136 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
2%; pharyngeal teeth 5-5. Body subelliptical, strongly com- 
pressed, and lower profile well convex. Head short, subconic, 
and lower profile more inclined. Snout short, broadly convex. 
Eye large. Mouth oblique, small, upper lip level with upper part 
of pupil. Maxillary not reaching eye. Interorbital space broadly 
convex. Gill-rakers 5 + 16, slender, and longest nearly equals 
diameter of pupil. Lateral line strongly decurved. Dorsal in- 
serted nearer base of caudal than posterior margin of eye.’ Cau- 
dal deeply forked. Anal begins just behind base of dorsal, and 
anterior rays elevated. Pectoral reaching 24 of space to ventral. 
Ventral inserted well before dorsal or about midway between 


Roach. Brama crysoleucas (Mitchill). (Young.) 
origins of pectoral and anal, and reaching about 24 of space of 
latter. Clear greenish on back, sides and lower parts silvery with 
golden tints on former. Fins yellow, dorsal and caudal tinted a 
little pale dusky. Length 7 inches. Morris County. 
In life the adult is olivaceous-brown with metallic.blue or bottle- 
green reflections, this color not extending below middle or orbit 
on side where there is a beautiful coppery longitudinal streak 
from eye till along upper side of caudal peduncle posteriorly. 
Jaws brownish. Lower surface white with silvery and brassy 
reflections, all however with a slight yellowish sheen in certain 
lights. Dorsal and caudal dull brownish-olivaceous, basally with 
