76 CHECK LIST OF PISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



265. Chiasmodon niger Johnson. 

 Black Swallower. 

 Bathybial. 



Recorded from Magdalena, Madeira — the first specimen by Lowe in 1850, at a depth of 

 312 fathoms; and the species found again at the same locality by Johnson in 1862: a 

 specimen obtained by the 'Challenger' in the mid- Atlantic, on 26th August, 1873, 

 at a depth of 1,500 fathoms: two specimens found floating upon the surface of the 

 water — one near the island of Dominica, and the other, in June 1880, at La Have Bank,* 

 off Nova Scotia, by the Gloucester schooner Bessie W. Somers. 



266. Sphyraena argentea Girard. 

 California Barracuda. 

 Marine. 



Recorded from Vancouver Island, British Columbia ( — a specimen in the Provincial Museum, 

 Victoria): "Pacific coast from San Francisco southward to Cape San Lucas; very 

 abundant about the Santa Barbara Islands" (Jordan and Evermann). 



267. Palinurichthys perciformis Mitchill. 

 Rudderfish. 



Marine. 



Atlantic coast of North America southward to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina: "Two 

 specimens were brought to the Museum [at Halifax] some years ago by a fisherman 

 of Devil's Island" and during the summer of 1885 "they were very plentiful in our 

 [Halifax] harbour" (Honeyman, 1886, as Palinurus perciformis): Canso,f Nova 

 Scotia, and Banks of Newfoundland: " one specimen once taken in a live-box off Cornwall 

 [England], having drifted across from America" (Jordan and Evermann). 



268. Palometa simillimus Ayres. (Plate XIII, figures 156 and 157). 

 California Pompano: Poppy Fish. 



Marine. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound, southward to California. 



269. Poronotus triacanthus Peck. 

 Dollarfish: Harvest Fish. 

 Marine. 



Maritime Provinces southward to Florida. 



270. Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington. 

 Ragfish. 



Bathybial. 



Off the coasts of the States of Washington, Oregon, and California: given here as likely 

 to be found in British Columbian waters. 



*This specimen, which had swallowed a fish larger than itself, is figured in Drs. Jordan and Evermann's 'Fishes 

 of North and Middle America' vol. IV, pi. CCCXXXII. There is also a fine illustration of this species, which had 

 swallowed a Scopelus much larger than itself in Dr. Gunther's 'Introduction to the Study of Fishes' p. 311. 



+"The fishermen call this species the 'Rudder fish,' and are familiar with it, as they state that it follows their 

 sailing vessels into port from the 'Banks.' " Cornish. 



