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But Mitchill's shark was probably the Garcharias terrse-ncvse of 

 Richardson, and no recent collector has found C. isodon on our 

 coasts. 



2 Carcharias punctatus (Mitch. )• 



Described by Richardson as C. terrse-novae, from a specimen 

 brought by Audubon from Newfoundland. Scor]Dsena bufo C. and 

 V. (=; S. plumieri Bloch) and Maltlie cubifrons Rich. (= M. 

 vespertilio, var. radiata Mitch.) were in the same collection. 

 Audubon collected in Southern Florida also : his accuracy in 

 regard to localities is not above suspicion, and the three species 

 in question belong to the fauna of the Florida Coast. There is 

 not the slightest probability that ^ny of the three came from the 

 northern coast. 



S. Dules auTiga Cuv. and Val. 



A South American fish, introduced in our lists by De Ka5^,from 

 a specimen seen " several years ago in the collection of Mr. 

 Hamilton, who informed me that it had been taken in the harbor 

 of New Yoik." This is not probable. 



4. Paranthias furcifer (Cu^. and Val.). 



iBrachyrhinus creolus [C. and V.] Gill.) 

 Described by De Kay under the name of Corvina oxyptera, 

 from an old specimen in the cabinet of the New York Lyceum, 

 " obtained from the adjacent coast." The specimen was probably 

 from the West Indies, where the species is not uncommon. 



5. Epiaephelus niveatus Cu". and Val. 



A young specimen belonging (according to Goode and Bean) 

 to this species, was described by Professor Gill (Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1861, 98) under the name of Hyporthodus fiavicauda. 

 This specimen belonged to a collection sent to the Academy at 

 Philadelphia by Mr. Samuel Powell, of Newport, Rhode Island. 

 A list of this collection is given by Professor Cope (Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, 118). Eleven species are included in it. 

 All are represented by young specimens, which had probably 

 not strayed far from the place where they were hatched. All of 

 them are of tropical types ; six of them have not since been found 

 in the United States, and onl}^ two {Garanx setipinnis Mitch. = 

 Vomer curtus Cope, and Pseudojjriacanthus altus Gill) have since 

 been seen on the New England Coast ; while three others (Eemi- 



