270 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
It is known from our coast only from the record of Dr. Abbott. 
It is properly a native of southern waters and can only be said 
to be a straggler on our shores. 
Peprilus longipinnis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 812. 
Genus Poronotus Gill. 
The Butter Fishes. 
Poronotus triacanthus (Peck). 
Butter Fish. Harvest Fish. Dollar Fish. 
Head’ 3%); depth’ 2°7, > D. MWIAL v, 42) 13° Ay ones 
snout 374 in head; eye 344; maxillary 3; interorbital space 3; 

Butter Fish. Poronotus triacanthus (Peck). 
first branched dorsal ray 144; first branched anal ray 2; caudal 
I; least depth of caudal peduncle 334; pectoral 1. Body oval, 
much compressed, deep, and upper profile more evenly convex 
than lower. Caudal peduncle slender, compressed. Head deep, 
lower profile more inclined than upper, and upper convex. Snout 
very blunt, rounded in profile. Eye circular, a little anterior. 
Jaws short, about even. Mouth small, maxillary reaching about 
half way to orbit. Teeth a narrow cutting-edge around each 
jaw. Nostrils near together, in profile a little nearer tip of snout 
than base of caudal. Interorbital space convexly elevated. Gill- 
