THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 263 



^ray, below whitish. Fins grayish. Dorsal lobe a little dusky. 

 Length 2j4 inches. Beesley's Point. 



I have 3 examples collected many years ago by S. F. Baird at 

 the above locality. 



Lichia spinosa Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 336. 



Trachynotus spinosus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 814, from 

 Baird. 



Trachynottis rhomboides Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, 

 p. 339, PI. 3, fig. 5. 



Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus). 



Plate 34- 

 Common Pampano. Pampano. Butter Fish. 



Head 3 J^ ; depth 2>^ ; D. I, VI, I, 25, i ; A. II, I, 22, i ; snout 

 4 in head ; eye 4}^ ; maxillary 3 ; interorbital space 3 ; third 

 dorsal ray i ^ ; third anal ray i % ; lower caudal lobe i ; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3; pectoral i^; ventral 2j^. Body 

 oblong, comparatively robust in appearance, greatest thickness 3 

 in greatest depth. Head rather small, blunt. Snout blunt, its 

 profile tO' interorbital space nearly vertical. Eye circular, well 

 anterior. Mouth nearly horizontal. Maxillary reaching in ver- 

 tical nearly to front rim of pupil, its expansion equal to diameter 

 of pupil. Teeth in minute bands. Interorbital space convexly 

 gibbous. Gill-rakers 4 + 7 short points. Scales minute and 

 smooth. Base of first erect dorsal spine about first two-fifths in 

 length of pectoral, spines well freed, and fifth erect longest. 

 Rayed dorsal inserted about midway between posterior margin 

 of eye and base of caudal, anteriorly elevated but without lobe. 

 Rayed anal inserted a little posteriorly, or about midway between 

 origin of pectoral and base of caudal, and fin similar tO' rayed 

 dorsal. Caudal deeply forked, lobes pointed. Pectoral short, 

 broad, two-thirds of space toi origin of rayed anal. Ventral in- 

 serted a little behind pectoral's origin, a little over half-way to 

 origin of anal. Color mostly silvery-slaty-gray above or on back. 

 Pectoral and anal tinted with light orange-yellow. Length 43/3 

 inches. Ocean City. 



