134 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
6. Alutera schcepfli Walbaum. Sunfisli. 
Found sparingly about the shores; no adults seen. Young examples 
were taken at Ocean City, August 1, and at Beesley 7 s Point, August 11. 
At Beesley 7 s Point, September 10, an example 9f inches long was 
taken. Seiners occasionally catch this fish, and it may be found lying 
on the beach where the seines are landed. 
The name “sunfish 77 is sometimes applied to this species at Somers 
Point. 
7. Sipliostoma fuscum Storer. Billfish. 
Syngnathus viridescens Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 351. 
Males, females, and young were abundant at Ocean City, August 4, 
The egg-pouches of the males are filled with eyed embryo, arranged in 
four series on each side. 
The species was abundant August 1, also, at the same place. It is 
common everywhere, and both sexes occur, but the males are more nu- 
merous than the females. 
A male 6J inches long, taken near Ocean City, August 31, has the 
pouch unsymmetrically filled, the left side containing more than two- 
thirds of the whole quantity of embryos and increasing in carrying 
capacity from behind forward. 
This is called u billfish 77 at Somers Point. 
8. Hippocampus punctulatus Guichenot. Horsefish. 
Two males and three females were seined at Ocean City, August 1. 
The pouches of the males are much enlarged, but not yet dehiscent. 
Dorsal of the 9 with a yellow margin ; of the $ with orange. In both 
sexes there is a submarginal dark band. A dark blotch at top of 
anterior dorsal rays in both sexes. Cirri more developed in one of 
the females than in any of the other examples. One of the males has 
body rings vertically striped with narrow, dark brown stripes. All 
have several linear stripes obliquely across opercles from eye, and 
usually two on the neck. Abdominal edge dark. One female has 
wider stripes on the throat, converging behind, flanked in front by a 
few irregular dark blotches, and behind by four interrupted lines. 
White punctulations most numerous posteriorly. 
August 23, 6 adult specimens, 2 of them males, were seined in one of 
the thoroughfares in the bay. The pouches of the males are well dis- 
tended with embryos. 
August 31, 4 adults, 2 males and 2 females, were seined in a thor- 
oughfare near Ocean City. The males had the pouches fully dis- 
tended. Both sexes have cirri greatly developed. 
A male seined at Somers Point, September 5, has the pouch empty 
and the anal fin well developed ; the cirri are all absent also. 
9. Achirus mollis Mitchill. 
Achirus mollis Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 350. . 
Xo young examples have been taken, and the adults are not common. 
Specimens were seined at Ocean City, August 1, and at Beesley 7 s Point, 
