336 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



of soft dorsal, and coloration with dark markings often obsolete. 



Known from Dr. Bean's record of 2 examples taken in the 

 Great Egg Harbor Bay. 



Menticirrus alburntis Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 

 141. 



Menticirrhus saxatilis (Schneider). 



Plate 67. 



King Fish. Hake. Barb. 



Head 3% ; depth 4; D. IX-I, 24, i; A. I, 8; scales 53 in lateral 

 line to base of caudal and 5 more on latter; 8 scales in vertical 

 series between origin of spinous dorsal and lateral line; 13 scales 

 in a vertical series between origin of anal and lateral line; 

 snout 3^ in head; eye 6'j/i ; maxillary 29^; interorbital space 

 3%; third dorsal spine 1^/7; third anal ray 2^; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3; pectoral i^; ventral ij4« Body elongate, 

 well compressed, back well elevated with convex profile so that 

 greatest depth falls about middle of base of spinous dorsal. Head 

 obtusely conic in front, narrowed somewhat above, broader be- 

 low, and upper profile evenly though slightly convex from tip of 

 snout to origin of spinous dorsal, very slightly depressed over 

 eyes. Snout bluntly convex and projecting beyond tip oi upper 

 jaw. Eye a little elongate, high and well anterior. Mouth hori- 

 zontal, anterior, and with rather narrow fleshy lips, papillose in- 

 side. Maxillary reaching opposite posterior margin of pupil. 

 Teeth fine, in bands in jaws, outer series of upper a little enlarged. 

 A single short thick fleshy barbel at symphysis of mandible below. 

 Interorbital space rather broad and a little convex. Anterior nos- 

 tril a little posterior in snout, and posterior higher, much larger 

 and obliquely oval. Opercular spines weak, short. Margin of 

 preopercle thin, with slight denticles. Gill-rakers iv -f- iv short 

 rounded fleshy tuebrcles. Scales rather large, narrowly imbri- 

 cated, finely ctenoid, becoming noticeably smaller and crowded 

 on base of rayed dorsal, caudal and pectoral. Head scaled, except 

 jaws, lower surface of snout and head, and maxillary. Lateral 

 line of arborescent tubes and concurrent with dorsal profile. 

 Spinous dorsal elevated anteriorly, inserted a little nearer origin 

 of anal than tip of snout or a little behind that of pectoral. Rayed 



