92 

 SAEDA, Cuv. 



S. pelamys. 



Stripsd Bonito, or Skip-Jack. 



Has tlio general I'orni of the comniori Mackerel, but i.s a 

 larger and more robust fish; its height to its leugth is as one 

 to four. The scales are scarcely visible, except upon the so- 

 called corselet, which is of a triangular shape, extending 

 from the gill-opening to beyond the tip of the pectorals. 

 Summit of head and upper part of the sides dark-plumbeous; 

 abdomen and sides ashen grey, mixed with blue. There are 

 G — 8 jDarallel, longitudinal, narrow, dark stripes, and (in 

 young individuals) 6 — 8 broad, vertical, deep-blue bands, 

 crossing the narrow longitudinal stripes at right angles. 

 They become efiaced, or are entirely wanting, in older 

 specimens. Length, 12 to 20 inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 22, 2, 12— IX; P. 24: V. 1, 5; A. 2, 12— 

 VIII; C.'2y. 



Pelmni/s sanla, Cuv. c(: Val. VIII, ]>. IIU; pi. 217; Storer. 

 Fishes, Massach. p. 4; DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, }>. 

 lOG; pi. G: fig. 27; Cuv. Eegue. Anim. 111. Poiss. pi. 48: 

 fig. 2. 



Scomber sar da, Blocii, X, p. 35; Taf. 334; Bl. Sclin. ]). 22: 

 Mitch. Trans. Lit. S: Phil. Soc. Xew York, I, p. 428. 



Found rarely neai- tlie entrance to Chesapeake Bay. 



Acad. Coll. 



(!YBIUM, C"uv. 



1— C- maculatnm. 



Bay Mackerel, or the Spanish Mackerel 



Similar in shape and appearance to Scomher colius; head 

 pointed, and to the whole length as about 1 to G; eyes and 

 mouth large; greenish above, shading into ashen-grey; sides 

 and all beneath white; about twenty yellowish rounded spots 

 are distributed irregularly along the sides. First dorsal fin, 

 as far as the eighth or ninth ray, black; pectorals black, Avith 

 brown margins; ventrals andanals whitish. Length, 18 to 

 24 inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 17, 2, 15— X, or 16, 1, 15— VIII; P. 19— 

 .22; V. 1, 5; A. 2, 15— VIII— IX; C. 22. 



C. macidatimi , Guenther, II, p. 372. 



