144 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
51. Boleosoma olmstedi (Storer). 
Seven examples were taken in Gravelly Ena, September 6. For a list 
of its associates see Notemigonus chrysoleucus. D. IX, 15; 'A. I, 10; 
scales, 48. 
This species was not observed by Professor Baird in 1854. 
52. Boleichthys fusiform e (Girard). 
Boleosoma fusiformis Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 328. 
Four examples were seined in Gravelly Eun, September 6, associated 
with Boleosoma olmstedi. 
D. X, 12 ; A. II, 7 ; scales, 49 ; lateral line on 18. 
53. Hoccus americanus (Gmelin). Perch. 
Labrax mucronatus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 322. 
Seined in large numbers at Beesley’s Poiut, August 10 and 11, at the 
mouth of the river. Our examples are about 6 to 7 inches long. No 
young ones were taken. 
In several of the salt water creeks emptying into the bay we seined 
great numbers of white perch on the last of the ebb tide. In salt water 
the species is called u yellow perch 77 by some of the fishermen ; some- 
times u perch 77 alone is used, and the pronunciation is changed as if the 
spelling were “ peerch. 77 
The principal fishery for white perch is by means of gill-nets in win- 
ter. 
54. Hoccus lineatus (Bloch). Rockfish. 
Labrax lineatus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855,321. 
Small individuals, 8 inches long, were seined in the mouth of the 
river at Beesley’s Point, August 10. Examples weighing 2 or 3 pounds 
are being caught with the hook at Tuckahoe Eiver mouth, about the mid- 
dle of September. - 
This is the u rock 77 or u rockfish 77 of Somers Point, 
55. Elacate Canada (Linnaeus.) (PI. II, fig. 13.) 
A young example, 3J- inches long, was caught at Somers Point, near 
the club house, August 2, 1887, by Capt. Eichard Chamberlain. Ground 
color nearly black; a white stripe, about as wide ds pupil, from upper 
angle of gill-opening to caudal; another one, but narrower, begins at 
lower extremity of pectoral base, curves very slightly upward, fading 
out near the tail ; upper caudal lobe, with a narrow whitish margin 
along its upper surface, relieved by a trace of orange red at its base-; 
lower caudal lobe with a narrow orange-red margin; pectorals, vein 
trals, and caudal black ; back hides to a dark green ; belly, grayish 
white ; iris, golden bronze. 
This species has not previously been recorded from Great Egg Har- 
bor Bay, and the young seems not to have been described. 
Another example, 4 inches long, was seined in one of the thorough- 
fares in the bay, August 23. This has the same marking® as the first* 
