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Sco))l)cr purumatophonis De la Roche, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist. XIII. 315, 334, 



1809, Balearic Islands. 

 scomber grex Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 422, 1815: Storer, 



Syn. Fish. N. A. 90, 1846. 

 iicovihcr dekayi Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 52, pi. XI, fig. 1, 1867; Goode & 



Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 15, 1879. 



Body fusiform, subterete, moderately elongate, its greatest 

 depth two ninths of total length to base of caudal fin; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle two thirds of the short diameter of 

 the eye, its width more than one half the length of head and 

 equal to snout and eye combined; head conical, pointed, com- 

 pressed, its length contained- three and three fourths times in 

 total to base of caudal, its width equal to one half its length, 

 width of interorbital space three fifths of length of postorbital 

 l>;u't of head; snout long, pointed, two sevenths as long as the 

 head; lower jaw slightly projecting, the mandible extending to 

 below hind edge of pupil, its length less than one half thie 

 h'liglh of head; the maxilla reaching nearly to front of pupil. 

 Tiie eye is large, covered in front and behind by an adipose mem- 

 brane, its length three elevenths of length of head or two thirds 

 of length of postorbital part of head. The spinous dorsal origi- 

 nates over the middle of the pectoral, a little behind the inser- 

 tion of the ventral; the base is as long as the head without the 

 snout and is nmch longer than the mandible; the second spine 

 longest, one half as long as the head, the last spine minute, 

 about one fifth as long as the eye. The interspace between the 

 <lnisals is only two thirds of depth of body. The second dorsal 

 Iase is chiefly opposite anal base, but more in advance than in 

 S r u III b (> ! s c o ni b r u s , its length equal to postorbital part 

 "I lie;Ml; I lie longest ray is one fourth as long as the head, the 

 l.isi i;i.v nil.- half as long as the eye; the second dorsal is fol- 

 l<\\e<l liy ii\c liiilcts, which increase in size posteriorly, the last 

 "H- I;ii-er ih.in last ray of dorsal, and two thirds as long as the 

 '>* ''''' "':il <>i-igin is under the fifth or sixth ray of the 

 -'eiHi .inisal; ihr biise of the fin is as long as the postorbital 

 I'-"' "'I' til'- lie:Ml; the longest ray equals the longest of the dor- 

 ^''- ''" ''^' '''ly i^ <"(' half as long as the eye; the fin is fol- 

 ''''''' '> 'i^" 'i'll''^ "'f th.' snme size as the dorsal finlets and 



