132 FISHES* 



lateral line, its anterior and arcuated portion being furnished with small 

 scales. Some are fusiform, and of these, one has a single spurious dor- 

 sal and anal fin*, another has several-]-, but most of them have none J. 



Others again, which have a more elevated body, but still retain the 

 oblique and but slightly convex profile, are remarkable for a single range 

 of teeth §. 



Some fishes of this genus, termed Carangues by the French sailors, 

 have an elevated body and a sharp profile, curved into a convex arch, 

 and descending suddenly. The species are very numerous in both 

 oceans. 



C. caranqus; Scomber carangus, Bl. 340. (The Carangue of 

 the Antilles). Silvery, with a black spot on the operculum, and 

 frequently found to weigh from twenty to twenty-five pounds ; an 

 excellent fish. A very similar species, but in which the black spot 

 is wanting, the 



Guaratereba, Seb. Ill, xxvii, 3, (The Bastard Carangue), is, on 

 the contrary, very apt to prove poisonous ||. 



We might also distinguish those species which have no teeth**, and 

 those, the points of whose second dorsal and anal are extremely elongated, 

 which I have designated by the name of Citul;e -j~f. 



We are thus gradually led to fishes which may be united under the 

 common name of 



Vomer, 



which become more and more compressed and elevated, where the arma- 

 ture of the lateral line successively diminishes, and the skin becomes fine, 

 satiny, and without any apparent scales, which have no other teeth than 

 those dense as the pile on velvet, and which are distinguished from each 

 other by various prolongations of some of their fins. 



Linnaeus and Bloch placed them, but improperly, in the genus Zeus. 

 We divide them as follows: 



Olistus, Cuv. 

 Differ from Citula, inasmuch as the middle rays of the second dorsal are 



* Kurra-woodagahwah, Russ. 139;— Car. punctatus, Cuv., called Scomber hippos, 

 by Mitch., New York, op. cit. I, v, 5, but which is not the hippos of Linnaeus;— 

 Curvaia pinima, Marcgr. Braz. 150. 



f Scomber Rotleri, Bl. 346, and Russel, 143;— Sc. cordyla, L., but not his syno- 

 nymes, which are Carangi. 



X Scomb. crumenophtalmus, Bl. 343; — Sc. Plumieri, Bl. 344, the same as the Sc. 

 ruber, 343, and as the Caranx Daubenton, Lacep. Ill, 71. 



§ Scomb. dentex, BL, Schn. ■— Caranx lune, Geoff. Saint-Hil., Eg. Poiss. xxiii, 3, to 

 which the Citula Banshii, Riss., 2d ed. VI, 13, and perhaps the Trachurus imperialis, 

 Rafin., Car. XI, 1, are, at least, closely allied. 



|| Add, the Scomb. hippos, L., which is the Sc. chrysos, Mitch.; — Ekalah parah, 

 Russ. 146, perhaps the Scomb. ignobilis, Forsk.;— Car. sex-fasciatus, Qnoy et Gaym., 

 Zool 1- reycin. pi. 65, f. 4;— Jarra dandree parah, Russ. U7 ;— Scomb. K/einii, Bl. 

 347, 2;— Sc. Sansun, Forsk. ; — Kuguroo-parah, Russ. 145; — Talan-parah, Id. 150, or 

 Scomb. malabaricus, Bl., Schn.;— Wooiin-parah, Russ. 148. 



** Scomb. speciosus, Lacep. Ill, 1, 1, or Polooso- parah, Russ. 149, of which the 

 Car. petaunsta, Geoff., Egypt. XXIII, 1, appears to be the adult. 



Tt Tchaivil-parah, Russ. 151 ;— Mais-parah, Id. 152. 



