46 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



rige 8 mm. lange Larve abgebildet, welche schon den Dotterrest ver- 

 loren hat und offenbar i^lanktonisch gefischt wurde, obwohl sie ge- 

 gen die iilteste Ryder'sche Larve in der Entwickelung der Flossen zu- 

 rucksteht." (Ehrenhamn, T. c, 45.) 



Compare also Ryder (loc. cit.), who shows a figure of a specimen 

 ^-inch long with the yolk sac still fixed to its attachment. The larvae 

 of this species, according to my own observations, do not become 

 released from their attachment and become free-swimming until 

 about 15 or 16 mm. in length. At Beaufort, N. C, Gudger 

 found that at hatching the young toadfish are from 16 to 19 mm. 

 long. 



Motella argentea. 



"Es sei erwahnt, dass auch Agassiz (1882) 2 Jungendformen einer 

 amerikanischen Phycis-Art abgebildet und als Motella argentea 

 beschrieben hat." (Ehrenbaum, op. cit. X., 1909, 276). 



Pomatomus saltatrix. 



With regard to this species, Agassiz and Whitman say that the eggs 

 are found from the middle of June to the middle of August. State- 

 ments of other observers, however, seem to indicate that the bluefish 

 spawns earlier in the season, probably in the spring, before it arrives 

 on our shores. Smith says that at Woods Hole a few bluefish have 

 ripe spawn in them when they begin to arrive in May and June, al- 

 though roes have been found in bluefish at Nantucket as late as July 

 15th. 



Young specimens from one to two inches long are common in 

 Narragansett Bay in June, and young three to five inches long are 

 abundant along the whole coast in July and August. These facts 

 show that the identification of the eggs and young described by 

 Agassiz and Whitman as belonging to the bluefish is questionable 

 and requires corroboration. 



