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the Rev. George Vachell, enables us to give a short account of this species. It differs from 

 obtusata in having two points to the gill-cover, and from all the species that have been hitherto 

 figured, in its higher shoulder and more concave profile. The specimen does not exhibit this 

 peculiarity of form so strongly as the figure, but it is flaccid and may have lost its exact shape. 



Canine teeth acute, subulate and slightly flexuose, like the italic s. Two on each side, 

 widely set on the upper jaw, with small lateral teeth pointing backwards, not arranged by 

 threes but with intervals, as if one had fallen out here and there. A few tall, compressed, 

 lancet-shaped teeth arm the palate-bones, and smaller teeth of the same form stand in a single 

 row on the limbs of the lower jaw, their size augmenting gradually as they near the corner of 

 the mouth ; two canines standing contiguously on the tip of the jaw. No teeth on the small 

 chevron of the vomer. The gill-cover shows two small, slender, flat points, the upper one 

 being rather the longest. Lateral line almost straight ; torulose. 



Hab. Canton. 



Sphyr#:na nigripinnis, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 34. pi. 13. f. L 



Hab. Japanese sea. 



Sphyr^ena (vulgaris) japonica, C. et V. ii. p. 354? ; Temm. et Schl. 

 F.J. Sieb. p. 33. 



This fish was merely indicated in the ' Histoire des Poissons' from a Japanese drawing, 

 but the authors of the ' Fauna Japonica' possess a single dried specimen, which they state to 

 be in no respect different from the European one. It is distinguished from the Indian Sphy- 

 rcena by the ventrals being further back than the tips of the pectorals. 



Hab. Japanese sea. (Mediterranean ?) 



Fam. Scombrisid^. 



Scomber scombrus, Lin. Bl. Auct. C. et V. viii. p. 6 ; Temm. et Schl. F. J. 

 Sieb. p. 92 ; Icon. Reeves, 163. Chinese name, Ta che, " Variegated eke" 

 (Reeves) ; Fa chi (Bridgem. Chrest. 105). 



Hab. Chinese and Japanese seas. Cape of Good Hope. Atlantic. Mediterranean. Black 

 sea (not in the sea of Azof). English channel. North sea and Baltic. 



Scomber pneumatophorus, " Laroche," C. et V. viii. p. 36 ; Temm. et 

 Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 93. pi. 47. f. 1 et 2. 



Hab. Chinese, Japanese, and Australian seas. Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of North 

 Africa. 



Scomber delphinalis, " Commerson," C. et V. viii. p. 53. Icon. Reeves, 

 /G. 23; Hardw. i. 183. Chinese r\eane,Hwa tsze (Birch) ; Ta tze, " Flowered 

 fee" (Reeves) ; Fa chi (Bridgem. Chrest. 106). 

 Hab. China seas and coasts of Madagascar. 



Thynnus orien talis, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 94. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



Thynnus thunnina, C. et V. viii. p. 104. t. 202 ; Temm. et Schl. F. J. 

 Sieb. p. 95. pi. 48. Maquereau a quatre points, Geoffr. Egypt, pi. 24. 

 f. 3. Japan Fishes, Bib. Banks, fig. 35. 

 Hab. Japanese sea. Mediterranean. 



Thynnus pel amys, Lin. {Scomber). C. et V. viii. p. 113. Japan Fishes, 

 Bib. Banks, fig. 49. Icon. G. Forsteri, 230. in Bib. Banks (Atlantic) ; 

 Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 96. pi. 49. 



Hab. Sea of Japan. Malay Archipelago. Straits of Sunda. Polynesia. South American 

 coasts. Canaries. African coasts. 



Thynnus sibi, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. p. 97. pi. 50 (sibu). 



Hab. Sea of Japan. 



