CAEANGID^. 



1. TRACHYNOTUS FALCATUS *. 



Lahrus falcatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p_. 475 (1766). 



Gasterosteus ovatiis, Linn. t. c. p. 490. 



Scomler falcatus, Forsk. Descr. Anim. p. .57 (1775). 



Trachinot us falcatus, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iii. p. 79 (1802). 



Trachinotus teraii, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. viii. p. 418 (1831). 



Trachynotus ovatus, Gunth. Cat. Fish. ii. p. 481 (1860) ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, 



Ix. i. 1869, p. 709 ; Klunz. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. 1870, p. 449, 



and Fische Eoth. Meer. p. 103 (1884) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 332 



(1891) ; Steind. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 21. 

 Trachinotus maxillosus (non G. & V.), Bleek. Nat. Verh. Ges. Haarlem, xviii. 



1863, p. 78, pi. xvii. 

 Trachinotus martini, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ix. i. 1869, p. 711, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Fig.l. 



TracJiinoius falcatus, 

 St. Louis. ^. 



Depth of body If to 2 times in total length, length of head 3 to 3f 

 times. Profile of snout very steep, nearly vertical in adult ; eye as lon<^ 

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

 to interorbital width; maxillary extending to below centre or anterior 



* In view of the wide distribution and extensive srnonyuy of this species, I have 

 confined myself to references to African specimens, on wluch the present description is 



exclusively based. ^ 



