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Some specimens may be beller described as dark golden green, with 

 longitudinal bands of dark olive, broken up by cloudings of greenish. 



This species was only found in muddy water, or where there was- 

 considerable cover. They were stirred out from along the banks. I 

 sometimes thought that they lay at times completely embedded in the 

 mud. They were not rare in Cedar Swamp creek, and I caught a few 

 in the Hackensack, Rockland county, New York. 



7. Aphredodehus sayanus, Lesueur. 



Aphredoderus saijamis, Lesupur. — DeKay, Nevv' York Fauna, Fishes, 

 35, plate xxi, fig. 62. 



Prevailing color dark olive brown, with occasional obscure dots of 

 lighter. Abdomen nnd under surface of the throat and head, with the 

 sides of the latter, yellowish, with fine punctations of greenish brown 

 indistinctly visible on the sides. A vertical dark bar beneath the eye. 

 Iris silver}^ dotted with black. 



D. C. and A. dark olive, with darker margin and base. This cha- 

 racter on the tail shows as a vertical bar, parallel to which is another 

 near the base of the tail. P. olive, V. greenish yellow, with cloudings 

 of dusky towards the tip. Lateral line lighter than the ground color. 



Largest specimens four and a half inches. Ditches of Cedar Swamp 

 creek. Cape May county. 



This species was very abundant in a small branch of Cedar Swamp 

 creek, above Littleworth, wlwre many were taken in a short time. 



The size above given is probably a maximum one, as most I have 

 seen from other localities are considerably less. The species is little 

 known to naturalists, although occurring in many streams on the 

 Atlantic coast. 



8. Sphyr^na borealis, DeKa}'. 



NortJiirn Barracuda . 



Sphyra'na borealis, DeKav, New York Fauna, Fishes, 39, plate 



Ix, fig. 196. 



Nothing specially noteworth}- was observed as to the habits of this 

 diminutive representative of the f"erocious barracuda of Florida. None- 

 of the specimens caught, in fact, exceeded four inches in length. They 

 were taken from a smaJl cove at Corson's inlet ; a few of them were 

 found among the grass at the mouth of the river. 



