406 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



A NEW SPECIES OF FISH OF THE GENUS ATOPICHTHYS, WITH NOTES ON 



NEW JERSEY FISHES. 



BY HENRY W. FOWLER. 



Atopichthys phillipsi sp. nov. 



Head about 14; depth about 14; snout about 3 J in head, measured 

 from tip of upper jaw; eye 3^; maxillary 2; interorbital 5; head 

 depth at occiput 2; muscular segments about 88 + 35? 



Body oblong, greatly compressed, and tapering from about last 

 third its length toward each end, greatest depth including area of 

 trunk posterior to middle of entire body length. Tail tapering down 

 rather suddenly. 



Head widest part of body, compressed, upper profile generally con- 

 cave and lower rather convex. Snout compressed, narrowly triangular, 

 both in profile and as viewed from above. Eye large, rounded. Mouth 

 large, oblique. Mandible shallow, attenuated, and protruding well be- 



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yond snout tip. Teeth narrow, long, pointed, apparently uniserial and 

 all directed anteriorly in jaws. Tongue not evident. Nostrils small, 

 well separated, similar, anterior near snout end and posterior close 

 before eye. Interorbital slightly convex. 



Gill-opening inferior, below and before pectoral base. 



Body naked, smooth. 



Vertical fins low, continuous around caudal, latter small, short and 

 little developed. Pectoral small, short, low. Vent far back, near 

 last sixth in entire length. 



Color in alcohol whitish, becoming transparent when removed and 

 a little dry, though again turning whitish when submerged. Along 

 middle of each side a minute dark dot or chromatophore on most 

 myocommas. Along lower edge of body also a dark chromatophore 

 at most of myocommas. Occasionally minute chromatophores scat- 

 tered inconspicuously along side of body, here and there. A number 

 of rather enlarged blackish chromatophores in branchiostegal region. 

 Iris blackish, veneered with silvery and slightly tinged pinkish. 



