138 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
An example, 5 inches long, was seined atBeesley’s Point, September 
9, and numerous individuals were obtained at Somers Point, September 
16. 
25. Genes argenteus (Baird & Girard). 
Eacinostomus argenteus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 335. 
Numerous young individuals were seined at Beesley’s Point, August] 
10 and 11 , and near Somers Point, August 13. Xo adults were taken. 
The young were obtained again at Ocean City, August 16. 
The species is found almost everywhere. We took it, August 27, in a j 
muddy hole in one of the thoroughfares near Somers Point. 
26. Chastodon maculocinctus (Gill). (PI. I., fig. 4.) 
A single individual, If inches long, was taken in the seine at Bees- 
ley‘s Point, September 2. 
The general color of the sides was yellow, more persistent in alcohol 
on the ventral surface and caudal peduncle than elsewhere. 
D. XIII, 20 5 A. Ill, 18; lateral line, 45 ; third and fourth dorsal 
spines equal, and as long as the head without the snout. 
27. Sarda sarda (Bloch). Bonito. 
A half-grown individual was caught off Ocean City by Oapt. Thomas 
Steelman, of the menhaden steamer Nellie Eau'son. 
The species is known as u bonito” at Somers Point. 
28. Scomberomorns maculatus (Mitchill). 
CyUum maculatum Baird, Rep. Fish. N. J., 1855, 21 ; Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. 
Inst., 1855, 335. 
Professor Baird records two specimens taken during his stay at Bees- 
ley 7 s Point, and states that the species was scarcely known to the fish- 
ermen. The species is occasionally met with by the menhaden seiners 
off this portion of the coast, but we failed to obtain a specimen in our 
seines. 
A single specimen, Ilf inches long, was caught in a purse-seine by 
Capt. Thomas Steelman, of the steamer N ellie Raw son , after my depart- 
ure from Somers Point. 
29. Scomber pneumatophorus De la Roche. Mackerel. 
The Philadelphia Press, newspaper, of July 24, contains an account of 
the capture of about 50,000 mackerel by the menhaden steamer A. Jfor- 
ns, near Ocean City, July 19. 
The Philadelphia Record, newspaper, of July 27, records the capture 
of 6,000 thimble-eye mackerel, July 25, by the fishing schooner Peter 
Cooper , off Squan, X. J. 
Some of the mackerel caught by the steamer A. Morris were preserved ! 
in brine by W. B. Steelman. Upon examination I found them to be 8. j 
pnenmatophorus . The species is said to arrive usually in August. 
William Jeffries & Sons, dealers in fish and oysters, Indiana avenue, 
Atlantic City, stated to me that no mackerel have come into their mar- 
ket during the present summer from fishermen. The only catches they 
