306 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Genus Roccus Mitchill. 
The Striped Bass. 
Roccus lineatus (Bloch). 
PLATE 48. 
Rock Fish. Rock. Striped Bass. 
Pleads 33) dept 34¢ see XE mre. aay Ad Tiler? si esealies 
56 in lateral line to base of caudal, and 5 more on latter; 
8 scales between origin of spinous dorsal and lateral line in a 
vertical series; 12 scales in a vertical series between origin of 
spinous anal and lateral line; mandible 2'/,) in head; fourth 
dorsal spine 275; first dorsal ray 2; third anal spine 334; third 
anal ray 2144; least depth of caudal peduncle 3'2; upper caudal 
lobe 1144; pectoral 214; ventral 214; snout 4 in head measured 
from tip of upper jaw; eye 314; maxillary 224; interorbital 
space 443. Body rather elongate, compressed, and greatest depth 
at origin of spinous dorsal. Back little arched. Head subconical,. 
profiles similar. Snout conic. Eye a little elongate, anterior. 
Mouth large a little oblique, and mandible protruding. Maxil- 
lary reaching past front rim of pupil or about first third of orbit, 
and its distal expension 11% in pupil. ‘Teeth fine, in bands in jaws. 
Teeth on base of tongue in 2 parallel patches. Nostrils close to- 
gether in front of eye above. Interorbital space wide and a little 
convex, Margin of preorbital, subopercle and suprascapula entire. 
Margin of preopercle weakly serrate. Gill-rakers 6 + 15, long, 
slender and longest about equals pupil. Scales ctenoid, mostly 
of even size, minute and reduced on base of caudal. Lateral line 
of simple tubes mostly concurrent with back. Origin of spinous 
dorsal midway between tip of snout and base of last dorsal ray, 
spines graduated from fourth which is longest. Rayed dorsal 
inserted midway between posterior margin of preopercle and base 
of caudal, and graduated down from first ray which is highest. 
‘For an interesting account, see Mease, Trans. Lit. Philos. Soc. N. Y., 1, 
1815, p. —. 
