116 



similar tint is occasionally seen along tlie back and shoulders. 

 Dorsal, anal and ventral fins slightly tinted with yellowish. 

 Total length, IG inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 12. 16; P. 15; Y. 1.5; A. 3. 12; C. 11. 



Holocentrus surinamensis, Bl. Taf. 243. 



Bodianus triurus, Mitch. Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. New 

 York, I. p. 428, pi. 3. fig. 10. 



Lohotes surinamensis, Cuv. & Yal. Y. p. 319; Delvay, New 

 l^ork Faun. Fish, p. 88, pi. 18, fig. 49; Holbr, Ichth. S. 

 Car. p. 169, pi. 24, fig. 2. 



Occasionally caught in the lower part of the Chesapeake 

 Eay. 



XXX¥— POMATOMIDi;. 



POMATOMUS, Lac. 



F. saltatrix, 



Oblong, compressed, thicker above, and almost sharp be- 

 low. Head rather large, thick, with the line of the j^rofile 

 slightly convex, and the snout rounded. When first taken, 

 from the water brilliant silver-colored, which soon becomes 

 shaded with pale green along the back, finally darkening 

 into a greenish-blue, especially in the old fish, and hence it 

 is called "Blue-Fish." A dusky spot at the root of the pec- 

 toral fin. Total length, 2 to 3 feet. 



Fin-rays:— D. 8.27; P. 16; Y. 1.5; A. 2.28; C. 20. 



Gasterosteus saltatrix, L. Syst. Nat. I, p. 49. 



Scomher saltator, Bl. Sch. p. 35. 



Pomatomics sJcihjJjUce]). TV, p. 436, pi. 8, fig. 3. 



Scomber 2^lumheus, Mitch. Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. New 

 York, I, p. 424, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



Temnodon saltator, Cuv. & Yal. IX, p. 225, pi. 260; 

 DeKay, New York Fauna, Fish, p. 130, pi. 26, fig. 81; 

 Baird, Ninth Smithson. Keport, p. 331; Holbr. Ichth. S. 

 Car. p. 64, pi. 9, fig. 2; Cuenth. II, p. 479. 



Exceedingly abundant in Chesapeake Bay; isolated speci- 

 mens wander up as high as to the Susquehanna Kiver. 



''They have many of the habits of the Common Mackerel; 

 collect in great multitudes, often swimming near the surface 

 of the water, thus causing a thousand ripples, leaping at 

 times a foot or more into the air, whence they are called 

 'Skip- Jacks.' " 



