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Dorsal inserted behind last fourth of entire length. Anal in- 

 serted well before dorsal and larger. Pectoral reaching about 

 one-third to ventral, which is inserted nearer base of caudal than 

 eye, and extending a little over one-third to anal. Color greenish, 

 scales and bones also same tint, sides silvery. A narrow silvery 

 lateral stripe. A dark bar on opercle. Fins dull olive. Length 

 22y2 inches. Delaware River. 



Abundant on our coast, and in the Delaware as far as Trenton 

 at least, also in the Raritan. I have examples from Beesley's 

 Point, Corson'.s Inlet, Barnegat, Sea Isle City and Atlantic City. 

 Said to reach a length of 4 feet. A good food-fish, but avoided 

 usually on account of the greenish color of the bones and flesh, 

 especially by the ignorant, who' regard it as poisonous. Prof. 

 Ulric Dahlgren has taken the young in the summit-level of the 

 Delaware and Raritan Canal with the yolks-sac still adhering. 

 At Cape May small ones run ashore, though they seldom reach 

 a foot in length, and they are also' sometimes taken in seines. 



Tylosunis niarinns Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p, 

 146.— Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 360.— Smith, 

 Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 369.— E. Smith, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. N. Y., IX, 1897, P- 38- 



Belone truncata Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 346. 



B clone longirostris Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 

 p. 95. — Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 815. — Abbott, Am. Nat., 

 IV, 1870, p. 105. 



Belone acutirostris Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 



Tylosurus raphidoma (Ranzani). 



Plate 19. 



Gar. 



Head 3V10 ; depth 15)^; D. 11, 20; A. iii, 19; pectoral 3?^ 

 in head; ventral 4%; least depth of caudal peduncle 12; lower 

 lobe of caudal 3 ; snout i J^ in head, measured from tip of upper 

 jaw; eye 7; gape of mouth i^Ao- Jaws rather short, stiff, rap- 

 idly tapering in front, and lower protruding. Eye a little longer 

 than deep, 2 in postocular region. A dark cutaneous flap attached 



