194 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
14 scales between origins of dorsal and anal; first branched dorsal 
ray 2 in head; fourth branched anal ray 17%; caudal 1%; pec- 
toral 17%; pectoral 17%; ventral 214; snout 336 in head 
measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 4; maxillary 3%; in- 
terorbital space 27%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%. Body 
long, rather slender, compressed, and back not elevated. Head 
flattened or depressed above. Snout rather broad, flattened above. 
Eye circular, rather large and anterior. Jaws very protractile, 
lower protruding. Mouth short and wide. Maxillary obliquely 
vertical, falling well short of orbit or not quite to posterior nos- 
tril. Teeth conspicuous, those in outer series enlarged, especially 
in mandible. Nostril superior on interorbital space in front of 
eye above. Interorbital space broad and flat. Gill-rakers 6 weak 

Barred Minnow. Fundulus diaphanus (Le Sueur). (Male.) 
denticles. Scales small, those on costal region a trifle more nar- 
rowly imbricated than others, and those on caudal peduncle large. 
Scales on top of head very large. Scales on cheek in 3 series.’ 
Dorsal inserted midway between.posterior margin of preopercle 
and base of caudal, and first branched rays highest. Anal in- 
serted a trifle behind origin of dorsal and middle branched rays 
highest, fin rounded. Caudal rounded. Pectoral not quite reach- 
ing ventral. Ventral inserted midway between origin of pectoral 
and that of anal. Color pale olive, sides silvery, and about 20 
silvery vertical lines, narrower than dark inter-spaces. Fins 
plain, dorsal and caudal slightly dusky-olive tinted. Length 33% 
inches. Lily Lake, at Cape May Point. 
Color of the above male in life, translucent olivaceous above, 
margin of each scale diffusely dusky. Top of head tinted with 
