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This species is very abundant along our North Atlantic coast, great 
quantities being taken every season. It is a valuable food-fish. It 
attains a length of 16 or 17 inches, and a weight of 2 to 3 pounds. 
2. SCOMBER COLIAS. 
(Chub Mackerel; Tinker Mackerel; Spanish Mackerel of Europe; Thimble- 
eyed Mackerel.) 
Lacerto Cetti, 11 Hist. Nat. Sard., iii, 190, 1774.” 
Scomber colias Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (Sardinia), 1329, 1788 (based on Cetti) ; Cuv. & 
Val., viii, 39, pi. 209, 1831 (Naples); Storer, Fishes Massachusetts, 45, 1839; 
De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fish. 104, pi. 11, f. 33, 1842 (New York) ; Gunther, ii, 
361, 1860 (Lisbon) ; Steindachner, Ichthyologische Notiz., vii, 25, 1868 (coast 
of Chili); Steindachner, Ichthyologische Bcrichte, v, 3, 1868 (Spain, Portu- 
gal); Gill, Cat. Fish, East Coast N. A., U. S. Fish Com. Kept., 802, 1872; 
Steindachner, Ichthyologische Beitrage, iii, 53, 1875; Jordan & Gilbert, 
Proc. LT. S. Nat. Mus., 592, 1882 (Charleston, S. C.) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 268, 1882; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 143, 1883 (Pensa- 
cola) ; Goode, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 303, pi. 91, f. 2, 1884 (Provincetown, 
Mass.); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 39, 1884 (name only); Steindachner 
& Doderlein, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Fische Japan’s, iii, 9, 1885 (Tokio) ; 
Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 373, 1885 (Cape San Lucas; no description); 
Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 574, 1886 (no description). 
Scomber lacertus Walbaum, Art. Pise., 209, 1792 (after Cetti). 
Scomber pneumatopliorus de la Roche, “Annal. Mus. Hist. Nat., xiii, 315, 334, 1809” 
(Balearic Islands); Cuv. & Val., viii, 36, 1831; Gunther, ii, 359, 1860 (St. 
Helena, Madeira); Poey, Enumer. Pise. Cubens., 73, 1875; Bean, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., 25, 1879 (Canaries); Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 88, 1880 (Prov- 
incetown, Mass.; no description); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
•456, 1880 (Monterey Bay; no description); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., 45, 1881 (Monterey); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 593-594, 
1882 (Santa Barbara, Cal.); Jordan & Gilbert, Synop. Fish. N. A., 424, 1883; 
Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 68, 1885. 
Scomber macroplithalmns Rafinesque, Indice d’Ittiologia Siciliana, 53, 1810 (Palermo). 
Scomber grex Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Society N. Y., 422, 1815 (New York); Cuv. 
& Val., viii, 45, 1831 (Brazil); De Kay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 103, pi. II, 
f. 32 (New. York); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 267, 306, 1882 
(Pensacola); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 374, 1882 (Panama). 
Scomber maculatus Couch, “ Mag. Nat. Hist., v, 22, f. 8, 1832.” 
Scomber diego Ayers, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., i, 92, 1856 (Santa Barbara); Gill, Pioc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 260, 1862 (Lower California); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 456, 1880 (name only); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., 268, 1882 (Southern California). 
Scomber dekayi Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 130, pi. 11, f. 1, 1867 (Massachusetts coast); 
Kidder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 314, 1879 (Provincetown). 
Habitat . — Warm seas, north to Southern Europe, Cape Cod, Monterey, 
and Japan, south to Chili. The specimens examined by us are from 
the Massachusetts coast. Block Island, Santa Barbara, Albemarle Island, 
Galapagos, and Yen ice. 
Etymology: Colias , Latin name, probably of this species; bastard 
tunny. 
This well known species, common in the Mediterranean, is of rather 
irregular occurrence on our Atlantic coast. It is a good food-fish, but 
