THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. St 
On each side of mouth a large flabelliform moveable flap. Mouth 
very large, horizontal and terminal. Jaws terminal, lower a 
little advanced, unequal and very small asperities in place of teeth. 
These teeth distant in many rows, though in upper jaw hardly 
perceptible. Nostrils small, placed beneath anterior angle of 
flap near angle of mouth, and each covered by a small rounded 
lobe. No apparent tongue. Gill-openings 5, large, linear, sus- 
tained by cartilage half their length, placed very near each other, 
and fifth smallest. Spiracles behind eyes, near widest superior 
margin. Skin without tubercles or spines but rough to touch. 
Tail longer than body, armed with 1 or 2 spines, subcompressed, 
feeble and soft, without asperities or spinous tubercles. Dorsal 
fin small, triangular and placed on base of tail between ventrals. 
Pectorals equal in length and width, arcuated before, lunate be- 
hind, and a little dilated and rounded at extremity near ventrals. 
Ventrals small, rounded, narrow, not longer than pectorals, and 
united with them. Vent small, longitudinal and between origin 
of ventrals. Color above blackish, a little tinged with reddish, 
somewhat clouded, and branchial rays marked and distinct by a 
darker tint which followed direction of interior cartilages in 
arcuated lines. Below white, dusky on posterior margin with 
many darker spots, irregular in form and disposition, largest on 
abdomen, and smaller on margin and middle of fins. Width 15 
or 16 feet, length 7 feet 9 or to inches, tail 4 or 5 inches longer 
than body, mouth 2 feet 6 inches wide, eye 2 inches in diameter 
with pupil 9 lines, cephalic flap 2 feet 214 inches long from eye 
by 1 foot wide. Taken near the entrance of Delaware Bay. 
(Le Sueur.) 
From this it will be seen that Cephaloptera giorna Le Sueur 
did not come from Georgia, as supposed by Drs. Jordan and 
Evermann. 
Only known from our shores, aside from the accounts of 
Mitchill and Le Sueur, by the example taken about a mile off 
Stone Harbor which I reported in 1903. Mr. David McCadden, 
of Philadelphia, furnished the information concerning the ident- 
ity of this specimen, and together with the eye I am able to posi- 
tively determine the same. The note containing the record 
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