420 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Phycis tenuis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 819.—Smith, Bull. 
WUYSeF 2 Com: XIE i 892)"p470: 

Ling. Phycis tenuis (Mitchill). 
Phycis chuss (Walbaum). 
Ling. Thimble Eyed Ling. 
Head 4%, 5 <depth 52555 .D.1X—57,) Ae oc (Pai eee 
scales about 94 (squamation injured) from gill-opening above to 
base of caudal; about 20 scales obliquely up and back from origin 
of anal to lateral line; about 6 scales between middle of base 
of spinous dorsal and lateral line; about 7 scales in a trans- 

Thimble Eyed Ling. Phycis chuss (WaJ]baum). 
verse series on caudal peduncle; width of head 15% in its length; 
depth of head over posterior margin of eye 2144; snout 335; eye 
5%4; maxillary 214; mandible 214 ; interorbital space 44% ; pec- 
toral 1°/,; caudal 124; least depth of caudal peduncle 45%; 
width of mouth at maxillaries posteriorly 224. Body rather slen- 
der, well compressed. Head depressed. Snout broad, depressed, 
and tip bluntly rounded. Eye large, a little elongate and well 
