1.54 MEMOIL'S OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Dimensions: — Day obtained a specimen measuring 483 millim. on the 

 Indian Coast, but Waite's Lord Howe Island record of 559 millim. is, I believe, 

 the highest as yet published. 



Illustration:— Through the kindness of the Trustees of the Australian 

 ]Museum our illustration has been taken from the larger and more perfect 

 specimen taken by Mr. McCulloch at Murray Island. 



TRACHINOTUS OVATUS (Linnajus). 



Pesque-pampus Renard, Poiss. Moluques, i, 1718, jil. xxvii, fig. 151. 



Ikan-botoe Valentyn. Amboina, iii, 1724, p. 386, fig. 118. 



Gasterosteiis ovahis Linna-us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, p. 296; Boiinatorre, Encvl. Mt§th., 

 Ichth. 1788, p. 137. 



Scomber falcatits Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. 57 ; Bonnaterre, ibid., p. 142. Xot Labnis 

 falcatus Linnceiis, which is also a Trachinotus. 



Trachinotus falcatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 1802, p. 79 ; Riippell, Atlas Fisch. Roth. 

 Meer., 1828, p. 89 ; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., viii, 1831, p. 430. Not 

 Labrits falcatus Linnaeus. 



CcBsiomorus blochii Lacepede, ibid., p. 95, pi. iii, fig. 2 {alter C'ommerQon\i figure). 



Centronotus ovaUs Lacepede, ibid,, pp. 309, 316. 



Mookalee. Parah Russell, Fish. Vizagapatam, ii, 1803, p. 39, pi. cliv. 



Trachinotus mookale Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 423 ; Bleeker, Nat. en Geneesk. Arcli. 

 Nederl. Ind., ii, 1845, p. 516; id., Verb. Batav. Gen., xxiii, 18.50, Midd.-en Oost-Java, 

 p. 8; Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. & Sci., 1851, p. 136; Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. 

 Ind., iii, 1852, pp. 412, 445 ; id., Verb. Batav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, Makreel., p. 47 ; id., 

 ibid., XXV. 1853, Bengal, p. 44 ; id., Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., xv. 1858, pp. 223, 459 ; 

 id.. Act. See. Sci.'lndo-Neerl., v, 1858, Borneo, p. 2; id., ibid., viii, 1860, Sumatra, 

 p. 28 ; id., ibid., Borneo, p. 13 : id., ibid., Celebes, p. 38. 



Trachinotus blochii Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 429 {after CommevQons MSS.) ; Bleeker, 

 Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, xii, 1861, pp. 52, 74. 



Trachitiotiis affinis Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 428. 



Trachinotus falciger Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. ; Bleeker, Nat. en Geneesk. Arch. Nederl. 

 Ind., ii, 1845, p. 516. 



Trachinotus drepanis Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 429. 



Trachinotus auratus Richardson, Rep. Ichth. China & Japan, 1845, p. 270. 



Trachynotus mookale Cantor, Catal. Malay. Fish., 1850, p. 120. 



Trachynotus ovatus Gtinther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., ii, 1800, p. 481 ; Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. 

 Dierk., i, 1863, p. 242 ; id., ibid., ii, 1865, p. 289 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865^ 

 p. 25 ; id.. Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. 97 ; Kner, Reise Novara, Fisch., pt. 2; 1865, p. 164 ; 

 Playfair, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 861 ; Steindaehner, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ix, 

 1869, p. 709 ; Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 689 ; Khmzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 449 ; Bleeker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., 1873, p. 132 ; id., in Pollen & 

 van Dam, Faun. Madagascar, pt. 4, 1875, Poiss. p. 98 ; Day, Fish. India, pt. 2, 1876, 

 p. 234, pi. Hb, fig. 2 ; Giinther, Fisch. d. Sudsee, pt. 4, 1876, p. 139 ; Alleyne & Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i, 1877, p. 329 ; Klmizinger, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixxx, i, 

 1879; Giinther, Zool. Challenger, i, 1880, Shore Fishes, p. 44 ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, v, 1881, p. 545 {after Giinther) ; id., ibid., vii, 1882, p. 359 ; Woods, Fish. 

 & Fisher. N. S. Wales, 1882, p. 17 ; Ogilby, Catal. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1886, p. 27. 



Trachinotus ovatvs Steindaehner, Denk. Akad. Wien, 1902, p. 22 ; Waite, Synops. Fish. N. S. 

 Wales, 1904, p. 41 ; Jordan & Seale, Biill. U. S. Bur. Fisher., xxv, 1906, p. 235 ; Sttad, 

 Edib. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1908, p. 93 ; Jordan & Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., iv, 

 1909, p. 180 ; Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxvi, 1911, p. 271." 



" Jordan & Gilbert (Proc. t^.S. Nat. Mus., v,1882, p. 375) record the species from Western 

 America, but I can not find any mention of tliis reference in the Fishes of North and ]\Iiddlo 

 America ; possibly it should be placed in the synonymy of the closely allied T. culveri. 



