382 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Common on our coasts, though less frequently taken than the 

 next. My examples from Beesley's Point, Atlantic City and 

 Townsend's Inlet. 



PrionoHis carolinus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 817. — Moore, 

 Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 364. 



Prionotus piiiatus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 

 327.— Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 817. 



Prionotus palmipes Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p 

 136.— Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 379. 



Prionotus evolans strigatus (Cuvier). 

 Sea Robin. Sand Pig Fish. Pig Fish. Flying Fish. 



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Sand Pig Fish. Prionotus evolans strigatus (Cuvier). 



Head 2V7; depth 4; A. X-12, i; A. 11, i; scales about 

 88 in a lateral series to base of caudal; pores 52 in lateral line to 

 base of caudal, and several more on latter; 9 scales between 

 origin of rayed dorsal and lateral line ; 2 1 scales in a vertical 

 series between origin of anal and lateral line; snout 2V10 i^^ 

 head; eye 6J^ ; maxillary 2% ; interorbital space 5^ ; width of 

 mouth 2'j4 ; third dorsal spine 2^ ; second dorsal ray 2^ ; ninth 

 anal ray 3>^ ; least depth of caudal peduncle 5^; caudal i^; 

 ventral 1^/7; pectoral 2% in head and trunk. Body a little 

 robust, comparatively deep. Head large. Snout long, convex, 

 though broad, and when viewed above truncate in front with 

 rounded edges. Eye a little elongate, high and a little posterior. 



