42 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1889. 



NOTE ON ELAGATIS BIPINNULATUS. 

 BY SETH E. MEEK AND CHARLES H. BOLLMAN. 



While Mr. Meek was in the employ of the New York State Fish 

 Commission, during the summer of 1886, it was his privilege to ex- 

 amine two specimens of Elagatis taken off Loug Island. So far as 

 we know, this is the first positive record of the species on the United 

 States coast. 1 



Dr. Jordan visited the Key West and Havana markets during 

 December, 1883, and January, 1884, and in neither of them found 

 any specimens of Elagatis. Our specimens agree very well with 

 Prof. Poey's description of Seriola pinnulatus, and there seems to be 

 no doubt that the West Indian E. bipinnulatus is identical with the 

 East Indian species E. bipinnulatus, as Liitken has already indicated. 



The following is the synonymy of Elagatis, with that of its single 

 known species. 



ELAGATIS. 



1835. — Elagatis Bennett, Whaling Voyage, 11,283 (bipinnulatus). 



1854. — Seriolichthys Bleeker, Naturk. Tidschr. Ned. Ind., 1, 

 195 (bipinnulatus). 



1860. — Decaptus Poey, Memorias, 11, 374 (pinnulatus, nonem 

 nudum). 



Type Seriola bipinnulata Quoy and Gaimard. 



Elagatis bipinnulatus Bennett. 



The Yellow-tail. 



Seriola bipinnulata Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uran., Zool., 1, 

 363, pi. 61, fig. 3, 1824; Cuvier, Regne Anim. 111. Poiss. 130, 18; 

 Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fish. 72, 1841 (Keeling Islands). 



Elagatis bipinnulatus Bennett, Whaling Voy., 11, 283, 1835; 

 Poey, Enumeratio Pise. Cubensium, 83, 1875. 



Seriolichthys bipinnulatus Bleeker, Nat. Tidschr. Ned. Ind. 4, 

 196, 1854; Bleeker, Nat. Tidschr. Ned. Ind., 392, 1858; Giinther, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 468, 1860. 



Seriola pinnulata Poey, Memorias, 11, 233, 1860 (Havana). 



Decaptus pinnulatus Poey, Memorias, 11, 374, 1860. 



1 Stearns' note in regard to the occurrence of this species at Key West 

 apparently has reference to Aligoplites samus, and not to the Elagatis (Nat. Hist. 

 Aquat. Animals. 332, 1884). 



