72 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Season in R. I.: Two young specimens, 2 inches long, taken by Samuel 

 Powell at Newport, 1860. (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 98.) Drs. 

 Goode and Bean report the capture of another specimen at the same place 

 in 1877. (Amer. Jour. Sci. & Arts, XVII, 1879, 545.) Also, three other 

 specimens of this species from Rhode Island are in the U. S. National 

 Museum; one 2^ inches long is from Tiverton, the other two, 3 and 3^ 

 inches long, taken at Point Judith. The first specimens recorded from 

 Woods Hole were taken in 1895; 8 or 10 other specimens taken in the 

 vicinity in the same year; 2 of these were 2f and 1 j inches long. 



111. Centropristes striatus (Linnseus). Sea Bass; Black Bass. 

 Geog. Dist. : Atlantic coast, Casco Bay to Northern Florida. 

 Migrations: Probably spends the winter in a torpid state around rocky 



bottoms without extensive migrations. (Goode.) Appears on the 



Jersey coast in April. 

 Season in R. I.: Arrives in May and is then most abundant. Leaves in 



October. 

 Habitat: Rocky bottom in cavities and under stones. 

 Reproduction: Spawns in June. Sexual differences are very marked, 



especially during the breeding season. 

 Food: The various Crustacea are its most important food; crabs, lobsters, 



shrimp; also squids, moUuscs, small fishes. 



113. Rypticus bistrispinus (Mitchill). 



Geog. Dist.: South Altantic coast of the United States in rather deep 



water, straying north to Newport, R. I. 

 Season in R. I.: One specimen was taken at Newport by Samuel Powell 



and described by Cope in 1870. (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, 119.) 



LOBOTID.E. The Triple-Tails. 



113. Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch). Triple-tail; Flasher. (Plate IV.) 



Geog. Dlst. : All warm seas. Cape Cod to Panama. 



Season in R. T. : The rarity of this species is shown by the fact that, accord- 

 ing to the Report of U. S. Fish Commission, 1901, only 6 specimens had 

 been recorded in northern waters in twenty years. September 10, 1901, 

 a specimen weighing 6 pounds and 22 inches long was caught in a trap off 



