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CAKANGID.'E. 



1. TRACHYNOTUS FALCATUS*. 



jMlmis/alcalHS, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 47.5 (17GC). 



G(tiitero.iteti.<> ovatiis, Linn. t. c. p. 400. 



Scomher fahatns, Forsk. Descr. Anim. ji. '>! (177.T). 



y'rachinni IIS falrul 11.1, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iii. \>. 79 (1802). 



Trarhinotus terai t, Cav. & Val. Hist. Poiss. viii. p. 418 (IS.']!). 



Trarhi/nofus ovatns, Giintb. Cat. Fish. ii. p. 481 (18(30) ; SteinJ. Sit/.l). Ak. Wioii, 



Ix. i. 18C.0, p. 70;) ; Kliinz. Verli. zool -Ijot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 44'J, 



anil Fischc Kotli. Meer. p. 10:5 (1884) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. .'532 



(1891) : Stcind. Notes Loyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, j.. 21. 

 Trachinotus ma.rillo.ni-i (non C. & V.), P>loek. Nat. Yorli. Ges. Haarlem, xviii. 



18G;5, p. 78, 1)1. xvii. 

 TracJi'niotiis martini. Stcind. Sit/li. Ak. Wicn, ix. i. 1889, p. 711, pi. i. ll^'. 1. 



V\i!. 1 . 



Tnichi»olus ftihatKS. 

 St. Louis, i. 



Depth of body 1| to 2 times in total kngth, length of licad 3 to 3| 

 times. Trofile of snout very steep, nearly vertical in adult ; eye as long 

 as or a little longer than snout, o to 3^ times in length of head, equal 

 to interorbital width ; maxillary extending to below centre or anterior 



* In view of tliu wide distribution and extensive synonymy of this species. I liavc 

 confined myself to references to African specimens, on wliicli tlie present descrii)tiuii is 

 exclusivelv ba^ed. 



