334 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Genus Lrerostomus Lecépéde. 
The Goodies. 
Leiostomus xanthurus Lacépéde. 
PLATE 65. 
Spot. Cape May Goody. Goody. Porgy. 
Hlead.24 ;. depth,2*7,:.D. X—I, 21; 13 A, [io re, 7 ;/scalestca 
in lateral line to base of caudal, and 4 more in latter; 12 scales 
between origin of spinous dorsal and lateral line; 14 scales in a 
vertical sertes between origin of spinous anal and lateral line; 
snout 3% in head; eye 4; maxillary 2% ; interorbital space 334 ; 
fourth dorsal spine 134; third dorsal ray 2%; second anal spine 
4% ; second anal ray 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 25% ; upper 
caudal lobe 1; pectoral 1% ; ventral 1°/;. Body short, deep, much 
compressed, ovate-elliptical, and predorsal region trenchant. 
Back elevated. Head obtuse, profile above steep, convex and 
depressed a little over eye. Snout short, obtuse, projecting be- 
yond upper jaw. Eye circular, high and anterior. Mouth 
small, horizontal, inferior. Maxillary extending to middle of 
orbit. Lips a little fleshy. A band of feeble teeth in upper jaw, 
lower obsolete or absent. Nostrils separated, in front of eye. 
Interorbital space a little convex. Preopercle entire. Gill-rakers 
10 + 23, lanceolate, short, longest about 34 of pupil. Scales 
small on predorsal region, bases of rayed dorsal, anal and caudal. 
Body scales disposed in oblique series not parallel with curve of 
lateral line. Tubes of lateral line a little branched. Origin of 
spinous dorsal just behind that of pectoral, and anterior spines 
highest. Origin of rayed dorsal about midway between posterior 
nostril and base of caudal, and a little higher anteriorly. Origin 
of anal a little nearer base of caudal than origin of pectoral, 
second spine about °/,; length of first ray, which is longest. 
Caudal slightly emarginate, and upper lobe produced a little be- 
yond lower. Pectoral 1% in space to anal. Ventral inserted a 
little behind origin of pectoral, and reaching 1% in space to anal. 
Color dull bluish on back, below silvery. On back 16 narrow 
