264 REPORT OF NEW: JERSEY STATE, MUSEUM. 
Color of the above in life a beautiful shining silvery-white, 
lower surface opaque, and back with a slightly leaden tint. Fins 
all more or less translucent in color, dorsal, caudal and pectoral 
grayish, anterior lobe of rayed dorsal tinted dusky, and lower 
distal end of lower caudal lobe tinted with dull orange. Anal 
orange-yellow on anterior rayed lobe, becoming whitish margin- 
ally at this portion of fin and basally posteriorly translucent. 
Extremity of lower caudal lobe also whitish. Spinous dorsal 
translucent grayish. Pectoral with lower half pale or whitish, 
and bases of upper rays gray. Spinous anal whitish, membranes 
but slightly tinted with pale yellow. Ventral with chalky-white 
radii, lower outer portion of fin pale orange and otherwise trans- 
parent. Iris beautiful silvery-gray, variable. After death the 
body assumes various beautiful shades of purplish, coppery and 
bronze, etc. 
Abundant on sandy shores and in the surf at Ocean City and 
Stone Harbor. A valuable food-fish of firm, rich, delicate flesh. 
They are more tenacious of life than the silversides or hake. 
Lichia carolina Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 345. 
Trachynotus carolinus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 813.— 
Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 140. 
Trachinotus carolinus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 
p. 361.—Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 373. 
Family POMATOMIDZ. 
The Blue Fishes. 
Body oblong, compressed. Caudal peduncle rather stout. 
Head large, compressed. Mouth large, oblique. Premaxillaries 
protractile. Maxillary not slipping under preorbital, provided 
with large supplemental bone. Lower jaw projecting. Bands 
of villiform teeth on vomer and palatines, those on vomer form- 
ing triangular patch. Jaws each with a single series of very 
strong compressed unequal widely set teeth. Upper jaw with 
an inner series of small depressed teeth. Villiform teeth on base 
of tongue. Occipital keel strong. Free edge of preopercle pro- 
