480 CARANGID^. 



Temnodon heptacanthus, Quoy ^ Gaini. Voij. Freyc. Zool. p. 400. 



pi. 61. f. 2 (bad). 

 saltator, Cuv. Sf Val. ix. p. 225. pi. 260 ; Cuv. Rhgne Anim. III. 



Poiss. pi. 56. f. 3 ; Sf.orer, Report, p. 57 ; Dekay, New York Fauna, 



Fishes, p. 1.30. pi. 26. f. 81 ; Baii-d, Ninth Smithson. Report, p. 337 ; 



Webb ^ Berthel. Hist. Nat. lies Canar. Ichthyol. p. 58. pi. 26. f. 2 ; 



Holhr. Ichthyol. S. Carol, p. 62. pi. 9. f. 2 ; Gay, Hist. Cliil. Zool. 



ii. p. 244; Lowe in Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 183; Nordm. in Demid. 



Voy. Russ. Merid. iii. p. 394 ; Guichen. Explor. Alger. Poiss. p. 63 ; 



Webb df Berthel. lies Canar. Poiss. p. 58. pi. 13. f. 2. 



D-8|^6- A- 1-2 1 26^8- L- lat. 90-100. L. transv. J. 

 Vert. 12/14. 



The maxillary reaches to, or nearly to, the vertical from the pos- 

 terior margin of the eye. Praeoperculum with a notch above the 

 angle, and with slight denticulations along the lower limb. Dorsal 

 spines very feeble. Coloration uniform. 



Inhabits nearly all the seas of the tropical and temperate regions. 



a. Adult. Lanzarote. Presented by the Rev. E.. T. Lowe. 



b. Half-grown. New York. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



c. Adult. South America. 



d. Half-grown. Cape Seas. 



e. Half-grown : not good state. Molucca Sea. 



/. Half-grown. Australia. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



g. Adult : stuffed. Australia. Piu'chased of Mr. Cuming. 



h-k. Young. AustraUa. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



I. Twenty-five inches long : stuffed. Swan River. 



m. Half-grown. Port Jackson. Presented by the Lords of the 



Admiralty. 

 n. Adult. 

 0. Adult. 



p. Adult: stuffed. 



q. Adult : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 

 r. Half-grown : not good state. 



14. TRACHYNOTUS*. 



Trachinotus, (Lacep.) Cuv. Sf Val. viii. p. 398. 



Body compressed, more or less elevated, covered with very small 

 scales ; cleft of the mouthrather small, with the muzzle above swollen, 

 obtuse. Opercles entire. Two dorsals : the first composed of free 

 spines in small number, and with an anterior horizontal spine di- 

 rected forwards. Two anal spines, separated from the soft portion. 

 No finlets. Small teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine 

 bones, generally lost with age. Seven branchiostegals ; pseudobran- 

 chise none ; air-bladder bifurcate posteriorly. Pyloric appendages 

 in considerable or moderate number. 



Atlantic, between Africa and America ; Indian Seas. 



* 1. Trachinotus marginatus, Cuv. &f Val. viii. p. 411. — Montevideo. 

 2. paytensis, Cuv. Sf Val. viii. p. 438. — Port de Paita. 



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