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XLIL—SCOMBEKESOC'IDiE. 



Exooa:Trs, Artedi. 



The FlviiiQ' Fish. 



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Elongated, almost cvlindrictil, ilatteiicd aliovc, tai»eriiig 

 towards the tail; head smooth, triangular. Scales thick and 

 easily ruhhed off; on each side of the body is a row of ridged 

 ones, which extend from the lower edge of the gilt-covers to 

 the tail. Eye.s large, witli a moderate depression l)et\veen 

 them, and three small pores on each side, and with channelled 

 lines along the baelc. The dorsal fin commences over the ven- 

 trals; the pectorals with fifteen branched rays; the anal 

 longer than high; the caudal deeply lunate, with its lowei- 

 lobe much longer. 



Color dark greenish, or blnish, above; beneath silvery 

 white. Length 10 — Vl inches. 



Ein-rays;— D. 14; P. 15; Y. G; A. 8. 



h\ iiiesoguster, Mitch. Trans. Lit. ^- Philos. Hoc. N. Y.,I. 



].. 448, pi. 5, fig. :;. 



E. ii,or<'l><inic('iisi.s^ Delviiy, New York b'auna. ]>, 'I'MK 



Occui's at the mtmth of the Pottimac liiver, and in tlie 

 southern })art of Chesajieako l>ay. 



AcAH. (^)l,!,. 



HLMIPHAMPHUS, (\ix . 



il . JIOHKIITI. 



Long and slender, head euntaiuc'd two and tltree-fourth 

 times in the length af the hody. excluding tlie tail-fin; lower 

 jaw live and a-half times as long as the u[)]»er. Lack dark 

 greenish, .sides with a well-defined silvery l)and. 



lMn-ray^i: 1). 15: 1'. !;h Y. G; A. IG; C. 18. 



//. rnhcrli., Ciiv. eV Val. XIX, )». 24; (luenther, Cat. 

 British Museum, vol. \'l. p. 'l^W). 



