r)6i; -Nr:w YORK state museum 



270 Eucinostomus g-ula iCuv. & Val.) 

 Mojarra de Ley; Silver Jenny 



(inns f/iila Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat Poiss. VI. 4C4. 1S30, 



Martinique; Gunther, Cat. Fisli. Brit. Mus. I, 346, I80O. 

 Kiicinosiomus argentens Baird & Girard, Mli Smithson. Kep. o45, 1855, 



Beesley's Point, N. J. 

 <J cries (mjenteits Jordan- & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 5S4, 1883; 



Beax. Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 138, 1888, Great Egg Harbor Bay, N. J. 

 Kiiciiiostoiinis gitia Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1370, 



1808; II. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, lOl, 1898; Bean, 52d Aun. 



Hep. N. Y. State Mus. 106, 1900. 



ilodv clliptie. compressed, l)aek moderately elevated, the 

 greatest depth contained two and two fifths times in total length 

 without candal. Head short, pointed, its length three tenths 

 of total without caudal; mouth small, the maxillary reaching 

 slightly past the vertical from the front of orbit.; exposed por- 

 tion of maxillary nearly oblong, its length twice its width, and 

 equal to one fourth or one fifth the length of the head; pre- 

 orbital and preopercle entire; snout two sevenths and interor- 

 bilal width one third length of head; eye one third length of 

 head, (xill rakers small and weak, seven below the angle of 

 first arch; ijremaxillarj' groove scaly in front, posterior part 

 naked forming a sort of pit. Longest dorsal spine two 

 thirds as long as head. Second anal spine shorter and stronger 

 than ihird. about three tenths as long as the head. Ventrals 

 if:i(li nearly to vent, five sevenths as long as head. Pectorals 

 rcii.cli liont of anal, and equal one third of total length without 

 candal. Second interhaemal hollow and enlarged. 



I. IX. 1(1: A. Ill, S; scales 5-42 to 45-9; vertebrae 9+15. 



Color silvery, greenish, darker above; no distinct longitudinal 

 lines exccpi in very young; upper margin of spinous dorsal more 

 'r less black; dorsal and anal fins dusky; other fins pale. 



The silver jenny occurs from Cape Cod to Brazil and the West 

 indies; only the young come far north in summer. The species 

 .eaclies a lengdi of 5 inches and is used for bait. 



A I Woods Hole Mass., writes Dv Smith, the species is usually 

 \eiv uni (uiniKiii. In ls!)7 live specimens were taken at one 

 ^''""' 'i-'"' '" <2nissei liiiilxn- on Angust 14; two in the same 



