THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 8i 



On each side of mouth a large flabelHform moveable flap. Mouth 

 very large, horizontal and terminal. Jaws terminal, lower a 

 little advanced, unequal and very small asperities in place of teeth. 

 These teeth distant in many rows, though in upper jaw hardly 

 perceptible. Nostrils small, placed beneath anterior angle of 

 flap near angle of mouth, and each covered by a small rounded 

 lobe. No apparent tongue. Gill-openings 5, large, linear, sus- 

 tained by cartilage half their length, placed very near each other, 

 and fifth smallest. Spiracles behind eyes, near widest "superior 

 margin. Skin without tubercles or spines but rough to touch. 

 Tail longer than body, armed with i or 2 spines, subcompressed, 

 feeble and soft, without asperities or spinous tubercles. Dorsal 

 fin small, triangular and placed on base of tail between ventrals. 

 Pectorals equal in length and width, arcuated before, lunate be- 

 hind, and a little dilated and rounded at extremity near ventrals. 

 Ventrals small, rounded, narrow, not longer than pectorals, and 

 united with them. Vent small, longitudinal and between origin 

 of ventrals. Color above blackish, a little tinged with reddish, 

 somewhat clouded, and branchial rays marked and distinct by a 

 darker tint which followed direction of interior cartilages in 

 arcuated lines. Below white, dusky on posterior margin with 

 many darker spots, irregular in form and disposition, largest on 

 abdomen, and smaller on margin and middle of fins. Width 15 

 or 16 feet, length 7 feet 9 or 10 inches, tail 4 or 5 inches longer 

 than body, mouth 2 feet 6 inches wide, eye 2 inches in diameter 

 with pupil 9 lines, cephalic flap 2 feet 2j4 inches long from eye 

 by I foot wide. Taken near the entrance of Delaware Bay. 



(Le Sueur.) 



From this it will be seen that Cephaloptera giorna Le Sueur 

 did not come from Georgia, as supposed by Drs. Jordan and 

 Evermann. 



Only known from our shores, aside from the accounts of 

 Mitchill and Le Sueur, by the example taken about a mile oft* 

 Stone Harbor which I reported in 1903. Mr. David McCadden, 

 of Philadelphia, furnished the information concerning the ident- 

 ity of this specimen, and together with the eye I am able to posi- 

 tively determine the same. The note containing the record 

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