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a little nearer origin of anal than tip of snout. Appressed ventral 
134 in space to origin of anal. Pubic process small and movable, 
flap behind asperous, but not produced. Vent close in front of 
anal. Color when fresh sepia-brown generally, and more or less 
uniformly. Here and there on sides paler blotches. Lips pale 
brownish and teeth whitish. Iris dull brownish-yellow. Dorsal, 
anal and caudal pale or hyaline greenish-brown. Caudal with 
2 obscure broad ill-defined transverse bands. Pectoral whitish. 
Length 5 inches. Palermo, Cape May County. October roth, 
Woe.) C.. Z.. (Hartman, 
Also another with same data. Neither have first dorsal ray 
filamentous. 
Stephanolepis hispidus Fowler, Science, XXIV, 1906, Novem- 
ber oth, p. 596. 
Alutera schoepfii (Walbaum). 
Leather Jacket. 
Color when fresh, back gray-brown with more or less soiled 
effect, and blotched or spotted rather indistinctly with soiled or 
gilded ochraceous-golden. ‘These spots all more or less smaller 
than pupil, and not extending below gill-opening in any definite 
form as color all below is more or less entirely golden-ochraceous. 
Iris dull glassy-olivaceous, more pale or whitish about pupil. 
Vertical fins pale gray-brown, paler basally on dorsal and anal. 
Pectoral pale grayish-white, radii distally scarcely brownish. 
Ventral margin of body pale and more or less whitish. Lips 
whitish, and chin with a plumbeous shade in front. Upper an- 
terior surface of head more or less pale with a dark brownish 
speckled streak extending forward from front ’of eye above. 
Length 16 inches. Sea Isle City. June 24th, 1906. Wm. J. 
Fox. Another about same size was altogether more uniform 
gray-brown with very indistinct gilded spots,on back, and lower ~ 
surface without golden shade. Mr. Wm. J. Fox found this fish 
abundant about Sea Isle City during the summer of 1906, and 
many examples were taken in the deep-sea pounds. He also 
noted it in the summer of 1905 at this locality. 
