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till level with eye, line of demarcation bounded by a deep amber 
longitudinal band. extending from eye to caudal peduncle, most 
distinct on upper costal region. Sides below and lower surface 
_ amber or citron-yellowish. Cheek and thorax more or less 
brassy, also opercle. Upper surface of head warm brownish, 
snout and lore included. Lips pale brownish. Maxillary pos- 
teriorly, and mandible below, yellowish. Iris warm orange- 
brown, narrow ring of orange encircling pupil. Membranes of 
spinous dorsal warm dusky, spines more pale olive-yellowish 
with dusky front margins. Rayed dorsal olivaceous-brown of 
more or less warm shade, submarginally warm terracotta-brown 
and edge of fin dusky. Caudal pale warm brownish basally, 
outer ends of each lobe grayish with submarginal band of red on 
median rays of fin and fading into dilute olivaceous-yellow above 
and below. Posterior margin of caudal dusky. Pectoral pink- 
ish, becoming dusky along upper margin. Ventral with bases of 
rays and axillary region milky-white, otherwise with more or 
less orange-dusky, especially distally, and each ray and spine 
yellowish. Anal yellowish-brown, base of fin pale brown with 
submarginal orange tint and edge of fin pale or whitish. Lower 
surface of caudal peduncle whitish. About 5 broad indistinct 
transverse bands of amber-yellow on side of body, first at base of 
pectoral, second at tip of pectoral, third midway between tip of 
pectoral and front of anal, fourth over middle of base of anal, 
fifth at posterior base of, and possibly a sixth, at base of caudal. 
Peritoneum silvery. Inside of gill-opening whitish. Length 
10% inches. 
I examined a portion of a large example taken August 10, 
1906, in the Sea Isle City pounds. It was said to have weighed 
80 pounds. 
Seriola lalandi Fowler, Science, XXIV, 1906, November goth, 
p. 596. 
Genus ‘TRACHUROPS Gill. 
The Big Eyed Scads. 
