THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 205, 
Dorsal inserted behind last fourth of entire length. Anal in- 
serted well before dorsal and larger. Pectoral reaching about 
one-third to ventral, which is inserted nearer base of caudal than 
eye, and extending a little over one-third to anal. Color greenish, 
scales and bones also same tint, sides silvery. A narrow silvery 
lateral stripe. A dark bar on opercle. Fins dull olive. Length 
224 inches. Delaware River. 
Abundant on our coast, and in the Delaware as far as Trenton 
at least, also in the Raritan. I have examples from Beesley’s 
Point, Corson’s Inlet, Barnegat, Sea Isle City and Atlantic City. 
Said to reach a length of 4 feet. A good food-fish, but avoided 
usually on account of the greenish color of the bones and flesh, 
especially by the ignorant, who regard it as poisonous. Prof. 
Ulric Dahlgren has taken the young in the summit-level of the 
Delaware and Raritan Canal with the yolks-sac still adhering. 
At Cape May small ones run ashore, though they seldom reach 
a foot in length, and they are also sometimes taken in seines. 
Tylosurus marinus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 
146.—Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360.—Smith, 
Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 369.—E. Smith, Trans. Linn. 
mmce Ne YoiX, 1867, pi 38. 
Belone truncata Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 346- 
Belone longirostris Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 
p. 95.—Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 815.—Abbott, Am. Nat., 
IV, 1870, p. 105. 
Belone acutirostris Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 
Tylosurus raphidoma (Ranzani). 
PLATE 109. 
Gar. 
Head 3'/,.; depth 151%4; D. 1, 20; A. 111, 19; pectoral 37% 
in head; ventral 47%; least depth of caudal peduncle 12; lower 
lobe of caudal 3; snout 174 in head, measured from tip of upper 
jaw; eye 7; gape of mouth 1°/,). Jaws rather short, stiff, rap- 
idly tapering in front, and lower protruding. Eye a little longer 
than deep, 2 in postocular region. A dark cutaneous flap attached 
