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good food fishes, but of small size, seldom exceeding 1 foot in 

 length. Only a few specimens have been recorded on our Atlan- 

 tic coast from Newport R. I., Pensacola Fla,, and Cape San Lucas, 



Lower California. 



Genus TRACHUROPS Gill 



This genus is close to C a r a n x, differing in the more elon- 

 gate form and specially in the structure of the shoulder girdle, 

 which has a deep cross furrow at its junction with the isthmus, 

 with a fleshy projection above the furrow. 



213 Trachurops crumenophthalimis (Bloch) 

 Big-eyed Soad; Groggier 



Scomber crumenopMhalmus BLOCH, Ichth. pi. 343, 1793. 



Scomber plumieri BLOCH, op. cit. pi. 344, 1793, Antilles; STOKER, Syn. Fish. 



N. A. 100, 1846. 

 Caranx crumenopTithalmus LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. IV, 107, 1803: 



CUVIEB & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. IX, 62, 1833; GUNTHER, 



Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 429, 1860; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 434, 1883. 

 Trachurops crumenoplitJwlmus JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



196, 1883; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 911, 1896, 



pi. OXL/I, fig. 365, 1900; BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 362, 



1897; SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C, XVII, 97. 3898. 



Body oblong elongate, little compressed, the back not elevated. 

 The depth is contained three and one half times in the length. 

 Head elongate, rather pointed, the lower jaw projecting; maxil- 

 lary reaching past the front of the eye, which is very large, 

 longer than snout, much deeper than cheeks, and greater than 

 the interorbital width. The length of the head is contained 

 three and one half times, while that of the eye is contained three 

 times in the length of the body. A single series of teeth in each 

 jaw, very weak teeth on vomer and palatines, a patch of teeth 

 on tongue. Shoulder girdle near isthmus with a fleshy projec- 

 tion, in front of which is a deep cross farrow; adipose eyelid 

 largely developed; scales comparatively large; cheeks and breast 

 scaly; gill rakers long and numerous; lateral line scarcely arched, 

 its scutes weak, but little carinated; dorsal spines slender; free 

 anal spines strong; pectorals falcate, shortish, about one and 

 one seventh in the head; an angle at lower posterior part of 

 opercular region as in C 1 u p e a . Bluish olive above, silvery 



