Genus TILURUS Kolliker. 



, Verh. phys. medic. Ges. Wurzburg. 1854. Bd IV. p. 100. 



Both species of this genus, T. trichiurus (Coooo) 

 Kaup and T. hyalinus FacciolA are represented in 

 the museums collection of Leptocephalids. 



1. T. trichiurus (Cocco) Kaup. 



Syn. Leptocephalus trichiurus Cocco, Giorn. Sc. Lett. Art. Sicil. 



1829. XXVI. p. 138. ' 



T. Gegenbauri Koll., 1.' c p. 101. 

 T. trichiurus Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish. Brit. Mus. 1856. p. 145. 



pi. XVI. f. 5. 

 Oxystomus Rafinesquii Facc, Naturalista Sic. 1882. Anno I. 



N:o 8. p. 188. t. VII. f. 2. 



There are five examples of this species: in the 

 collection ; four of these Dr. Appellof collected at 

 Messina in 1888 and the remaining one was obtained 

 by Dr. Bovallius in the harbour of Messina on the 

 13 th of Feb. 1891. Two of the former ones are in 

 a very bad state, and hence their measurements could 

 not be taken. 



a, b) Messina. A. Appellof. 2 specimens. 1888. 



a) b) 



mm. mm. 



Length of body 309 300 



Greatest height of body 9 8 



