148 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Professor Baird’s specimens were about 1 inch long. The dorsal of his 
examples had a large black spot posteriorly and immediately anterior 
to it a white one. 
74 . Fundulus heteroclitns (Linnaeus). 
Fundulus zebra Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 342. 
Found everywhere with the preceding. 
75 . Fundulus diaphanus Le Sueur. 
Fundulus diaphanus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 343. 
Fundulus multifasciatus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 344. 
Seined in Gravelly Bun, September 6. Common. 
76 . Cyprinodon variegatus Lacdphde. 
Cyprinodon ovinus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 345. 
Numerous examples were seined in salt ponds near Somers Point, 
August 13. Among them were some very large males. The species 
was associated with Lucania , Fundulus , Menidia , and Mugil. 
A few examples were seined, September 16, in ditches near Ocean 
City. For its associates see under Gobiosoma. 
77 . Lucania parva (Baird and Girard). (Plate II, fig. 18.) 
Cyprinodon parvus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 345. 
Found abundantly in salt ponds near Somers Point, August 13. 
Seined in small numbers in ditches near Ocean City, September 16. 
See Gobiosoma for a list of its associates. 
78 . Synodus foetens (Linnaeus). 
Saurus mexicanus Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 346. 
Adults and young of this species are rather common in this region. 
Professor Baird found a single specimen only in 1854. The species is 
common also in Great South Bay, Long Island. 
AtP>eesley’s Point, September 2, 1887, a small individual was found 
to have swallowed a Pleuronectes americanus , which distended the 
stomach of its captor laterally to nearly twice its normal width. 
Abundant in thoroughfares near Somers Point August 30. One in- 
dividual taken is 7| inches long. Some very large ones have been 
seen; an example caught at Beesley’s Point, September 9, is nearly 9 
inches long, and we have secured some larger than this. 
The species is unknown to the fishermen. 
79 . Etrumeus teres (DeKay). 
Alosa teres Baird, Rep. Fish. N. J., 1855, 35; Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 
1855, 349. 
Professor Baird’s remarks are as follows: 
A number of specimens of this rare species were found one day in the edge of the 
surf along the beach; they seemed to be very weak, and died soon after their capt- 
ure. 
A single specimen, 5 J inches long, was seined by Capt. Thomas Steel- 
man after my departure from Somers Point. 
