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supraoccipital crest; interorbital area flattish, with two low 

 ridges, a small foramen in each of these above front of pupil; 

 interorbital area much contracted anteriorly; a strongly pro- 

 jecting prefrontal process, which makes an acute angle with the 

 supraorbital. American shore fishes. 



273 Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus) 

 Scup; Porgy; Sand Porgee 



Xpanis cltrysops LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 471, 1766, Charleston S. C. 

 Spurns argyrops LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 471, 1766, Charleston S. C. 



young. 

 Labnis versicolor MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 404, pi. Ill, 



fig. 7, 1815, New York. 

 Sargus arenosus DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 91, pi. 22, fig. 67, 1842, Long 



Island, young. 

 J'ltgrus argyrops DE KAY, op. cit. 95, pi. IX, fig,. 25, 1842; adult; GUNTHER, 



Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 472, 1859. 



Sargus ambassis GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 449, 1859, New York. 

 Diplodus argyrops JORDAN & G-ILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 557, 1883. 

 Stenotomus argyrops GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 17, 1879, Cape 



Ann Mass. 

 Steitotomus cltryso<ps BEAN, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 142, 1888; 19th Rep. 



Coinm. Fish. N. Y. 261, pi. XIV, fig. 18, 1890; JORDAN & FESLER, Kept. 



U. S. F. C. 1889 to 1891, 507, 1893; BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



IX, 366, 1897; H. M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100, 1898; JORDAN & 



EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1346, 1898, pi. OCX I, fig. 544, 1900; 



BEAN, 52d Ann. Kept. N. Y. State Mus. 106, 1900; SHERWOOD & 



EDWARDS, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 28, 1901. 



Body ovate-elliptic, compressed, its greatest depth nearly one 

 half of total length without caudal; anterior profile steep, nape 

 convex, a strong depression above and in front of eye; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle one fourth of greatest depth, and equal to 

 postorbital part of head. Head short and deep, its length con- 

 tained three and one fourth to three and one half times in total 

 without caudal; snout one third as long as head; eye one fourth 

 to one fifth as long as head, much narrower than the preorbital; 

 mouth small, terminal, the maxillary reaching to below the pos- 

 terior nostrils; incisor teeth very narrow, almost conical; molars 

 in two rows above; cheeks short and deep, with four rows of 

 scales; top of head, snout, orbitals, and chin naked; gill rakers 

 small, about 6 + 10 on first arch; temporal crest obsolete; supra- 

 occipital crest continuous with the frontal bones; a procumbent 



