264 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Colo'r of the above in life a beautiful shining silvery-white, 

 lower surface opaque, and back with a slightly leaden tint. Fins 

 all moT'e or less translucent in color, dorsal, caudal and pectoral 

 grayish, anterior lobe of rayed dorsal tinted dusky, and lower 

 distal end of lower caudal lobe tinted w^ith dull orange. Anal 

 orange-yellow on anterior rayed lobe, becoming whitish margin- 

 ally at this portion of fin and basally posteriorly translucent. 

 Extremity O'f lower caudal lobe also' whitish. Spinous dorsal 

 translucent grayish. Pectoral with lower half pale or whitish, 

 and bases oi upper rays gray. Spinous anal whitish, membranes 

 but slightly tinted with pale yellow. Ventral with chalky-white 

 radii, lower outer portion of fin pale orange and otherwise trans- 

 parent. Iris beautiful silvery-gray, variable. After death the 

 body assumes various beautiful shades of purplish, coppery and 

 bronze, etc. 



Abundant on sandy shores and in the surf at Ocean City and 

 Stone Harbor. A valuable food -fish oi firm, rich, delicate flesh. 

 They are more tenacious of life than the silversides or hake. 



Lichia Carolina Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 345. 



Trachynotus carolimts Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 813. — 

 Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 140. 



TrachinoHis carolinus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 

 p. 361.— Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 373. 



Family POMATOMID^. 



The Blue Fishes. 



Body oblong, compressed. Caudal peduncle rather stout. 

 Head large, compressed. Mouth large, oblique. Premaxillaries 

 protractile. Maxillary not slipping under preorbital, provided 

 with large supplemental bone. Lower jaw projecting. Bands 

 of villi form teeth on vomer and palatines, those on vomer form- 

 ing triangular patch. Jaws each with a single series of very 

 strong compressed unequal widely set teeth. Upper jaw with 

 an inner series of small depressed teeth. Villi form teeth on base 

 of tongue. Occipital keel strong. Free edge of preopercle pro- 



