45 



Rolacanthus tricolor, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 1803, 525-530.— Cuv. & Vat.., Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss, vii, 1831, 162. — Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. on Pares, Am^r. rlu Sud, 

 1855, 19.— Gunthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns. ii, 1861, 49.— Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. 

 Cuba, ii, 1861, 371 ; Rep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 352. 



Occasional. Mr. Jones captured a specimen in 1871, and the name 

 occurs on the local list. The species occurs throughout the West Indies, 

 an d is also recorded from Bahia and Trinidad. 



Chcetodon arcuatus, (Linn.) Cuvier, is also likely to occur in these 

 waters. 



XIPHIIDA 



The name of " Sword-fish " occurs on the local list. The common 

 Sword-fish (Xiphias gladius, Linn.) must occur in Bermuda waters, and 

 probably also Tetrapturus albidus, Poey, and Histiophorus americanus, 

 Cuv. & Val. 



The following reference to the Sword-fish occurs in " Newes from the 

 Bermudas/' a pamphlet dated Burmuda, July, 1609, and reprinted in 

 '• Force's Historical Tracts," vol. ii. 



Whale, Sword-fish & Threasher. — "The sword fish swimmes under the 

 whale, & pricketh him upward : The Threasher keepeth above him, & 

 with a mighty great thing like unto a flaile, hee so bangeth tbe whale, 

 that bee will roare as though it thundered, &doth give him such blowes, 

 witb his weapon, that you would thinke it to be a crake of great shot." — 

 (Pa^e 2 b) ) 



SCOMBBID^. 



ORCYNUS ALLITERATUS, (Bafinesque) Gill. 

 Mackerel. 



Scomber alliteratus, Rafistesque, Caratteri &c. Anim. Sicilia, 1810, 48. 



Orcynus alliteratus, Gill, Baircl, Rep. Sea Fisheries of Southern New England, 1873, 



802.— Baird, Rep. Sea Fisheries of Southern New England, 1873, 825. 

 Maquereaua Quatre Points, Geofer. St. Hilarie, Desc. Egypt. Hist. Nat. 1813, pi. xxiv, 



f. 3. 

 Thynnus Leachianus, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid. iii, 1827, 414. 

 Thynnus thunnina, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. viii, 1831, 104. — Bleeker, Verhandl. 



Batav. Genootsch. sxiv, 1851, 36. — Temm. & Schleg., Fauna Japonica 



Poiss. 1850, 95, pi. 48. — Guichenot, Rept. et Poiss. Exp. Scient. Alg6irie, 1850, 



Poiss. 57.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii, 1861, 364. 

 Orcynns thunnina, Poey, Rep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, 1, 1867, 321; ii, 1868, 362. 

 Thynnus Brasiliensis, Cuv. & Val., op. cit. 110. — Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat Cuba, ii, 1861, 



373. 

 Thynnus vagans, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii, 1830, 162, pi. exxxii. 



