396 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



seven to 10 finlets ; ventrals small ; pectorals moderate, near the 

 level of the eye; air bladder present; vertebrae normally 

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

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

 Jordan and Evermann) 



198 Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill) 



Spamsh Mackerel 



Scwiiber maculatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 426, pi. VI,. 



fig. 8, 1815, New York. 

 CyUum maculatum De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 108, pi. 73, fig. 232, 1842^ 



New York; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 372, 1860; Stoker, 



Hist. Fish. Mass. 68, pi. XIII, fig. 1, 1867; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex 



Inst. XI, 15, 1879. 

 Scomberomorus maculatus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 426, 



1883; Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 138, 1888; 19th Bep. 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 

 part of head; head rather short, compressed, the lower jaw^ 

 heavy, but not projecting, length of head one fifth of total with- 

 out caudal; maxilla somewhat expanded posteriorly, extending^ 

 to hind margin of orbit, the upper jaw equal to snout and eye 

 combined; 16 strong conical teeth on each side in upper jaw, and 

 13 in the lower, vomer with a broad, short patch of minute, villi- 

 form teeth, palatine teeth similar^ in club-shaped patches; man- 

 dible equal to head without snout; snout one third as long as 

 head, very acute; posterior nostril twice as large as anterior; 

 eye one fifth as long as head ; interorbital space very convex, its 

 width nearly equal to snout; gill rakers short, 2 above and 

 11 below the angle of the first arch. The spinous dorsal origi- 

 nates over the insertion of the pectoral and considerably in ad- 

 vance of the 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 three sevenths as long 'as the head and four times as 

 long as the last spine, the fin decreasing in hight regularly from 



