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lateral line; mandible 11°/,, in head; fourth developed dorsal 
ray 2%; second developed anal ray 2%; lower caudal lobe 
I'1/,5; least depth of caudal 5%; pectoral 234; ventral 234; 
snout 2% in head measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 7; max~ 
illary 2'/,;; interorbital space 574; branchiostegals 16. Body 
long, slender, compressed, deepest near middle and tapering back 
to a slender caudal peduncle. Head long, compressed posteriorly. 
Snout rather broad, depressed, and maxillaries protruding later- 
ally. Eye high, a trifle posterior, and a little oval, narrower end 
anterior. Maxillary reaching front of orbit, but not quite to front 
rim of pupil. Teeth rather small, those in front of upper jaw and 
several along side of each ramus of mandible a little enlarged. 
Teeth on tongue minute. Nostrils similar, close together, rather 
large, and anterior about last third in snout. Interorbital space 
flat, a trifle concave medianly. Side of mandible with a broad 
thin labial fold. Gill-rakers as a series of very fine or minute 
asperities. Scales small, smaller on back medianly and base of 
caudal. Cheek and opercle scaly. Scattered tubes similar to those 
in lateral line above and below its course. Dorsal inserted about 
last four-nineteenths in head and trunk, median rays highest. 
Anal opposite and similar. Caudal emarginate. Pectoral about 
half way to ventral. Ventral inserted nearer origin of anal than 
that of pectoral. Color deep olive on back, below whitish. Sides 
with dark: reticulating lines, mostly horizontal. A dark streak 
below eye. Length 95 inches. Cedar Swamp Creek, in the 
Great Egg Harbor basin. 
Color in life brown, peritoneum of abdomen showing through 
as purple and bluish. A median pale dusky streak from tip of 
snout to opercle, and a little posteriorly along side of trunk just 
above line of demarcation of color. A median pale streak down 
back from tip of snout to dorsal. Black line on side of head also 
continued on side of head across iris. Iris white, chrome above. 
Margins of jaws dusky. Lower surface of head pale translucent 
brown. ‘Thorax and opercular region with ruddy-purple reflec- 
tions. Region from ventral to anal narrowly and medianly with 
slight silvery reflections showing through. Fins pale brown with 
dull dusky shades. Length 1% inches. Another example 6 
