THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 95 
peduncle 235; snout 4% in head, measured from tip of upper 
jaw; eye 3%; maxillary 2%; interorbital space 5. Body 
rather evenly fusiform. Head rather long, attenuated, and pro- 
files about evenly inclined. Mandible protruded well beyond 
snout. Maxillary reaching nearly opposite posterior margin of 
pupil, and its greatest expansion about 34 of orbit. Upper jaw 
emarginate in front. Interorbital space flattened. Opercular 
edge of gill-opening moderately emarginate posteriorly and be- 
low. Gill-rakers 10 + 20, flattened, equal to filaments. Peri- 
toneum white. Dorsal inserted nearer tip of mandible than base 
of caudal. Anal low, well behind dorsal. Caudal forked, lower 
lobe a little longer. Pectoral about °/, to ventral. Ventral in- 
serted a little behind dorsal, and reaching half way to anal. 
Color blush-silvery, becoming white below. Sides with faint 
longitudinal stripes, one to each series of scales, and darker on 
back. A blue-black blotch on shoulder. On back each stripe has 
scale it passes over with a dusky center, giving appearance of 
row of spots in each band. Fins pale, dorsal and caudal tinted 
with dusky. Length 113% inches. Barnegat Pier. 
This herring does not ascend the fresh waters to spawn, and is 
not a highly-valued food-fish. It differs from the alewife in the 
comparatively longer and elliptical head, and reaches a length of 
2 feet. The example described above was taken on a hook 
baited with “blood worm,” the holothurian known as Caudina. 
Pomolobus mediocris Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 821.— 
Pecan Bull U.S) B.Com. VIL, 1887; pmo 
Clupea mediocris Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 
268. 
Alosa mattowaca Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 
349. 
Melatta mattowocca Verrill, Am. Nat., V, 1871, p. 398. 
Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). 
River Herring. Herring. Alewife. 
Head 414; depth 334; D. 1, 14; A. u, 16; scales about 50 
in lateral series to base of caudal; about 14 scales between dorsal 
