THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 219 
Distinguished from the following species by the naked, or 
almost naked, soft dorsal and anal fins. 
They are apparently not as abundant at Cape May as formerly. 
They run in at night and disappear in the day. Last fall several 
big ones were taken in the surf. I have no New Jersey examples. 
The references to Mugil petrosus and Mugil plumiewt by Dr. 
Abbott are entirely provisional, as such species are not yet known 
from our coast. 
Mugil cephalus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360. 
Mugil lineatus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 816. 
Mugil albula Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 145. 
Mugil curema Valenciennes. 
Mullet. White Mullet. 
Head 324; depth 3%; D. IV-—I, 8; A. III, 9; scales 38 to base 
of caudal, and 12 between origins of second dorsal and spinous 
anal; snout 41%4 in head; eye 335; width of mouth 3%; inter- 
orbital space 2?/,; second dorsal spine 14%; first dorsal ray 144 ; 
third anal spine 224; first anal ray 134; lower caudal lobe 1; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 21% ; pectoral 13/,; ventral 17%. 
Body elongate, compressed, and lower profile more convex than 
upper. Head large. Snout short, comparatively narrow and 
obtuse. Eye rounded, near first third of head, and mostly hidden 
by broad adipose eyelids. Jaws about equal, and rami of man- 
dible would form an equilateral triangle. Teeth minute. Inter- 
orbital space broad and convex. Gill-rakers about 15 + 40, 
slender, and a little shorter than filaments, which equal orbit. 
Soft dorsal, anal and base of caudal densely scaled. About 23 
scales before dorsal. Scales on side of head large. Spinous 
dorsal inserted midway between tip of snout and base of caudal, 
second spine longest and close to first. Rayed dorsal inserted a 
little nearer origin of spinous fin than base of caudal, highest in 
front and margin concave. Anal inserted before soft dorsal, 
spines graduated to third which is longest, and fin otherwise 
similar to soft dorsal. Caudal large, broadly emarginate, and 
tips of each lobe pointed. Pectoral small, broad, inserted level 
with orbit and reaching about 54 of space to spinous dorsal. 
