140 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Food: Small Crustacea, annelids, lamellibranchs, small gasteropods. 

 Rate of Growth: Adults, ten inches; only the young found in the 

 north. Specimens at Woods Hole range from one to three inches. 



148. Ceratacanthus schoepfli (Walbaum). Foolfish; Filefish. 



Geog. Dist.: Maine, to Florida and Texas. Recorded from Portland, 

 Maine (Storer); from several localities on the Massachusetts shore 

 (Kendall, 1908) ; and in Connecticut, from Long Island Sound, Strat- 

 ford, and Stonington (Linsley, 1844). Common on Long Island shore 

 (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: Occasionally taken in August and September. Speci- 

 men from Newport in the U. S. National Museum. (Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1880, 76.) Four taken in traps in Narragansett Bay during 

 August, 1905. October 9, 1905, a young specimen taken in a trap at 

 Dutch Island, and August 23, 1905, a specimen was taken in a trap 

 near the north end of Conanicut Island. 



Reproduction: Probably spawns in mid-ocean (Goode). 



Food: Small crustacea, jelly-fishes, ctenophores, hydroids. 



Rate of Growth: One specimen, four inches long, taken in a trap at 

 Goose Neck, near Wickford, October 9, 1905. Young, one to four 

 inches long, common under gulfweed in summer. Young rather 

 common at Gravesend Bay, Long Island, from August to November; 

 none over nine inches long (Bean, 1903). At Woods Hole, specimens 

 from three to eighteen inches long are common in August and Sep- 

 tember (Smith, 1898). Adults reach a length of 24 inches. 



OSTRACIID.^. The Trunkfishes. 



149. Lactophrys trigonus (Linnaeus). Trunkfish; Shell-fish. 



Geog. Dist.: West Indies north to Woods Hole. Reported from 

 Marthas Vineyard (Storer, 1839); Holmes Hole (B. S. N. H.); Woods 

 Hole (Smith, 1898). Recorded once on Long Island (Bean, 1903). 



Habitat: The young at Woods Hole mentioned by Dr. Smith may be 

 seen on quiet days "singly or in scattered bodies, in the eel-grass 

 about the wharves. They are taken under the gulf weed, in the surface 

 tow-nets and in shore seines." 



Season in R. I.: Recorded from Narragansett Bay (R. I. Fish Com., 

 1899). 



Rate of Growth: Young specimens ^ to 1 inch long are common from 

 July to October at Woods Hole in eel-grass and around wharves 

 (Smith). At Gravesend Bay a specimen ^-inch long was found in 



