THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 341 



above was taken in August, 1903, by Capt. Robert Johnson, of 

 the schooner O. Teal, in Lat. 40' 7° North and Long. 69' 34'' 30° 

 W., in 600 fathoms of water. 



Color when fresh plumbeous-olive above, each scale on front 

 of back with a more or less dark lemon-yellow base. Middle of 

 side of head and trunk pale, inclining to^ whitish of lower surface. 

 Back posteriorly, especially on upper surface of caudal peduncle, 

 with deep plumbeous-purple tinge. Lower surface of head and 

 trunk white, more or less tinged with dilute lemon-yellow below, 

 especially in front of ventrals and on gular region. Back, upper 

 side, and posterior side of head marked with numerous round 

 lemon-green spots, smaller anteriorly, especially on cheek, and 

 becoming larger posteriorly on caudal peduncle above. Mandible 

 white. Adipose fin dark lemon-green, its base largely dusky- 

 lemon-green, and margins dusky. Dorsal pearl-grayish, each 

 spine and ray with a large median portion lemon-green, but 

 little of which extends on membranes. Upper portion of spinous 

 dorsal slaty, top of each spine pearly. Upper two-thirds of soft 

 dorsal slaty, fading lighter above till margin is diffuse pearly. 

 Anal pearl-gray with a large chalky-white blotch basally between 

 each ray, and posterior marginal portion of fin with pale cinerous 

 tints. Pectoral plumbeous, becoming pearl-gray basally and 

 below, and a bright lemon-olive ocellus edged with black at base 

 of fin above. Inside basal portion of fin tinged with bright olive- 

 yellow or greenish on each dark ray. Ventral pearl-gray, a little 

 pale plumbeous distally, and spine lemon-yellow. Caudal like 

 back, lower margin pearl-gray, and posterior marginal portion 

 becoming dark slaty. Caudal also marked with large vertical 

 lemon-green blotches more or less confluent. Iris a most beauti- 

 ful iridescent-green, blue and purple like inside of Haliotis. 



"In Forest and Stream" for 1883 is an account of this fish 

 from between the Grand Banks and Barnegat. This was 

 noticed in the same year by the American Naturalist, Vol. 

 XVII, p. 91. They were unknown to the fishermen, and were 

 strewn upon the surface of the seas in a belt 30 to 50 miles wide, 

 and so thickly that it was estimated that fully 50 lay in the area 

 of a bark's cabin. When first reported they were in good condi- 



