400 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
3%; maxillary 2%; eye 4% in interorbital space. Body robust 
forward, moderately elongate, and greatest depth at occiput, 
anteriorly subcylindrical and posteriorly somewhat compressed. 
Head large and broad. Eye small, circular. Maxillary oblique, 
its greatest expansion 3 in orbit. Lips with many transverse fila- 
ment-like plications. Teeth conical, small and movable, in many 
bands in upper jaw, in lower teeth larger and in fewer bands. 
Teeth on vomer and palatines. Naked space between forks of Y 
on top of head long and narrow, but shorter than vertical limb 
of Y. Naked area behind eye broad. Anterior internasal space 
a little greater than posterior. Nostrils with short cutaneous 
flaps marginally, and posterior pair each with an outwardly 
curved canal with entire margins furnished similarly. Two 
spinous tubercles directed forward from front of orbit. Bones 
of head rugosely striate, greater portion of opercle superiorly 
especially so. Gill-rakers obsolete asperities. Scales very small, 
somewhat imbedded, disappearing on under surface of body, or 
from below a line drawn from fifth anal ray to upper end of 
base of pectoral. Lateral line not evident. Second dorsal spine 
longest, and inserted a little behind origin of pectoral. Median 
portion of rayed dorsal highest. Anal begins opposite origin of 
rayed dorsal, lower and longer, and tips of radii a little free. 
Caudal rounded. Pectoral with upper rays longer and reaching 
a little beyond anal. Ventral 114 to anal. Color deep brown 
above, whitish below. Upper parts dotted with white, margined 
with blackish around each one, and these all becoming larger 
below rayed dorsal. Spinous dorsal black, whitish posteriorly. 
Rayed dorsal whitish with oblique dusky or blackish bands. Anal 
whitish with a longitudinal blackish median band. Caudal whit- 
ish with a broad median and submarginal band above and below 
of blackish. Pectorals dusky. Ventrals white with dusky tints. 
Length 14 inches. Atlantic City. 
I have but a single example, described above, and received from 
Prof. Henry C. Chapman. This fish occurs in sandy bays of 
shallow water and varies much with age. It reaches a length of 
15 inches and the naked area on top of the head has been stated 
to be the seat of electric power. 
Upsilonphorus anoplos Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 817. 
