322 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Family XCVI. SCOMBERESOCIDiE. The Sauries, 



Genus 331. SCOMBERESOX Lacepede. Sauries. 



Scombrretiox Iydc6\n'dt\ Hiist. Nat. Poiss., v, 'M\, 180i^ (ramjyerU). 



1096. Scoinbere.sox saurus (Walbaum). Saury; Skipjyer: UiUfish. 



Atlantic Ocean, north of Cape Cod and l'"'ranc'o. 



JSsox sauriis W;ill)anm, Artedi Pise, ui, 93, 1792, Cornwall; after the Saury 

 Pike of I'cnnant. 



Genus 332. COLOLAEIS (Hll. 



Cololabis Gill, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mns. 1896, 176 (breriroatris). 



1097. Cololabis brevirostris (Peters). 



Coast of California; Tomales Bay and San Francisco. 



Scomhresox brerirostri-f Petcr.s, Monatsbftrichte Akad, Wiss. Herl., .July, 1866, 

 521, Toniaks Bay, California. 



FamUy XCVII. BXOCCETIDiE. The Flying-Fishes. 



Genus 333. FODIATOR Jordan & Meek. 



Fodlafor Jordan A: ]SIeek, Proc. U, 8. Nat. Mns. 1885, 45 (acntus). 



1098. Fodiator acntus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Sliarp-tiosed Fhjiny-fish. 



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



Panama; Nice. 

 Exocatus acntus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist, Nat. Poles., 125, 1849, Surinam; 



Nice. 



Genus 334. PAREXOCffiTUS Bleeker. 



Parexocatm Bleeker, Nederl. Tydskr. Dierk., iii, 10.5, 1865 (menio). 



1099. Parexocoetus mesoga.ster (Bloch). 



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



Rhode Ishmd; Carolina coast, 

 Exoccrtus mesofiaster Bloch, Ichth,, pi. 399, 1795, Martinique; on a drawing 



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



Genus 335. EXOC(ETTJS (Artedi) Linnaeus. Fh/infj-fishef!. 



Kxocfi'tus Artedi (Genera Piscinm, 6, 1738), Linna^is, Syst, Nat., ed. x, 316, 



1758 (volitans). 



1100. Exocoetus volitans Linnirns. 



Warm seas: Newfoundland; England; Hawaiian Islands, 

 Exocastus volitans Linnicns, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 316, 1758. 



Genus 336. EXONAUTES Jordan & Evermann. 

 Exou antes, nevf genus (exsiliens). 



1101. Exonautes exsiliens (P, L. S. Miiller). 



Open seas. 



Exocntns exsUivus Philip Ludwig Statius Miiller, Nuremberg ed. Linnaeus 

 Syst. Nat.. 209, 1776, Carolina. 



1102. Exonautes rondeletii (Cuvier «fe Valenciennes). 



Tro])icalseas; Florida; France; Acajiulct); Westlndies; southern Europe. 

 Exocntns rondeletii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Iliat. Nat. Poiss,, xix, 115, 1846, 

 Naples; Sicily; Canaries. 



1103. Exonautes vinciguerrae (.Jordan A: Meek), 



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



Mexico. 

 Exocatus vinciynerrtv .Jordan & Meek, Proc, IT. S. Nat. Mns. 1885, 56, open 



Boa ofl" Newfoundland. 16 N.,61" W. 



