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main, and these with lines that appear through the scales, 

 when out of alcohol for a short time, prove that the orig- 

 inal disposition of the plates was much as in D. occiduus. 



There are forty-four series of scales around the body. 

 The coloration is as in D. phoxinus, except that the 

 brown of the flanks is lighter, and that the small brown 

 spots on the dorsal region are more numerous and a little 

 more irregularly distributed. 



The specimens from which the foregoing notices have 

 been drawn belong to the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy at Cambridge, Mass. 



