. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Exp., vol. ii, A 6 (post-larval stages). Depth 2 (or a little over), length of head 3J-4, in length of equal to snout, and to interorbital width, 3£-3i in length of reaching to below centre of eye. Vomerine and palatine teethoften obscure or lost in adult. Gill-rakers 12 on lower part of anteriorarch, their inner margins spinulose. D III 30-33, longest anteriorrays a little over \ length of head. A II 26-27, longest anteriorrays a little over J length of head. Pectoral about | depth of
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Exp., vol. ii, A 6 (post-larval stages). Depth 2 (or a little over), length of head 3J-4, in length of equal to snout, and to interorbital width, 3£-3i in length of reaching to below centre of eye. Vomerine and palatine teethoften obscure or lost in adult. Gill-rakers 12 on lower part of anteriorarch, their inner margins spinulose. D III 30-33, longest anteriorrays a little over \ length of head. A II 26-27, longest anteriorrays a little over J length of head. Pectoral about | depth of deeply forked. Scales : lat. ser. 80-95, without spines inadult. Whole head, except snout, inter-, supra-, and pre-orbital, andlower jaw, scaly. Pyloric caeca 4. (Plate XXIV, fig. 3.) PLATE XXIV. Upeneus vittatus (Forsk.) (after Day) .Emmelichthys nitidus (Rich.) (after Richardson)Brama raii (Bl.) (after Smitt)Ambassis urotaenia Blkr. (after Day) .Apogon queketti Gilch. (after Gilchrist) TEXT-PAGE 584592594642517 Ann. S. Afr. Mus., Vol. XXI. Plate XXIV. Neill <L- Co., Ltd. A Monograph of the Marine Fishes of South Africa. 595 Length.—Up to 700 rum. Colour.—Brownish, darker along back, with silvery sheen, especiallyon belly and the scales covering the fins ; vertical fins blackish,pectoral and ventral yellowish, iris black-brown, pupil light. Locality.—Table Bay, Agulhas Bank. Distribution.—Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean, Japan, XewZealand, down to 500 fathoms. The young has a deeper body, the ventral profile being much moreconvex than the dorsal, the scales bear a central hooked spine, andthe preopercular angle is spinose. An excellent food-fish. Gen. Taractes Lowe. 1843. Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 82. Palatine and vomerine teeth present. Scales rather large, withouthooked spines in adult. Dorsal and anal fins strongly falcate in line obsolete. Preorbital less than half diameter of eye. Atransverse groove above and below on c
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