New York, November 20, 1914. No. 12 



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Published to advance the Science of cold-blooded vertabrates 



A NEW RECORD FOR THE PROWFISH. 



Zaprora silenus Jordan 



In the Proceedings of the California Academy 

 of Sciences of 1896, (page 203, pi. 20), Jordan de- 

 scribed as new to Science a species of Scombroid fish 

 which constituted a new genus and family related to 

 the Icosteidae but differing from it in having pharyn- 

 geal teeth. 



In the addendum of the Fishes of North and 

 Middle America, Jordan and Evermann (Bull. 47, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 3, 1898, p. 2850, Vol. 4, plate 

 CLII, fig. 1) it is again described, and it is stated 

 that "only the type, 29 inches long, known." 



In Fishes of Alaska, Evermann and Goldsbor- 

 ough, it is mentioned and figured, and the statement 

 is made that it is "known only from 2 specimens, the 

 type and one other now in the Provincial Museum 

 at Victoria, both taken in Nanaimo Harbor, British 

 Columbia." 



In "Check List of the Fishes of Canada and 

 Newfoundland," by Andrew Halkett, Naturalist, 

 Department Marine and Fisheries, 1913, p. 77, it 

 states that "only two specimens are known, one from 

 Nanaimo, (the type) which is in the Provincial Mu- 

 seum, Victoria, and the other from the Straits near 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island." 



In April, 1914, Captain Andrew Weiding 



