HIPPOS MACKREL. 601 



row of small, rounded, but not pointed, scales : 

 pectoral fins lanceolate, and reddish at the base, as 

 is also the tail, which is deeply forked : native of 

 the African seas. 



KLEINIAN MACKREL. 



Scomber Kleinii. S. argenteo-tlavescens, dorso violaceo, tinea 



later ali versus caudam dilatato-loricata. 

 Yellowish-silvery Mackrel, with violaceous back, and lateral 



line widely- mailed towards the tail. 

 Scomber Kleinii. Block. 



A smallish species : length from six to ten 

 inches : habit nearly as in the immediately preced- 

 ing species: colour silvery, with dusky back: scales 

 rather small : lateral line mailed with very broad 

 scales as it approaches the tail, which is very 

 strongly forked : all the fins pale, and shaped as in 

 the preceding species. Native of the Indian seas. 



HIPPOS MACKREL. 



Scomber Hippos. S. macula operculari nigra, pinna dorsali 



posterior e rubra. 

 Mackrel with a black spot on the gill-covers, and hinder dorsal 



fin red. 



Scomber Hippos. Lin. Gmel. 



With a single row of teeth, and two large in 

 front : lateral line bending very much, and some- 

 what spiny or mailed as it approaches the tail : 

 dorsal fin red - y ventral and anal yellow : no finlets : 



