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31. NEPTONEMUS BRAMA. Gunth. CM. 



"Warehou, 



If. bmma, Giintli., II., 390. 



D. 7,|.j^; A. -^; L. Lat., 88; L. trans., 16/25. 



Length three and tliree-foni-tlis that of the head, or four and three- 

 fourths that of the height ; diameter of eye equal to length of snout ; 

 top of the head fleshy, upper profile convex ; prseoperculum emarginate ; 

 operculvini with an obtuse point over the shoulder ; pectorals })ointed, 

 reaching to third ray of the anal ; caudal forked ; lateral line curved to 

 the end of the dorsal, thence straight. 



Back and sides greenish silvery ; belly white ; snout and top of the 

 head brownish ; pectorals blackish ; base of caudal reddish. ' 



Cook Straits. 



SCOMBERID^. 



Body elongate, compressed, naked or with very small scales ; dorsal 

 fin with the spinous portion separate, and much less developed than the 

 soft ; finlets in front of the caudal ; ventrals thoi'acic ; tail keeled ; seven 

 branchiostegals. 



Scomber. 



Dorsals separated by an interspace ; five or six finlets ; scales very 

 small ; teeth small on jaws, vomer, and palate ; two slight ridges on each 

 side of the root of the caudal. 



Nearly all temperate and tropical seas. 



32. SCOMBER AUSTRALASICUS. C. and V. CM. 



Mackarel, 



S. australasicus, Giinth., II., 359. 



D. 10 I ^-^3 IV. ; A. j\ I V. ; L. Lat., 160. 



Length two and three-fourths that of the head, or four and three-fourths 

 the height of the body ; snout one-third of the length of the head, and 

 nearly one and a half times the diameter of the eye ; teeth distinct ; 

 caudal divided in the middle into an upper and lower lobe. 



Back shining bluish green, with spots and ol)li(pie stripes of darker, 

 the stripes sloping downwards and forwards ; belly silvery. 



Auckland, Wellington Harbour, Australia, and .Vmboyna. 



