514 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxii. 



hh. Teeth on the palatines in two bands on each side; snout rather acute; anal fin 



shorter than dorsal Saurida, 3. 



ua. Hahpodontin.e. Canine teeth of lower jaw barljed; flesh very soft; scales very 

 thin; lung teeth more or less depressible; anal fin moderate. 



Ilarpodon, 4. 



1. TRACHINOCEPHALUS Gill. 



TracIdtKJVcphalus (hhh, ('at P'ish Eastern Coast N. Anier., I8G1, }). 53 (myops); 



(name only; first defined in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 241). 

 Gooddla Ogilby, Proc. Linn. See. N. S. W., XXII, 1897, p. 249 ihypozona = 



young of myops.) 



Body elongate, robust, compressed; head large, deep, laterally 

 compressed, its form much as m the genus Trachinus; snout very 

 short, blunt; teeth as in Synodus, but more slender, smaller, and 

 closely set; lower jaw projecting; vent well forward, very slightly 

 nearer base of caudal than base of ventrals, under tip of last dorsal ray. 



This genus is very close to Synodus, from which it differs chiefly in 

 form of head and body and in the relative development of the fins, 

 the anal fin especially being longer than the dorsal and provided with 

 more rays. 



A single species laiown, widely disseminated in the tropical waters 

 of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. 



{rpdxiyog, trachinus; Ke(f>aXy^ head.) 



I. TRACHINOCEPHALUS MYOPS (Forster). 

 OKIESO (OFF-SHORE ESO). 



Salriio myops Forster in Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 421 (St. 



Helena) . 

 Saurus myops Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2d ed., 1829, p. 268 (after Forster). — 



GiJNTHER, Cat Fish, V, 1864, p. 398 (Cuba, Jamaica, Japan, Amboyna, 



Pinang, Mauritius, Port Jackson). — Day, Fishes of India, p. 503, pi. cxvii, 



fig. 5 (Madras). — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 22 (Kagoshima, Bonin Is.). 

 Synodus myops Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., VI, p. 153, 1870-1872, pi. cclxxviii, fig. 



3 (Sumatra, Pinang, Bangka, Bali, Celebes, Batjan, Amboyna, Ceram). 

 Trachinocephalus myops Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 1890, p. 314. — 



Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of Hawaiian Islands, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 



XXIII, Pt. 1, 1903 (July 29, 1905), p. 62, fig. 13 (Hilo, Honolulu). 

 Osmerus lemniscatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 236 (Martinique; 



after Plumier). 

 Saurus truncatus Agassiz, Pise. Brasil, p. 82, 1829, pi. xlv (Brazil). 

 Saurus limbatus Eydoux and Souleyet, Voyage Bonite, Poiss., 1841, p. 199 



(Hawaii). 

 Saurus tracMnus Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1842, p. 231, 



pi. cvi, fig. 2 (Nagasaki). 

 Trachinocephalus trachinus Jord.^n and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 



1900, p. 350 (Tokyo); Check List, 1901, p. 57 (Yokohama^ 

 Saurus brevirostris Poey, Memorias, II, 1860, p. 385 (Cuba). 

 Goodella hypozona Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1897, p. 250 (New Soutli 



Wales); young form. 



