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Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus), TAY ae ge. 3 
Head 3 1/8 to 3 2/5; depth 1 2/3 to 1B ; D.I,VI, 18 orig; 
A. III, 17; snout 4 to 4 1/8 in head; eye 3% to 4; maxillary 
3 to 3 1/8; interorbital 2 1/3 to 2 4/5, 
Body deeply ovoid, deepest at dorsal origin. strongly 
compressed, Head width 1 7/8 to 2 in its length, Snout ob» 
tuse, front profile nearly or quite vertical, length 2/3 its 
width, Hind eye edge about midway in head length, narrow 
free adipose-lid all around, Mouth small, lower jaw included, 
Maxillary little beyond front eye edge, to pupil in young; 
expansion about 2 in eye, Fine villiform teeth in bands in. 
jaws in young, disappearing with age, when jaw edges leather -« 
ye Interorbutal convexly elevated, Rakers 4 or 5+9 or 10, 
lenceolate, about half of filaments, which 1 1/3 iin eye, 
Scales finely adherent, simple, elongate, non-striate; circuli 
about 12 or 13; lateral line slightly more undulate with age. 
Dorsal origin about midway between preopercle ridge and caudal 
base, slightly advanced in young; front dorsal lobe about 2 in 
depth; front anal lobe 2 1/6 to 2%, caudal fin 1 3/5 to 2; 
pectoral 1 1/3 to 14. in head; ventral 1 7/8 to 2%. In alcohol 
brownish, sides and below burnished, ee aa te Rihand 
Onn RC IAA. Voorn , LRT rrr. tinge 3 
Trahinotus carolinus (Linnaeus) Yo 1357, MI 
Two from Rio “Yaneiro 20 or 21 m, ii We h ave comperd 
this with equally young material in the Academy from New Ser sey 
and find they agree. The smaller Brazilisn specimens show 22. 
