116 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



live fishes was put into the car to serve as food for the bluefish, 

 and during the next seven days, the bluefish showed an average 

 growth of about 10 millimeters, the average length being 184.3 

 millimeters. 



NOMEID^. The Nomeids. 



108. Nomeus gronovii (Gmelin). Portuguese Man-of -War-Fish. 



Geog. Dist.: Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in rather 

 deep water, swimming near the surface, very abundant in the Sargasso 

 Sea, common north to Florida and Bermuda, straying to Panama and 

 Woods Hole. At Woods Hole reported only twice, in Vineyard Sound, 

 1889, and off Tarpaulin Cove in 1894 (Smith, 1898). 



Habitat: Found living under Portuguese man-of-war. Pelagic young 

 are common in the tropics. Specimens ^ to 1^ inches long were taken 

 by the "Challenger," September 16, 1875. 



Season in R. I.: Reported in Narragansett Bay by R. I. Fish Commission, 

 1899. 



CENTROLOPHID^. The Rudderflshes. 



109. Palinurichthys perciforinis (Mitchill). Rudder-fish; Pole-fish. 



Geog. Dist.: Atlantic coast of North American from Cape Hatteras to 

 Nova Scotia. Reported from Canso (Cornish, 1907). Common at 

 Woods Hole from June to November (Smith, 1898). Rare at Long 

 Island, but common two or three miles off shore (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: Specimen from Newport in U. S. National Museum 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 91). Reported by R. I. Fish Commission 

 in 1899. 



Reproduction: Young in Atlantic under floating l^oxes and barrels 

 (Bean). 



Food: Small squids, snails, Crustacea. 



Size: One foot in lent^th. ' 



STROMATEIDyE. The Butter-Fishes. 



110. Peprilus paru (Linnseus). Harvest-fish. 



Geog. Dist.: Cape Cod to Jamaica. Usually rare at Woods Hole, but 

 occasionally common (Smith, 1898); taken at Monomoy (Kendall 

 coll., 1896). Not common along Long Island .shore (Bean, 1903). 



Se.vson in R. I.: Rare, onlj'^ a few appearing each season in June or July 



