738 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



" This species the author has seeu a specimen of, in a small 

 collection made at Beesley's Point, and now in the museum of 

 the Philadelphia Academy." — [C. C. A.] 



DIPLODUS, Raf. 



(Archosargus, Gill.) 



D. probatocephalus, Walb. (oiicephalus, Gill., Spams, Sargus oris.) 

 Sheepshead. 



Grayish, with eight vertical black bands ; fins dark ; body 

 robust, very deep in old examples ; back compressed and 

 elevated ; profile very steep ; mouth low, horizontal ; incisors 

 broad, serrated in young ; cheeks with six rows of scales ; scales 

 on breast small and crowded ; dorsal spines high ; soft dorsal low ; 

 second anal spine strong. Dorsal spines, XII, 12; anal spines, 

 III, 10; scales, 7—45—16; length, 30 inches. 



" This fine fish is quite abundant and most eagerly sought 

 after. They are found on the coast from June or July, accord- 

 ing to the season, until October. Opposite the village of Barne- 

 gat this species is met with quite abundantly, and many are 

 taken by the professional fishermen during the summer months." 



OYPHOSUS, Lac. 



(Pimelepterus, Lac.) 

 C. bosqui, Lac. (flavolineatus, Perca sedatrix.) 



Dusky, with about twenty-five light stripes following the rows 

 of scales ; scales of back and belly smaller than on sides ; soft 

 dorsal and anal very low, the latter short ; caudal with lower 

 lobe longer ; top and sides of head and fins finely scaled ; incis- 

 ors lanceolate, with backward projecting processes. Dorsal 

 rays, XII, 12; anal rays, III, 11 ; scales, 10 — Q6 — 20; vertebrae, 

 9 + 16. Massachusetts to Panama. Common southward. 



Family SCI^XID^. 



Croakers. 



Skull cavernous ; head scaly ; no teeth on vomers, &c. ; lateral 

 line extends on to the caudal fin ; scales thin and ctenoid ; mucous 



