THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 217 
anteriorly elevated. Anal inserted before tip of depressed spinous 
dorsal or nearer origin of pectoral than base of caudal, and 
anteriorly elevated. Caudal forked, lobes not especially sharp- 
ened. Pectoral broad, reaching ventral. Ventral inserted nearer 
origin of spinous dorsal than that of pectoral, and reaching half 
way to anal. Color translucent sandy, scales on back edged with 
dull dusky or grayish. A silvery lateral band half width of 
orbit. Chin specked with dusky gray. Fins pale. Length 434 
inches. Ocean City. 
Color of the above in life translucent sandy-brown, edge of 
each scale on back margined darker with dusky dots. A narrow 
lateral silvery streak from axilla to base of caudal, sharply de- 
fined from back by a narrow streak of hyaline greenish on its 
upper edge along entire course. Fins translucent like body- 
color, and without markings. Along base of anal a series of 
dark. hyaline brownish-green dots showing through scales of 
body. Base of pectoral at shoulder-girdle tinted with dull amber. 
Top of head and side bright silvery-white and with emerald re- 
flections. Muzzle translucent brownish. Iris bright silvery. 
Peritoneum showing through bright silvery-white over whole 
of ceelome. Inside of gill-opening tinted with emerald and dusky. 
Very abundant on the New Jersey coast. I have taken very 
many examples from Atlantic City, Anglesea and Stone Harbor. 
Prof. Baird’s examples from Beesley’s Point, and others, are in 
the Academy’s collections. They are abundant in Cape May, 
and are also found in Delaware Bay. Now used as food or bait. 
Atherinopsis notatus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 
p- 338. 
Argyrea notata Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 816. 
Menidia notata Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 146. 
—Moore, Bull. U. §. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360. 
Family MUGILID. 
The Mullets. 
Body oblong, more or less compressed. Mouth small. Jaws 
with small teeth or none, and when present of various form. 
