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supraoccipital crest; interorbital area flattish, with two low 

 ridces, a small foramen in each of these above front of pupil; 

 interorbital area much contracted anteriorly; a strongly pro- 

 jecting prefrontal process, which makes an acute angle with the 

 supraorbital. American shore fishes. 



273 Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus) 



Scup; Porgy; Sand Porgee 



Spams chrysops Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 471, 1766, Charleston S. C. 

 Spartts argijrops Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 471, 1766, Cliai-leston S. C. 



young. 

 .Labnis versicolor Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 404, pi. Ill, 



fig. 7, 1815, New York. 

 Savfjiis arenosus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 91, pi. 22, fig. 67, 1842, Long 



Island, j-oung. 

 I'aijrus argyrops De Kay, op. cit. 95, pi. IX, fig,. 25, 1842; adult; Gunther, 



Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 472, 1859. 

 Surgiis ambassis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 449, 1859, New York. 

 Diplodus argyrops Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 557, 1883. 

 Stoiotamus argyrops Goode & Bean, Bull. Esses Inst. XI, 17, 1879, Cape 



Ann Mass. 

 Stenotomus chrysops Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 142, 1888; 19th Rep. 



Comm. Fish. N. Y. 261, pi. XIV, fig. 18, 1890; Jordan & Fesler, Rept. 



U. S. F. C. 1889 to 1891, 507, 1893; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



IX, 366, 1897; II. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100, 1898; Jordan & 



EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1346, 1898, pi. CCXI, fig. 544, 1900; 



Bean, 52d Ann. Rept. N. Y. State Mus. 106, 1900; Sherwood ^- 



Edwards, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 28, 1901. 



Body ovate-elliptic, compressed, its greatest depth nearly one 

 half of total length without caudal; anterior profile steep, nape 

 convex, a strong depression above and in front of eye; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle one fourth of greatest depth, and equal to 

 poslurbital part of head. Head short and deep, its length con- 

 tained three and one fourth to three and one half times in total 

 without caudal; snout one third as long as head; eye one fourth 

 to one fifth as long as head, much narrower than the preorbital; 

 iiMiulh small, terminal, the maxillary reaching to below the pos- 

 terior nostrils; incisor teeth very narrow, almost conical; molars 

 iu iwo rows above; cheeks short and deep, with four rows of 

 scah's; toji of head, snout, orbitals, and chin naked; gill rakers 

 small, about < -}- 10 on first arch; temporal crest obsolete; supra- 

 occipital crest coniinnous Avith the frontal bones; a procumbent 



