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surface whitish burnished with pale reflections of purplish, 
metallic greenish, or brassy. Head a trifle hyaline brownish 
above and lips translucent. Spinous dorsal dusky, spines bur- 
nished slightly with silvery. Rayed dorsal and caudal pale 
brownish, becoming dusky marginally, and tips of all three lobes 
blackish. Each caudal lobe submarginally with deep gamboge- 
golden tints. Pectoral, ventral and anal pale or dull brownish. 
A pale plumbeous-dusky blotch on opercle. Iris pale metallic 
brownish. A well-known and abundant food-fish on our coast 
about 1 foot in length. 
Carangus chrysos Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 813. 
Caranx chrysos Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII., 1892, p. 36r- 
Caranx latus Agassiz. 
PLATE 28. 
Jurel. 
Head 246; depth 2%; D. I, VII-I, 21; A. II-I, 18; snout 3% 
in head measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 3%; maxillary 2% ; 
interorbital space 324; second erect dorsal spine 2% ; first dorsal 
ray about 2% ; first anal ray about 2?/,; lower caudal lobe 134 ; 
pectoral 174; ventral 2% ; about 24 denticulate scutes in straight 
portion of lateral line to base of caudal. Body deep, compressed, 
deepest at origins of rayed dorsal and anal. Head rather deep, 
compressed, and upper profile obliquely convex. Snout short. 
Eye circular, anterior. Mouth oblique, mandible apparently pro- 
jecting a little. Maxillary reaching front rim of pupil. Canine 
teeth in front of jaws but little enlarged. Interorbital space con- 
vex. Gill-rakers about 5 + 15, long, slender, about 2 in orbit. 
Breast scaly. Curved part of lateral line about 125 in straight 
part. Spinous dorsal inserted behind origin of pectoral, and 
second erect spine longest, others graduated down. Rayed dor- 
sal inserted nearly midway between posterior margin of pupil 
and base of caudal, anteriorly elevated from first ray which is 
longest. Rayed anal similar, inserted a little more posterior. 
Caudal forked, lobes pointed. Pectoral extending till nearly 
opposite base of third anal spine. Ventrals inserted a trifle be- 
