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A. Ventrals comparatively loop;; Ions dorsal and anal lobes. 



B. Comparatively blunt muzzle, comparatively small eye; maxillary 

 reaching front of pupil; V)()dy deep, 2.22 in length without caudal, 



baillonii. 

 BB. Comparatively sharp muzzle, large eye; maxillary reaching middle 

 of eye; body more slender, 2.44 in length without caudal, 



quadripunctatus. 



AA. Ventral fins comparatively short, comparatively short dorsal and anal 



lobes; muzzle rather sharp; eye large; maxillary short, reaching front 



of eye, oblongus. 



Trachinotus ovatus (Linne). 



GuNTHER, Cat., ISGO, 2, p. -tSl. Jord.w & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1900, 25, p. 235. 



GaMrrn.fliiis ovciliis LiNNE, Syst. nat. ed. 10, 1758, p. 296. 



No. A123, a specimen Sf inches long from \'avau, Tonga Islands. 



Trachinotus baillonii (L.\cepede). 



CuviER & V.iLENciENNE.s, Hist. Nat. Pois.<3., 18.31, 8, ]). 317, 319 (431). 

 Caesioinorus baillonii Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., 1802, 3, p. 92, 93, pi. 3, fig. 1. 

 TmchionotuK rumellii Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1831, 8, p. 320 (436). Day, Fishes of India, 

 1876, p. 233 (in parti, pi. 51B, fig. 3. 



Plate 2, ficjurc 1. 



Five specimens. Nos. 08987, M. C. Z. 29799, 08809, 08857, 08854, 08852, 

 M. C. Z. 29799, 4f to 9| inches long from Funafuti, Ellice Islands. 



No. 08857, 9| inches long, has head 4.28 in length; depth 2.22; eye 4.3 in 

 head: snout 3.73; dorsal VI-I, 24; anal II-I, 23; scales about 90; lobe of 

 soft dorsal 2.95 in length; lobe of anal 2.85 in length. 



Color in spirits, silvery grayish on back, lobes of soft dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 dusky; four spots on lateral line on right side, the anterior very small, next two 

 half diameter of eye, the last minute; three spots on left side, first a little anterior 

 to a line from last dorsal spine, .6 diameter of eye, next smaller, and last very 

 small under posterior part of soft dorsal. 



No. 08352, 5i inches long, has head 3.65 in length; depth 2.28; eye 3.71 

 in head; snout 4; dorsal lobe about 3.27 in length; anal 3.65; ujDper caudal 

 lobe 2.87; lower 2.71 ; dorsal VI-I, 24; anal II-I, 24. 



