THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 11 20% 
longest dorsal ray 124; longest anal ray 134; least depth of 
caudal peduncle 2% ; caudal 1; pectoral 14/;; snout 3% in head, 
measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 44%4; maxillary 2%; inter- 
orbital space 6. Body broadly rhomboid, strongly compressed 
and translucent in life. Head small. Snout obtuse. Eye a little 
elongate, anterior, lower and little in advance of upper. Mouth 
large, maxillary, reaching anterior margin of pupil of lower orbit, 
and its distal expansion 124 in same, also with a bony tubercle on 
its anterior end. Mandible projecting and with a knob protrud- 
ing from symphysis. Jaws with uniserial teeth, in a very narrow 
band in front. Interorbital space flattened. Gill-rakers 8 ++ 23, 
slender, longest 134 in orbit. Scales small, cycloid, and im- 
bricated in skin. Lateral line strongly arched in front, curved 
part 2% in straight part. Maxillary, mandible, snout and greater 
part of interorbital space naked. Scales on blind side a little 
smaller than those on colored side. Anterior dorsal rays pro- 
duced, ends branched and free, first near tip of snout, and those 
at posterior third of fin highest. Origin of anal directly below 
angle of preopercle, fin highest a little behind middle of its length, 
or opposite corresponding part of dorsal. Ventral basis long, 
that of colored side extending along ridge of body from notch 
in isthmus to front of anal, base of ventral on blind side shorter. 
Caudal long, rounded. Pectoral reaching past curve on colored 
side, its mate 1% in its length. Color almost translucent light 
olive, variegated with many small dark spots. Vertical fins with 
large nebulous blotches or spots of dusky or blackish. Pectoral 
on colored side speckled, other plain colored. Length 10% 
inches. Sea Isle City. 
A small thin flounder, notable for its translucent appearance, 
rarely exceeding 2 pounds, and not highly valued as a food-fish. 
On our coast it is abundant. Many examples have been taken 
at Cape May, Anglesea, Stone Harbor, Beesley’s Point and At- 
lantic City. Mr. Wm. J. Fox found the young at Sea Isle City 
in August of 1905. 
Rhombus maculatus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 
P. 350. 
Sophopsetta maculata Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 819, evi- 
dently lapsus for Lophopsetta. 
