SCLENID^ OF THE eastern united states coast. 
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two longitudinal rows. In this example the body is more cylindrical, the depth 
4.1 and the head 3.3 in standard length; the eye is 5.5 in head; the maxillary 
reaches the hinder edge of orbit; and the tail has the median rays only slightly 
produced. 
In adult, examples (fig. 20) the spots on the fins are smaller, those on the second 
dorsal being scattered irregularly over that fin. The depth is from 4 to 4.5 and 
the head about 3.5 in length; the snout 3.75 in head (3.33 in young), long, acute; 
the eye 6 to 7 and the maxillary about 2.2 in head, extending to the posterior edge 
of orbit; the first dorsal higher and more angular; the caudal slightly concave. 
The gill rakers, 4 + 8, are rather short and stout, very uniform in number at all 
ages. 
The food of Cynoscion nebulosus is in all probability rather similar if not 
identical to that of C. regalis, but, owing to the rarity of large numbers of this fish 
in collections, we had no opportunity to examine any stomachs with a view to 
answering that question. 
Cynoscion nothus (Holbrook). Silver Squeteague, Bastard Trout, Gray 
Trout, Sand Trout. 
Cynoscion nothus (fig. 21) is the least abundant of the squeteagues on the 
Atlantic coast of the United States. It was first described by Holbrook (1860, 
Fig. 21. — Cynoscion nothus, adult fish. 
p. 134, pi. 19, fig. 1) in 1860 from examples taken in South Carolina waters. 
Although unfrequently taken on the Atlantic coast it is the most abundant species 
of the genus in the outside waters of the Gulf States, from Florida to Texas. Exami- 
nation of a large series of specimens taken by the Fisheries schooner Grampus in 
Gulf waters indicates that the species is very close to Cynoscion regalis, and that its 
claim to specific rank is at least doubtful. Although an apparently well-marked 
variety, further study may show complete intergradation of characters with the 
latter species. R. J. Coles (1916) considers it simply a color variation of C. regalis. 
Comparison of eight examples of Cynoscion nothus from the Texas coast with 
the same number of examples of C. regalis from Beaufort, N. C., of approximately 
the same size (from 11 to 19 cm. in length) shows the following differences: 
1. The head of nothus is slightly longer than that of regalis (2.9 in nothus, 3.1 
in regalis, in standard length). 
