146 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
it is one of the most beautiful of minnows. ‘The lower surface 
of the body and pale area adjoining the black longitudinal band 
is a rich orange. They usually associate with other small fishes, 
such as the minnow (Notropis bifrenatus), the roach (Brama 
crysoleucas), mullet (Erimyzon sucetta oblongus), long eared 
sun fish (Lepomis auritus), banded sun fish (Mesogonistius 
chetodon), spotted sun fish (Enuneacanthus gloriosus), and 
yellow ned (Perca flavescens). 
Hybopsis chalybenus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 825. 
Hybopsis chalybeus Abbott, Am. Nat., VIII, 1874, p. 331. 
Minnilus chalybeus Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 
Notropis chalybzeus abbotti Fowler. 
Abbott’s Minnow. 
Head 334; depth 4%; D. 1, 7; A. 11, 7; scales 33 in lateral line 
to base of caudal; 17 scales before dorsal; 7 scales obliquely back 
from origin of dorsal to lateral line; 4 scales obliquely forward 
from origin of anal to lateral line; snout 3% in head; eye 3; 
maxillary 3%; interorbital space 2?/,; depressed dorsal 1; anal 
1%; pectoral 1%; ventral 114; least depth of caudal peduncle 
244; caudal 3% in head and trunk; pharyngeal teeth 2, 4-4, 2. 
Body robust, elongate. Lower profile a little more convex than 
upper. Head rather large, robust, somewhat conic in front. 
Snout broad, convex. Eye circular, anterior. Mouth small, 
oblique, jaws about even. Lips rather fleshy. Maxillary small, 
barely reaching beyond posterior nostril or to front rim of orbit. 
Gill-rakers few, weak and small. Scales large, those in front of 
dorsal somewhat crowded in appearance. Origin of dorsal nearer 
base of caudal than tip of snout. Anal inserted well behind last 
dorsal ray in vertical. Caudal rather long and forked, lobes 
pointed. Pectoral not reaching ventral, or about 34 of space. 
Ventral placed well before dorsal, not reaching anal. Color pale 
brown, each scale with blackish-dusky edge. A broad black band, 
as wide as eye on costal region, from snout to base of caudal 
where it forms a spot. Along base of anal a bar of dusky fading 
out on lower surface of caudal peduncle. Dorsal, caudal and 
