390 NKW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



seven to 10 finlc^ts; ventrals small; pectorals moderate/near the^ 

 level of The ove; air bladder present; vertebrae normally 

 formed, 45 in number. Fishes of tlie high seas; graceful in form 

 and beautiful iu color; among the best of food fishes. (After 

 Jordan and Evermann) 



198 Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill) 

 Spanish Mcwkerel 



ScoNibfJi- mariilalii.v IvIitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 426. pi. VI, 



fig. 8, 1815, New York. 

 Cyhium imu-ulatum De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 108, pi. 73, fig. 232. 3842, 



.New Yorlv; Gvnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 372, 1860; Stoker, 



Hi.st. Fish. Mass. 68, pi. XIII, tig. 1, 1867; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex 



Inst. XI, 15, 1879. 

 HcQmbn-omorits huicuhttus Jordan <fc Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 426, 



188:5; Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C. YII, 138, 1888; 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. 



N. Y. 254, pi. VII, fig. 9, 1890; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. 



Nat. :Mus. 874, 1896, pi. CXXXIV, fig. 368, 1900. 



Body elongate, much compressed, fusiform, its greatest depth 

 from one fourth to two ninths of total length without caudal, 

 its width two fifths of its depth and equal to postorbital part of 

 head; least depth of caudal peduncle one half the postorbital 

 paiM of liead; head rather short, compressed, the lower jaw 

 hca\y. hill not projecting, length of head one fifth of total with- 

 out caudal; maxilla somewhat expanded posteriorly, extending 

 to liiud margin of orbit, Ihc ujtpcr jaw equal to snout and eye 

 combined; 1(1 strong conical teeth on each side in upper jaw, and 

 l.'t in I lie lower, vomer with a broad, short patch of minute, villi- 

 fonii Iceili. |ialaiine Iccili similar, in club-shaped patches; man- 

 dililc c(|nal li head without snout; snout one third as long as 

 iicad, \(i\ acute; i>osterior nostril twice as large as anterior; 

 ey<' oiM- lit 111 as long as head; interorbital space very convex, its 

 \vidili iicailv ((pial to snout; gill ralcers short, 2 above and 

 '' bilnw ihr anule of (lie first arch. The spinous dorsal origi- 

 nates over ilic insertion of llie pectoral and considerably in ad- 

 ^""" "' III'' ventral origin; the base of the fin is long, as long 

 as the head plus the length of the snout; the second and longest 

 spine is iliree sevenths as long as the head and four times as 

 leng as the last spine, the tin decreasing in high! i-egularly from- 



