1884.] 671 (Gill. 
II. STROMATEOIDEs. 
Stromateinse with restricted branchial apertures and without ventrals. 
There appears to be two types under this group, viz :— 
1. SrRoMATEOIDES,. 
Synonymy. 
<(Pamples, Cuvier, Régne Animal [2° ed.], t. 2, p. 212, 1829. 
<Pampus, Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, iii, Pesci, fol. 125,* 1834. 
<Stromateoides, Bleeker, Bijdrage tot de kennis der makreelachtige Vis- 
schen van den Soenda-molukschen archipel, pp. 19-20, 7 Verhandl. 
bataav. Genootsch., v. 24, 1857. 
<Stromateoides, Litthen, Vidensk Selsk. Skr. (5), Nat. og Mathem. Afd., 
v. 12, pp. 528, 602, 1880. 
Stromateus sp., Bloch, Giinther, ete. 
Stromateoides with higher body, elevated vertical fins, and prominent 
and extended trenchant dorsal and anal spines. 
Type &. cinereus Blkr., ex Bloch. 
2, CHONDROPLITES. 
Synonyny. 
==Chondroplites, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. [v. 14], p. 126 (not 
defined), 1862. 
Stromateus sp., Huphrasen, ete. 
Stromateoides sp., Bleeker. Litken. 
Stromateoides with more oblong body, little elevated dorsal and anal 
fins, and concealed and subcartilaginous dorsal and anal spines. 
Type C. sinensis = Strom. sinensis, Buphrasen. 
PsENOpSIS. 
Synonymy. 
=Psenopsis, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 157, 1862. 
Trachinotus sp., Zemminck and Schlegel. 
Psenes sp., Bleeker, Giinther, Litthken. 
Stromateinw with persistent perfect ventrals (I, 5) and about 6 normal 
spines constituting the front of the dorsal fin. 
Type P. anomalus = Trachinotus anomalus, T. and 8. 
The following genus may be mentioned in this connection because the 
Leirus perciformis as well as Psenopsis anomalus have been referred to it. 
Its affinities are uncertain, 
*“Diamo il nome di Pampus al secondo sottogenere in cui accogliamo quelle 
Specie che non hanno pinine ventrali, e portano innanzi ai raggi delle dorsali e 
dell’ anale parecchie spine terminate superiormente da una lamina tagliente,” 
Bonaparte, 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. Xxr. 116. 4G. PRINTED OCT. 29, 1884, 
