THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 263 
gray, below whitish. Fins grayish. Dorsal lobe a little dusky. 
Length 2% inches. Beesley’s Point. 
I have 3 examples collected many years ago by S. F. Baird at 
the above locality. 
Lichia spinosa Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 336. 
Trachynotus spinosus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868; p. 814, from 
Baird. 
Trachynotus rhomboides Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, 
W4g9;,l. 3; fe. 5. 
Trachinotus carolinus (Linnzus). 
PLATE 34. 
Common Pampano. Pampano. Butter Fish. 
iead22 > depih2: DT Viod, 25,1; Ai 1 225° sort 
4 in head; eye 44%; maxillary 3; interorbital space 3; third 
dorsal ray 134; third anal ray 124; lower caudal lobe 1; least 
depth of caudal peduncle 3; pectoral 1144; ventral 2%. Body 
oblong, comparatively robust in appearance, greatest thickness 3 
in greatest depth. Head rather small, blunt. Snout blunt, its 
profile to interorbital space nearly vertical. Eye circular, well 
anterior. Mouth nearly horizontal. Maxillary reaching in ver- 
tical nearly to front rim of pupil, its expansion equal to diameter 
of pupil. Teeth in minute bands. Interorbital space convexly 
gibbous. Gill-rakers 4-+ 7 short points. Scales minute and 
smooth. Base of first erect dorsal spine about first two-fifths in 
length of pectoral, spines well freed, and fifth erect longest. 
Rayed dorsal inserted about midway between posterior margin 
of eye and base of caudal, anteriorly elevated but without lobe. 
Rayed anal inserted a little posteriorly, or about midway between 
origin of pectoral and base of caudal, and fin similar to rayed 
dorsal. Caudal deeply forked, lobes pointed. Pectoral short, 
broad, two-thirds of space to origin of rayed anal. Ventral in- 
serted a little behind pectoral’s origin, a little over half-way to 
origin of anal. Color mostly silvery-slaty-gray above or on back. 
Pectoral and anal tinted with light orange-yellow. Length 43% 
inches. Ocean City. 
