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town in August, 1817, and by Captain Atwood. at Monhegan Island in 

 Maine. 



Family CARANGID^. 



86. Carangus hippos (Linn.) Gill. Crkvall^. Caranx defen- 

 sor DeKay, Zool. of N. Y. Fishes, 1835, p. 120, pi. xxiv, fig. 72. 

 Wheatland, Journ. Essex Co. Nat. Hist. Soc:, 1852, p. 124. A spec- 

 imen about eighteen inches in length was taken at Lynn Beach by 

 Joseph True and its stuffed skin is preserved by the Essex Institute. 

 This is the only instance of its occurrence north of Cape Cod. 



87. Paratractuspisquetus (Cwy. and FaZ.) ^i"^^- Jack, Yellow 

 Crevall6. ? Caranx chrysos Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 75, pi. 

 xiv, fig. 3. This species, cited by Storer, 1. c, as C. chrysos, is, un- 

 doubtedly, P. pisquetus, judging from the forty-eight plates in the lat- 

 eral line. He had seen a single individual from one of the bridges 

 between Boston and Charlestown. Capt. Atwood found Storer's C. 

 chj-ysos occasionally at Provincetown. A single individual was taken 

 in a net off Gloucester, Sept. 18, 1878. 



88. Argyriosna Yom.er (Linn.) Ciiv. & Val. Dollar-fish. Ar- 

 gyriosus unimaculatus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 78, pi. xiv, 

 fig. 2. The Peabody Academy has specimens collected by A. F. Gray 

 at Danvers, Aug. 26, 1876, and in North River, Salem, 1876, by J. W. 

 Kingsley. The Fish Commission obtained several specimens from 

 Magnolia and Gloucester, in 1878, and the species has since been 

 obtained at Halifax, N. S., by Mr. J. Matthew Jones. 



89. Seriola zonata {Mltchill) Cuv. arid Val. Banded Rudder- 

 fish. Seriola zonata Storer, Hist Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 79, pi. xv, fig. 

 5. Halatractus zonatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1862, p. 

 442. Storer records two specimens taken in the harbor of Wellfleet, 

 one in August, 1844, and one in November, 1849. Capt. Atwood, in 

 1856, records its occasional occurrence at Provincetown. In the 

 museum of the Essex Institute are two specimens, one from Beverly, 

 taken by Samuel Porter, May 16, 1866; another from North River, 

 Salem, taken by S. F. Goldthwaite. 



Family STROMATEID^. 



90. Palinurichthys pereiformis (Mitch.) Gill. Rudder-fish. 



Palinurus pereiformis Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 74, pi. xiii, 

 fig. 3. The Rudder-fish may usually be found in summer under float- 

 ing spars at sea. The Essex Institute has a specimen from Salem, 

 Aug. 6, 1855. 



91. Poronotus triacanthus (Peck) Gill. Butter-fish. Bhom- 

 bus triacanthus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1857, pi. xv, fig. 4. This 



