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deep and anterior profile nearly straight. Eye small, circular, 

 about midway in depth of fish. Mouth rather small. Premaxil- 

 laries protractile, fitting into a notch between bases of maxillaries. 

 A supplemental maxillary. Teeth in jaws minute, on tongue, 

 vomer and palatines. Tongue narrow^ and free. Mandible deep, 

 dentary bones thin, approximate. Nostrils together in inter- 

 orbital region level with pupil. Gill-rakers 8 + 26, slender, a 

 little longer than filaments or about i Yz in orbit. Scales minute. 

 Curved part of lateral line a trifle less than half length of straight 

 part. Second erect dorsal spine elongate, others all short. Rayed 

 dorsal a little posterior in length of head and trunk, and first ray 

 long and filamentous. Rayed anal similar, though a little in 

 advance of rayed dorsal. Caudal widely forked with slender 

 lobes sharply pointed. Pectoral falcate, broad, a trifle more than 

 half way to base of caudal. Ventral inserted a little before ori- 

 gin of pectoral, long and slender. Color silvery. Length 5 inches. 

 Squan River. 



My examples from the above locality, Anglesea and B'eesley's 

 Point. It has been observed occasionally along our shores, once 

 at least at Cape May. Not used as food to my knowledge. 



Selene vomer Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 361. — 

 Smith, BuH. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 373. 



Argyreiosus capillaris Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 

 p. 337.— Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 813. 



Selene gallus Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 139. 



Genus Chloroscombrus Girard. 



The Casabes. 



Chloroscombrus chrysurus (Linnaeus). 



Plate 32. 



Yellow Tail. 



Known from any other species in the family by the ventral 

 profile, which is more convex than the dorsal. 



I have no examples. Known from our coast by Dr. Abbott's 

 record. 



Chloroscombrus chrysurus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 813. 



