ADDENDA — SCHULTZ 



161 



p. 594, 1925) illustrates a 7K foot long "drum fish" that is P. 

 lanceolatus. 



Dr. A. Seale sent a photograph of P. lanceolatus to the U.S. National 

 Museum, on the back of which he wrote: "Weight 306 lb., length 

 7 ft. 3 in., caught near Carabow Is. in entrance to Manila Bay." 

 This is now in the division of fishes files. 



Boulenger (Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897, pp. 917-918, pi. 52) 

 reported on two giant sea-perch of tlie Pacific. He synonymized 

 Megaperca ischinagi Hilgendorf from Japan with Stereolepis gigas 

 Ayers from California. His California specimen measured 1.4 meters 

 or 55K inches in total length. Boulenger (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 7, vol. 19, pp. 489-491, 1909) verifies still further his proposal 

 that there is only one species of S. gigas. 



Table 138. — Measurements of three specimens of Promicrops lanceolatus from 

 Ejiiwetok recorded in thousandths of lengths 



Total length (T.L.) in mm... 



Standard length (S.L.) in mm 



Length of head 



Greatest depth of body 



Snout_ 



Snout tip to lower preopercular angle- 

 Eye 



Least width of Interorbital 



Length of maxillary bone 



Greatest width of maxillary bone . 



Length of maxillaries 



Tip of lower jaw to anus 



Greatest depth of head 



Least depth of caudal peduncle. . . 



Length of caudal peduncle 



Postorbital length of head 



Longest pectoral ray 



Longest pelvic ray... 



Longest soft anal ray 



Longest anal (III) spine 



Longest soft dorsal ray 



Longest dorsal (VIII) spine 



Standard lengths 



,626 

 352 

 385 



85 

 231 



29 

 104 

 185 



45 

 227 

 724 

 262 

 131 

 172 

 289 

 224 

 170 

 139 



62 

 123 



1,613 

 394 

 393 



79 

 268 



31 

 102 

 189 



126 

 142 

 236 

 189 



1,778 

 364 

 386 



93 

 264 



25 

 100 

 164 



45 



779 

 322 

 125 



157 

 150 

 136 



50 

 121 



57 



Total lengths 



1,994 



287 

 319 



70 

 190 



24 



86 

 153 



38 

 185 

 589 

 217 

 108 

 140 

 236 

 185 

 140 

 115 



51 

 102 



57 



338 

 338 



63 

 230 



27 



108 

 122 

 203 

 162 



2,070 



313 

 331 



80 

 227 



22 



86 

 141 



39 



668 

 276 

 108 



135 

 129 

 117 



43 

 104 



49 



Jordan and Richardson (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 37, pp. 435- 

 437, figs. 4, 5, 1910) reinforce the claim of Jordan and Snyder (Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 30, p. 841, fig. 1, 1906) that the two species are 

 distinct. The final answer to the problem has not been given because 

 of a lack of specimens from both sides of the Pacific. 



World Record Marine Game Fishes 1955 by Internationjil Game 

 Fish Association lists the largest specimen of Sterolcpis gigas that I 

 have observed in the literature. Eighty-seven inches in total length 

 and weighing 483 pounds, it was taken off Coronado Island, Mexico, by 

 R. E. De Groff. They do not list Promicrops lanceolatus, but their 



