202 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
(3) Mullet spawn in salt water on a falling temperature, spawning 
later as you go south ; commencing in the St. John’s, Mosquito Inlet, 
and at Cedar Keys, about December 1, and continuing until the 31st; at 
Charlotte Harbor about December 20, and continuing until January 20. 
(4) Having failed to obtain any ripe fish it is impossible to say what 
style of apparatus would be required for the propagation of mullet, or 
whether their eggs sink or float. 
(5) Charlotte Harbor is unquestionably the point where mullet are 
most abundant, and the best adapted for fish-cultural work, two large 
ranches being worked at the main entrance to the bay, and sixty or 
seventy gill-nets fished in salt and brackish water from the passes to 
Punta Gorda. The vessels engaged in this work could lay in either 
salt or brackish water as the work required. 
Washington, D. C., February 21, 1888. 
49.— NOTE ON TME OCCURRENCE OF THE ©PAM, LAMPRI8 GUTTA- 
THIS, ON TSEE GRANR EA1VK8. 
By DAVID S. JORDAN. 
I have received from Hon. Everett Smith, of Portland, Me., the de- 
scription and figure of a “sunfish” recently brought to the Portland 
market, and reported to have been taken off the ‘‘Grand Banks.” Mr. 
Smith gives the following description: 
“Length, 60 inches; vertical depth, 25 inches; skin smooth, without 
scales; mouth, small; opercles, very large; color, steel blue, irides- 
cent, silvery on lower parts, variegated over whole body by oblong, 
whitish spots of one inch and less in length; fins, yellow.” 
From this description and an outline drawing kindly furnished by 
Mr. Smith, it is evident that the species is the Opah, Lampris guttatus , 
Betz., a rare pelagic fish, once before recorded from the Newfoundland 
Banks. 
Bloomington, Xnd., October 26, 1888. 
