlets uniform. Caudal widely 
lunate, base of each lobe with a keel. Pectoral short, about half 
way to rayed dorsal. Ventral smaller, and inserted about opposite 
origin of spinous dorsal. Color bluish above, and everywhere 
more or less silvered. Sides with elliptical blotches of dull orange. 
Spinous dorsal whitish at base, black marginally. Rayed dorsal 
yellowish, margins black. Anal white. Caudal dusky. Pectoral 
black posteriorly, from side yellowish with black borders. Length 
17 inches. Beesley’s Point. 
Among the finest of food-fishes, reaching a weight of g pounds. 
On our coast it is rather irregular, in schools of small size. 
Cybium maculatum Baird, oth An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 
345. 
Apodontis maculatus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 812, evi- 
dently from Baird. 
Scomberomorus maculatus Bean, Bull. U. $. F. Com., VII, 
1887, p. 131.—Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 370. 
Scomber dekayi Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 812. 
