EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 149 



Synopsis of Subgenera and Species. 

 Trachinotus : — - 



cfi. Body elevated, its depth half or more than half its length ; snout high, anteriorly 

 vertical ; upper jaw the longer ; gill-rakers short and stout. 

 b^. Dorsal fin with 18 or 19, anal with 17 soft rays ; sides immaculate . . 1. ovatus. 



Ccesiomorus : — 



a^. Body ovate, its depth less than half its length ; snout low, anteriorly rovmded ; gill- 

 rakers longer and more slender, 

 c^. Dorsal with 23 or more, anal with 21 or more soft rays. 



d^. Snout slightly gibbous anteriorly ; caudal fin longer ; ventral shorter . . bailloni. 



d^. Snout pointed anteriorly ; caudal fin shorter ; ventral longer . . . . botla. 



c2. Dorsal with 20 or less, anal with 17 or less soft rays ; snout gibbous . . anak, 



TRACHINOTUS BAILLONI (Lac^p^de). 

 (Plate XVIII.) 



Ccesiomorus bailloni Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 1802, p. 93, pi. iii, fig. 1 {after Commergoti's 

 figure). 



Ccesiomorus quadripunctalus Riippell, Atlas Fisch. Roth. Meer., 1828, p. 90, pi. xxiv, fig. 1. 



Trachinotus bailloni Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., viii, 1831, p. 434 (after Commer- 

 gon's MSS.) ; Bleeker, Nat. Tijds., Nederl. Ind., iii, 1852, p. 237; id.. Verb. Batav. Gen., 

 xxiv, 1852, Makreel., p. 46 ; id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., x, 1856, p. 469 ; id., ibid., 

 xii, 1857, p. 214 ; id., ibid., xiii, 1857, p. 419 ; id., ibid., xvii, 1859, p. 146 ; id.. Act, Soc. 

 Sci. Indo-Neerl., viii, 1860, Sumatra, p. 2; id., ibid., Celebes, p. 38 ; id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. 

 Ind., xxii, 1861, p. 65 ; id., Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, xii, 1861, p. 74 ; Steindachner, 

 Denk. Akad. Wien., 1902, p. 22 ; Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v, 1903, p. 25 ; id., ibid., 

 1904, p. 200 ; Jordan & Scale, Bull. U. S. Biu-. Fisher., xxv, 1906, p. 235 ; Jordan & 

 Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxii, 1907, p. 495 ; Jordan & Richardson, Mem. Carnegie 

 Mus., iv, pt. 4, 1909, p. 180 ; idd., Check-List Fish. Philipp Archip., 1910, p. 21 ; Kendall 

 & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxvi, 1911, p. 271, pi. ii, fig. 1 ; McCulloch, 

 Rec. W. Austr. Mus., i, pt. 3, 1914, p. 223. 



Trachinotus quadripunctalus Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 434. 



Trachynotics quadripunctalus Cantor, Catal. Malay. Fish., 1850, p. 122. 



Trachynotus baillonii Giinther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., ii, 1860, p. 484 (descr. & synon. in part) ; 

 Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, xiv, 1862, p. 109 ; id., Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., i, 1862, 

 p. 242 ; id., Versl. Akad, Amsterdam, xvi, 1864, p. 260 ; id., Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., ii, 

 1865, pp. 99, 174, 191, 289 ; Playfair, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 861 ; Klunzinger, 

 Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., 1871, p. 449 ; Bleeker, in Pollen & van Dam, Faim. 

 Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss., p. 98 ; Day, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 233, pi. liA, 

 fig. 4 ; Peters, Mon. Akad. Berlm, 1876, pp. 440, 836 ; Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amsterdam, 

 xviii, 1879, He Maurice p. 18 ; Macleay, Proc. Lirm. Soc. N. S. Wales, v, 1881, p. 545 

 (descr. after Giinther ; not localities) ; Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 661 ; 

 Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iii, pt. 8, 1897, p. 190. 



Trachynotus bailloni Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, p. 25 ; id., Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 98 ; 

 Giinther, Fisch. d. Sudsee, pt. 4, 1876, p. 139. 



Trachinotus oblongus Kendall & Goldsborough, ibid., p. 272, pi. i. Not of Ciivier & Valenciennes 

 1831. 



BLACK-SPOTTED SWALLOWTAIL. 



Type localities: — Fort Dauphin, Madagascar (0. hailloni). 



Red Sea at Massawa (C. quadripunctatus) . 



Body ovate and strongly compressed, the ventral contour rather more 

 curved than the dorsal, which is linear and moderately acclivous from the 

 forehead to the nape, beyond which the acclivity is much more gentle to the 

 soft dorsal; ventral contour moderately convex from the chin to the anal with 



