328 NEW YORK STATE MUSEtTM 



Scomberesox storeri De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 229, pi. 34, fig. Ill, 

 18i2, New York; Storek, Hist. Fish. Mass. 137, pi. XXIY, fig. 4, 1867. 



Scomberesox saurus Fleming, Brit. Anim. 184; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit, 

 iMus. VI, 257, 1866; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 21, 1879; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 375, 1883; Jordan fe 

 Eyermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 725, 1896, pi. CXVII, fig. 314, 

 1900. 



Body compressed, elongate, its greatest hight one nintli of 

 total length to base of caudal; anal equal to eye and postorbital 

 part of head combined; least hight of caudal peduncle equal to 

 eye; both jaws slender and produced, the lower longer than 

 upper, the distance from eye to tip of lower jaw equaling one 

 fifth of total to base of caudal; eye one third as long as post- 

 orbital part of head, about one fifth of length of upper jaw;, 

 small scales on opercle, but none on subopercle; body covered 

 with small scales; dorsal origin at a distance from front of eye 

 equal to five times hight of body, dorsal base three times as 

 long as the eye, longest dorsal ray one half as long as post- 

 orbital part of head, last dorsal ray equal to eye, five separate 

 finlets behind the dorsal; anal under the dorsal, its base slightly 

 longer, as long as postorbital part of head, longest anal ray 

 equal to longest of the dorsal, last anal ray scarcely equal to- 

 eye, six finlets behind the anal; caudal fin deeply forked, sym- 

 metric, the outer rays as long as the anal base; ventrals mid- 

 way between front of eye and base of caudal, length of fin about 

 twice diameter of eye, distance from ventral origin to anal 

 origin equal to length of upper jaw; length of pectoral one 

 fourth the length of head to tip of upper jaw; lateral line con- 

 taining minute, roundish pores, near the ventral edge, in modi- 

 fied scales which extend obliquely backward. D, 11+v; A, 134-vi; 

 V. i, 5; P. 14. Scales 14-124 (136 to free part of middle caudal 

 rays, 80 rows from axil of pectoral to origin of dorsal) ; opercle 

 with about 8 rows of scales. 



Back brownish to upper level of eye; sides with a silvery band, 

 nearly as broad as the eye and almost on the same level; lower 

 parts silv.iy \vi(li a golden tinge overlying it. 



The saury grows to tlie length of 18 inches. It inhabits the 

 teinierate ]arts of the Atlantic in Europe and the United 



