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brilliant violet. Lips dusky. Dorsal largely jet- 

 black, paler or soiled dusky-gray in front. Upper 

 caudal lobe white, base blackish, lower lobe entirely 

 jet-black. Pectoral largely black, axil with violet 

 tinge, only lower edge and median portion of lower 

 rays gray-white or whitish. Ventrals with outer % 

 jet-black, outer and inner edges of fin whitish, median 

 rays basally gray and this shade extends to black ter- 

 minal blotch. Anal white, hinder outer terminal part 

 black. One example, 172 mm. long, found on the 

 beach in a tide-pool at Sea Isle City, September 14, 

 1915, by Master Edward N. Fox. This interesting 

 fish had evidently been left stranded by the tide, and 

 was alive when discovered. It had one pectoral fin 

 extended in making an effort to escape, suddenly 

 flying out of the pool and dropping helplessly on the 

 sand a few rods distant. It is the first example ever 

 recorded from the limits of the United States, and 

 also an addition to the fauna of New Jersey. It is 

 a well-marked species, readily distinguished by its 

 blackish color and the white half of the high dorsal. 

 At the same locality C entro prist is striatus, Chaetodip- 

 terus faber, Orthopi'istis chrysopterus and Leiosto- 

 mus xanthurus were also noted. At Ocean City a 

 .female Dasyatis say with two young, one Rhinoptera 

 bonasus, July 7, and three on September 15, an adult 

 Istiophorus nigricans, August 20, Trachinotus caro- 

 linus, eight Coryphaena hippurus, September 22, 

 Tautoga onitis, and many large Atutera schoepfii, 

 July 4, several of which bright golden-yellow. During 

 August at Anglesea, Euthynnus thynnus of 1,080 lbs. 

 weight, Hemitripterus americanus, Sphyrna zygaena, 

 Stenotomus chrysops, Batistes carolinensis and Pri- 

 onotus evotans strigatus. A few Chaetodipterus faber 

 at Atlantic City and on September 25, a large Lago- 

 cephalus laevigatus. Two examples of Epinephelus 

 niveatus are the first to be reported from New Jersey 

 waters Mr. W. J. Fox secured one 105 mm. long 

 September 26, at Sea Isle City, and Dr. R. J. Phil- 



