THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. Bay 
dorsal inserted a little nearer tip of snout than base of caudal. 
Anal inserted behind origin of rayed dorsal, or about midway 
between posterior margin of preopercle and base of caudal, spine 
rather flexible, and middle of fin highest. Caudal rather broad. 
Pectoral °/, to anal. Ventral inserted behind base of third dorsal 
spine and reaching 54 to anal. Vent about 34 an eye-diameter 
in advance of anal. Dusky-gray, with oblique cross-bands of 
darker extending downward and forward. Anterior band at 
nape extends to meet second band so as to form a V-shaped 
blotch on each side. Dorsals, caudal and pectorals pale dusky, 
upper part of spinous dorsal deeper. Length a little over a foot. 
Beesley’s Point. 
Color of young in life a beautiful plumbeous above tinted with 
brownish and offset with fine greenish, purplish and bluish metal- 
lic reflections. Markings on back of darker or deeper brownish 
than body-color, and in some lights tinted with a little lavender. 
Fins dull translucent brownish, spinous fins with blackish-brown 
shades and soft dorsal and caudal with duller brownish. Paler 
markings on fins tinted with dull milky, dorsal spines burnished 
with greenish and bluish. Pectoral, ventral and anal edged with 
whitish, also radii of latter and first ray to each ventral. Greater 
distal portion of pectoral dusky with rest of fin of dull brassy- 
brown, base of pale. Ventral with body of fin of brassy-brown 
tint, rays more or less whitish, and membranes specked or dotted 
with deep dusky or blackish. Anal similar and somewhat creamy. 
Lower surface milky-white, specked or soiled a little with brown- 
ish laterally. Sides of head and body with bluish and purplish 
tints. Lips translucent. Iris warm brownish. Inside of gill- 
opening gilded brownish and dusky. Ocean City. 
An abundant food-fish of excellent quality on sandy-bottoms. 
My examples from Cape May, Anglesea, Stone Harbor, Sea Isle 
City, Ocean City, and Atlantic City. The young were found 
abundantly in the surf at Stone Harbor, Cape May and Ocean 
City, associated with Trachinotus carolinus, Menidia menidia 
notata and other small fishes. 
Menticirrus saxatilis Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 
141, Pl. 2-3, figs. 7-8. 
Menticirrhus saxatilis Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 
p. 362.—Smith, Bull. U. S$. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 377. 
22 MU 
