No. 1625. ON FISHES FROM FIJI—JORDAN AND DICKERSON. 609 
There are 14 abdominal vertebre and 16 caudal, or a total of 31 
with the hypural. The vertebral elements are arranged as in Scom- 
ber, as are the other elements with the above exceptions. 
Type of the genus—Scomber brachysomus Bleeker. 
Ir. RASTRELLIGER BRACHYSOMUS (Bleeker). 
Scomber brachysomus BLEEKER, Makreele, p. 356. 
Two large specimens. aie 
Head 3% in length to end of caudal; depth 34; eye 44 in head. 
D. IX, I-11-V; A. I-11-V. Scales 130, small (though larger than in 
Scomber), not forming a corselet; irregular in arrangement above 
the ventral fins, enlarged below axillary region. Body compressed, 
deep; head pointed, unscaled; adipose eyelid conspicuous, covering 
the anterior and posterior third of the eye and extending forward 
and backward over the head; preorbital three-fourths diameter of 
eye; mouth large, the maxillary slipping under the preorbital and 
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reaching to a perpendicular from a point somewhat beyond the 
middle of the eye; lower jaw projecting; teeth minute, in a single row 
on the jaws, lacking on vomer and palatines. Opercle short, its 
posterior border relatively straight; gill rakers 23-44, unusually 
long, the longest 24 in head (nearly equal to length of pectoral 
fin). | } 
_ Dorsals not connected by a groove; second and third dorsal spines 
14 in head, nearly one-half the depth of the body; pectoral short, 
one-half head, slightly longer than ventrals; caudal peduncle with 
two small keels on each side; depth of caudal fin 4 in width. 
Color in alcohol dark with silvery reflections above lateral line, 
heht and coppery below; dorsal fins, pectorals, and caudal mar- 
eined with black; ventrals and anals yellowish, unmarked. 
