Jordan anJ Fvermann. Fishes of North America. 919 



widest about equaling diameter of orbit, and more than twice as wide as 

 the light interspaces ; breast blackish ; head dusky ; end of snout black; 

 a distinct black blotch on upper angle of opercle; fins somewhat dusky ; 

 the lower yellow in life ; pectoral without spot ; axil dusky ; anal white 

 at tip of lobe. Pacific Coast of Mexico, Mazatlan to Punta Arenas. A 

 well-marked species, abundant about tjie entrance to the Gulf of Califor- 

 nia, its range extending thence to the coast of Central America, (vinctus, 

 banded.) 



<'iii-<i>i.>- rim-lux, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 349, Mazatlan; (Typo, Nos. 



28:565 and 28366. Coll. Gilbert); JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 197. 

 Caranx, sp., LAY & BENNETT, Beechey's Voyage, 55, 1849, San Bias; Mazatlan. 



Subgenus CARANX. 



1311. CARANX RUBER (Bloch). 



(CiBi MANCHO ; CARBONEEO.) 



Head 3| ; depth 3. D. VII-I, 26; A. II, I, 22; scutes 25 to 29. 

 Straight portion of lateral line considerably longer than curved part, 2i 

 in body. Lateral line not strongly arched; maxillary scarcely reaching 

 front of eye ; teeth on vomer and palatines persistent, those on jaws in 

 a few series without canines. Dorsal low, its anterior rays slightly 

 falcate, 2| in head. Color bluish olive, silvery below, scarcely yellowish 

 in life ; a vaguely defined horizontal stripe of clear blue just below the 

 dorsal ; dorsal yellowish gray, other fins dusky olive, a distinct black- 

 ish bar extending along lower lobe of caudal. West Indies ; not rare, 

 (rii&er, red, which the species is not; it was originally named from a 

 drawing erroneously colored.) 



Scomber ruler, BLOCH, Ichthyologia, plate 342, 1793, Ste. Croix. 



Caranx ruler, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Tchthyol., 29, 1801; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1884, 32; GUNTHER, Cat., 11, 430. 



Caranx llochii, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 69, 1833, Ste. Croix; same type. 

 ( '<t)-, t .r iridinus, POEY, Memoriae, n, 226, 1860, Cuba. 

 Carangoides iridinus, POEY, Synopsis, 366, 1868; POEY, Enumeratio, 77, 1875. 



1312. CARANX BARTHOLOMJEI, Cuvier & Valencienues. 

 (YELLOW JACK ; CIBI AMARILLO.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2f . D. VIII-I, 27 ; A. II-1, 23 ; scales 28. Body ovate, 

 deep and compressed, somewhat elliptical ; the profile anteriorly not ele- 

 vated, forming an even curve continuous from the snout to the base of 

 the dorsal, the snout therefore not blunt. Top of head not much com- 

 pressed. Premaxillaries on the level of the lower edge of the pupil; 

 maxillary not reaching to opposite the front of the pupil. Teeth rather 

 small, in a narrow band on each jaw, without distinct canines ; villiform 

 teeth on tongue, vomer, and palatines. Cheek about as deep as the eye, 

 which is rather small, considerably shorter than snout ; adipose eyelid 

 little developed. Gill rakers long. Breast entirely scaly ; soft parts of 

 the vertical fins densely covered with small scales. Dorsal low, its anterior 

 rays slightly falcate. Pectoral fin falcate, a little shorter than the head, 



