298 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
This interesting fish is only known from our limits by the 
record of the above example. It is a pelagic form of the warmer 
Atlantic waters and is evidently but a straggler to our shores. 
Said to reach a length of 6 feet. 
Istiophorus nigricans Fowler, Science, XXIV, 1906, November 
gth, p. 596. 
Family CARANGIDA. 
Seriola zonata (Mitchill). 
Harde Pail: 
Seriola lalandi Valenciennes. 
Hard) aal: 
Flead 34 ; depth 31/,; D. 1, VI-l, 34, 1;.A. I-1, 22,1; scales 
about 175 in lateral line to base of caudal and about a dozen 
somewhat enlarged on latter; about 24 scales between origin of 
spinous dorsal and lateral line in a vertical series; about 34 scales 
ina vertical series between origin of spinous anal and lateral line; 
mandible 2 in head; third dorsal spine 4%; first branched dorsal 
ray 27/;; first branched anal ray 27%; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 6; lower caudal lobe 114; pectoral 21/,; ventral 174; 
snout 3 in head measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 5; max- 
illary 27/,; interorbital space 31/,. Body elongate, fusiform, 
well compressed, and profile similar. Head compressed and 
upper profile a little more convex than lower, Snout convex over 
surface, and broad as long. Eye rounded, a little anterior, high, 
_ and adipose eyelid rather thick, though not encroaching much on 
iris. Mouth horizontally inclined, mandible protruding a little, 
and lips fleshy. Maxillary reaches first ?/; in length of iris, and 
with its distal expansion nearly equal to orbit. Width of sup- 
plemental maxillary about 24 of pupil, which is elongated simi- 
larly to orbit. Broad bands of villiform teeth in jaws, on vomer, - 
palatines and tongue. ‘Tongue rather long, rounded in front, 
and free. Nostrils together, of similar size, near last third in 
