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Family CXXXIV. STEINEGERID.^. 



Genus 440. STEINEGERIA Jordan & Evermann. 



Steinegeria Jordan & Evermann, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 467 (rubescens). 



1387. Steinegeria rubescens .Jordan Sc Evermann. 



Gulf of Mexico. 



Steinegeria nibescena Jordan & Evermann, Proc. W S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 467, 

 Snapper Banks, off Peusacola, Florida. 



Family CXXXV. CBNTROLOPHID^. The Rudder-Fishes. 



Genus 441. CENTROLOPHUS Lac6p6de Black Ruffs. 



Centrolophm Lac(5pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 441, 1803 (nhjer). 



1388. Centrolophus niger (Gmelin). Blackfish ; Black Bnffe ; liorlase. 



Coasts of sonthern Europe; Dennis, Massachusetts. 

 Perca niger Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1321, 1788, Cornwall. 



Genus 442. PALINURICHTHYS Bleeker. 



PalinHriehlhiiii Bleeker, Enum. Spec. Pise. Arch. lud., 22, Noveml)er. 1859, 



{percij'ormis). 



1389. Palinurichthys perciformis (Mitchill). Rudder-fish ; Log-fish. 



Atlantic Coast of North America, from Cape Hatteras to Maine; Cornwall. 

 •C'ory2'''ewai'e''C'/ormi3 Mitchill, Am. Month. Mag., II, 1818, 244, N. Y. Harbor. 



Family CXXXVI. STROMATEIDiE. The Piatolas. 



Genus 443. RHOMBUS LacspMe. Butter-fishes. 



Rhombus Lact^pcde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 321, INOO (alepidotus). 



Subgenus BHOMBCS Lac<Spfe(le. 



1390. Rhombus paru (Linnaeus). Harrest-fish; Pappy-fish. 



South Atlantic Coast of United States, West Indies, Cape Cod to Jamaica 



and Brazil. 

 Stromateus paru Linnteus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 248, 17.')8, .Jamaica; based on 



Sloane. 



1391. Rhombus xanthurus (Quoy & Gaimard). 



('oa3t of South America, Cayenne to Montevideo. 



Seserinus xanihurun Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Freyc, ZooL, 384, 1824, Brazil. 



Subgenus PALOMETA Jordan & Evermann. 



Palomcta .Jordan & Evermann, Fishes N. and M. A., 966, 1896 (palowefa). 



1392. Rhombus palometa (Jordan & Bollman). 



Pacific Ocean, oft" Colombia. 



Stromateus palometa Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1889, 156, oft' coast 

 of Colombia, 8^ 16' 30" N., 79° 37' 45" W., at Albatross Station 2804. 



1393. Rhombus medius (Peters). Palometa. 



Pacific Coast of North America, Mazatlan to Panama. 



Stromateus medius Peters, Berl. Monatsb., 1869, 707, Mazatlan, Mexico. 



1394. Rhombub similUmus (Ayres). California Pompano. 



Pacific (Joast of United States, Pnget Sound to San Diego. 

 Porouolus .simillimus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1860, 84, San Francisco. 



Subgenus PORONOTUS Gill. 



Poronofus Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. Am.. 35, 1861 (Iriacanthus). 



1395. Rhombus triacanthus(Pe('k). Dollar-fish; liar vest -fish; Butter-fish; Lafayette. 



Nova Scotia to Florida. 



Stromateus trxacanthus Peck, Mem. Am. Ac, ii, part 2,48, pi. 2, (ig. 2, 1800, 

 Piscataqua River, New Hampshire. 



