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Family XCVI. SCOMBERESOCIDiE. The Sauries. 



Genus 331. SCOMBERESOX Lacepede. Sauries. 



Scomberesox Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 344, 1803 {camperii). 



1096. Scomberesox saurus (Walbaum). Saury; Skipper; BUlfish. 



Atlantic Ocean, north of Cape Cod and France. 



Eaox saurus Walbaum, Artedi Pise, in, 93, 1792, Cornwall; after the Saury 

 Pike of Pennant. 



Genus 332. COLOLABIS Gill. 



Cololabis Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 176 (hrevirosfris). 



1097. Cololabis brevirostris (Peters). 



Coast of California; Tomales Bay and San Francisco. 



Scombresox brerirostris Peters, Monatsberichte Akad. Wiss. Berl., July, 1866, 

 521, Tomales Bay, California. 



Family XCVII. EXOCCETIDiE. The Flying-Fishes. 



Genus 333. FODIATOR Jordan & Meek. 

 Fodiator Jordan & Meek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1885, 45 {acutus). 



1098. Fodiator acutus (Cuvier &. Valenciennes). Sharp-nosed Flying-fish. 



Both shores of Tropical America; Gulf of California; San Luis Gonzales; 



Panama; Nice. 

 Exocoetns acutus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 125, 1849, Surinam ; • 



Nice. 



Genus 334. PAEEXOCCETUS Bleeker. 



Parexocatus Bleeker, Nederl. Tydskr. Dierk., iii, 105, 1865 (menio). 



1099. ParexoccBtus mesogaster (Bloch). 



Tropical seas; East Indies and West Indies; Hawaiian Islands; Newport, 



Rhode Island ; Carolina coast. 

 Exocwtus mesoftaster Bloch, Ichth., pi. 399, 1795, Martinique; on a drawing 



by Plumier, in which the pectorals and ventrals are much too long. 



Genus 335. EXOCIETTIS (Artedi) Linnaeus. Flying-fishes. 



Exocwtus Artedi (Genera Piscium, 6, 1738), Linna-us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 316, 

 1758 (volitans). 



1100. Exoocetus volitans Linnaeus. 



Warm seas; Newfoundland; England; Hawaiian Islands. 

 Fxocoetus volitans Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 316, 1758. 



Genus 336. EXONAUTES Jordan & Evermann. 

 Exonautes, new genus (exsiliens). 



1101. Exonautes exsiliens (P. L. S. Muller). 



Open seas. 



Exocwtus exsiliens Philip Ludwig Statins Miiller, Nuremberg ed. Linnaeus 

 Syst. Nat., 209, 1776, Carolina. 



1102. Exonautes rondeletii (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Tropical seas; Floridq,; France; Acapulco; Westlndies; southern Europe. 

 Exoarfus rondelefii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xix, 115, 1846, 

 Naples; Sicily; Canaries. 



1103. Exonautes vinciguerrae (Jordan & Meek). 



Open Atlantic; southern Europe; Newfoundland; St. Martins; Gulf of 



Mexico. 

 Exococtus vinciguerra' .Tordan &■ Meek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 56, open 



sea oft" Newfoundland, 46° N., 61° W. 



