326 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
2% in snout and first dorsal spine reaching a little beyond origin 
of dorsal radii. Very young abundant in the surf at Stone Har- 
bor, July 25th, 1906. 
Umbrina nebulosa Norris, Am. Angler, 1869, p. 286, fig. 
Pogonias cromis (Linnzus). 
Banded Drum. Black Drum. 
Elead 3% ;) depth 2345, 1D. X lease; A. Tl, 6% ‘scalesismeam 
lateral line to base of caudal and 5 more on latter; 6 scales in a 
vertical series between origin of rayed dorsal and lateral line in a 
vertical series; 12 scales in a vertical series between origin of 
spinous anal and lateral line; snout 3% in head; eye 4% ; max- 
illary 3; interorbital space 4%; second dorsal spine 17%; first 
dorsal ray 2% ; second anal spine 134; first anal ray 134; caudal 
1144; least depth of caudal peduncle 224; pectoral 11%; ventral 
1%. Body compressed, deep, back elevated so that upper profile 
is ovoid with greatest bulge at origin of dorsal. Predorsal region 
keeled, belly and chest flattened. Caudal peduncle compressed, 
and its length about 44 its least depth. Head compressed, ‘and 
upper profile steeper than lower, and evenly convex to origin of 
spinous dorsal. Snout as broad as long, obtuse, projecting be- 
yond edge of upper jaw. Eye not high, a little longer than deep, 
and near first third in head. Mouth little inclined, inferior, both 
jaws inferior, and lower a little posterior to upper. Maxillary 
well concealed above, reaching front margin of pupil, and its 
expansion about half of eye horizontally. Lips a little fleshy. 
Small short cirri, about 15 in number, along inner margin of 
mandible externally. Exposed inferior surface of mandible 
largely porous. Rather broad bands of fine teeth in jaws. 
Tongue large, thick, rounded and little free. Nostrils close in 
front of eye, posterior much larger. Interorbital space broad, 
and nearly perfectly flat. Margins of preorbital and preopercle 
entire. Gill-opening forward to anterior margin of pupil. Gill- 
rakers 5 + 13, short, pointed, and longest about half of filaments, 
which are about 24 of eye horizontally. Isthmus a little broad 
and convex. Scales roughly ctenoid, largest on middle of sides 
of body, and parallel with lateral line above its course. Below 
lateral line scales in series also parallel with its course. Lower 
