336 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
of soft dorsal, and coloration with dark markings often obsolete. 
Known from Dr. Bean’s record of 2 examples taken in the 
Great Egg Harbor Bay. 
Menticirrus alburnus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 
I4I. 
Menticirrhus saxatilis (Schneider). 
PLATE 67. 
King Fish. Hake. Barb. 
Head 3%; depth 4; D. IX-I, 24,1; A. I, 8; scales 53 in lateral 
line to base of caudal and 5 more on latter; 8 scales in vertical 
series between origin of spinous dorsal and lateral line; 13 scales 
in a vertical series between origin of anal and lateral line; 
snout 3% in head; eye 6%; maxillary 25; interorbital space 
324; third dorsal spine 1°/,; third anal ray 234; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 3; pectoral 114; ventral 134. Body elongate, 
well compressed, back well elevated with convex profile so that 
greatest depth falls about middle of base of spinous dorsal. Head 
obtusely conic in front, narrowed somewhat above, broader be- 
low, and upper profile evenly though slightly convex from tip of 
snout to origin of spinous dorsal, very slightly depressed over 
eyes. Snout bluntly convex and projecting beyond tip of upper 
jaw. Eye a little elongate, high and well anterior. Mouth hori- 
zontal, anterior, and with rather narrow fleshy lips, papillose in- 
side. Maxillary reaching opposite posterior margin of pupil. 
Teeth fine, in bands in jaws, outer series of upper a little enlarged. 
A single short thick fleshy barbel at symphysis of mandible below. 
Interorbital space rather broad and a little convex. Anterior nos- 
tril a little posterior in snout, and posterior higher, much larger 
and obliquely oval. Opercular spines weak, short. Margin of 
preopercle thin, with slight denticles. Gill-rakers 1v + rv short 
rounded fleshy tuebrcles. Scales rather large, narrowly imbri- 
cated, finely ctenoid, becoming noticeably smaller and crowded 
on base of rayed dorsal, caudal and pectoral. Head scaled, except 
jaws, lower surface of snout and head, and maxillary. Lateral 
line of arborescent tubes and concurrent with dorsal profile. 
Spinous dorsal elevated anteriorly, inserted a little nearer origin 
of anal than tip of snout or a little behind that of pectoral. Rayed 
