2 CARANGID.E. 



1. TRACHYNOTUS FALCATUS *. 



Labrus falcatus, Liun. Syst. Nat. i. p. 475 (1766). 



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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

 Trachinotus maxillosus (non C. k V.), Bleek. Nat. Verh. Ges. Haarlem, xviii. 



1863, p. 78, pi. xvii. 

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



Fig. 1. 



Trachinotus falcatus. 

 St. Louis, i. 



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

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

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

 to interorbital width ; maxillary extending to below centre or anterior 



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

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

 exclusively based. |^#*M 



