THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 301 
Trachurops crumenophthalmus (Bloch). 
PLATE 100. 
Goggle Eye Scad. Goggle Eye. 
Distinguished from all our other members of the family by a 
deep cross-furrow at junction of shoulder-girdle with isthmus, - 
within gill-opening. 
This is only known within our limits from Dr. Gill’s record 
of an example taken among a school of blue fish at Beesley’s 
Point many years ago. This record I overlooked in the “Fishes 
of New Jersey.” 
Trachurops crumenophthalmus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., 1862, p. 432. 
Genus BLEPHARIS Cuvier. 
The Thread Mackerels. 
Blepharis crinitus (Mitchill). 
PLATE IOI. 
Thread Mackerel. ‘Thread Fish. 
Itesduce= depth i775 On VII—I-1, 19s) AS Mer 16,.P) i: 
18; V.1, 5; about a dozen scutes developed along side of caudal 
peduncle; mandible 21% in head; width of head 2%; pectoral 
11/1); lower caudal lobe 1%; snout 3% in head, measured from 
tip of upper jaw; eye 3'/,); maxillary 2%; interorbital space 
3; least depth of caudal peduncle 6; ventral 2% in head and 
trunk. Body strongly compressed, somewhat trapezoidal, nearly 
equally elevated above and below to origin of rayed dorsal and 
anal, at which point greatest depth of body fails. At former 
point back forms a nearly right-angled triangle, and below ab- 
domen forms a slightly obtuse angle at origin of anal. An- 
teriorly profiles slightly convex to their summits, and posteriorly 
