THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 95 



peduncle 2^ ; snout 4j^ in head, measured from tip of upper 

 jaw; eye 3 J^ ; maxillary 2j^ ; interorbital space 5. Body 

 rather evenly fusiform. Head rather long, attenuated, and pro- 

 files about evenly inclined. Mandible protruded well beyond 

 snout. Maxillary reaching nearly opposite posterior margin of 

 pupil, and its greatest expansion about J^ of orbit. Upper jaw 

 emarginate in front. Interorbital space flattened. Opercular 

 edge of gill-opening moderately emarginate posteriorly and be- 

 low. Gill-rakers 10 + 20, flattened, equal to filaments. Peri- 

 toneum white. Dorsal inserted nearer tip of mandible than base 

 of caudal. Anal low, well behind dorsal. Caudal forked, lower 

 lobe a little longer. Pectoral about ^/^ to ventral. Ventral in- 

 serted a little behind dorsal, and reaching half way to anal. 

 Color blush-silvery, becoming white below. Sides with faint 

 longitudinal stripes, one to each series of scales, and darker on 

 back. A blue-black blotch on shoulder. On back each stripe has 

 scale it passes over with a dusky center, giving appearance of 

 row of spots in each band. Fins pale, dorsal and caudal tinted 

 with dusky. Length 11^ inches. Barnegat Pier. 



This herring does not ascend the fresh waters to spawn, and is 

 not a highly-valued food-fish. It differs from the alewife in the 

 comparatively longer and elliptical head, and reaches a length of 

 2 feet. The example described above was taken on a hook 

 baited with "blood worm." the holothurian known as Caudiua. 



Pomolobus mediocris Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 821. — 

 Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 149. 



Chipea mediocris Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 

 368. 



Alosa mattowaca Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 



349- 



Melatta mattozvocca Verrill, Am. Nat., V, 1871, p. 398. 



Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). 

 River Herring. Herring. Alewife. 



Head 4^; depth 33^; D. iii, 14; A. 11, 16; scales about 50 

 in lateral series to base of caudal; about 14 scales between dorsal 



