Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 875 



line undulating, with about 165 pores. Silvery; above dark steel bluish; 

 sides with numerous round spots of the same color as the back, three 

 rows of these spots below lateral lino and one above; spinous dorsal 

 all black ; soft dorsal tinged with yellowish, its margins black ; anal 

 white ; posterior face of pectoral entirely black, anterior face yellowish 

 with blackish borders ; caudal black. A large example, supposed to be a 

 male, has five rows of spots below the lateral line, anteriorly these spots 

 decreasing in size toward the belly, but extending nearly to base of ven- 

 tral fin. Length 24- feet. Pacific Coast of tropical America ; generally 

 common, representing S. maculatus, which it resembles very closely, the 

 more backward insertion of the soft dorsal and the coloration being the 

 only distinctive characters of importance. The species is not valued as 

 food, but this may be due to the poor ways of cooking fish prevalent in 

 Mexico. (Sierra, the vernacular name, meaning saw.) 



Scomberomorus maculalm, JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., n, 1882, 10G; not of 



MITCIIILL. 

 Scomberomorus sierra, JORDAN & STARKS, Kept. Fishes Sinaloa, MS. 1895, Mazatlan. (Type, 



No. 1720, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Hopkins Expedition.) 



1264. SCOMBEROMORUS REGALIS (Bloch). 

 (SIERRA ; PINTADO.) 



Head 4 ; depth 4|. D. XVII-I, 15-VIII ; A. II, 14-VIII. Body rather 

 elongate, its dorsal and ventral curves about equal. Lateral line 

 descending obliquely, undulate along the tail. Mouth large; maxillary 

 reaching to below eye ; angle of preopercle produced backward ; pec- 

 torals scaly ; caudal peduncle rather slender, its least depth 5i in head ; 

 caudal less widely forked than in maculatus. Teeth triangular, strongly 

 compressed, about 40 in each jaw. Pectoral scaly. Silvery; sides with 

 two blackish longitudinal bands crossing lateral line below soft dorsal, 

 both posteriorly broken with longitudinal spots ; above and below these 

 numerous brownish spots in rows persistent in the adult ; anterior por- 

 tion of spinous dorsal black. Cape Cod to Brazil ; not very common on 

 our Atlantic Coast ; abundant in Cuba, closely allied to Scomberomorus 

 maculatus, from which most fishermen do not distinguish it. It reaches 

 a length of 5 or 6 feet and a weight of 20 pounds, it being also an excel- 

 lent food-fish, (regalis, royal.) 



Scomber regalis, BLOCH, Ichthyol., pi. 333, 1795, Martinique ; after a drawing by PLUMIER. 

 Scomberomorns plumieri, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 292, 1806, Martinique; after AUHRIET'S 



copy of PLUMIER'S drawing. 

 Ci/binm regale, GFNTHER, Cat., n, 372, 1860. 



Ciibiinu acervum, CCVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vni, 186, 1831, Cuba. 

 Scomberomorus regalis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 426, 1883 ; MEEK & NEWLAMD, I. c., 234, 



1885 ; DRESSLAR & FESLER, I. c., 444, pi. x, 1889. 



125. SCOMBEROMORUS CAVALLA (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 (KiNGFisn ; CAVALLA ; CERO; SIERRA. ) 



Head 5 ; depth 6 ; eye large, 2 in snout. D. XV-1, 15-VIII ;' A. II, 15-VIII. 

 Mouth large, maxillary reaching to below eye. Lateral line descending 



