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serted slightly before dorsal and rather more developed. Tail 
large. Ventral small, reaching vent. Color dark olive-green 
above, lower part of sides and beneath rich ochre-yellow. Sides 
with 10 or I2 broad well defined vertical dark bars, nearly as 
large as inter-spaces which are of faint greenish-white tint. All 
fins but dorsal uniform yellowish, lighter on abdomen. Dorsal 
yellow on terminal half, basal portions olivaceous with a large 
black spot posteriorly, and immediately anterior to it a white 
one. Dark spot bordered above and behind by yellow part men- 
tioned. One example with posterior half of base of dorsal dull 
white, with large subcircular spot of black in center. Pectoral 
similar, dorsal unspotted and yellow less intense. Length 1 inch. 
In a small ditch at Robinson’s Landing, Peck’s beach, opposite 
Beesley’s Point. ( Baird. ) 
Known only from the above account by Baird. Dr. Abbott 
says that it proves to be quite common in the brackish waters of 
the state generally, a statement which needs verification. 
Hydrargyra lucie Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 
344- 
Micristius lucias Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 820. 
Fundulus lucie Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 147, 
from Baird. 
Genus Lucania Girard. 
The Rain Water Fishes. 
Lucania parva (Baird). 
Little Killie Fish. 
Head 37/;; depth 3275 ;.D. 1, 8; Ao av, 7; scales 28 in lateral 
line to base of caudal and 2 more on latter; 13 scales before 
dorsal; g scales between origins of dorsal and anal; height of 
dorsal 114 in head; height of anal 2; caudal 1%; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 17%; snout 4% in head measured from tip of 
upper jaw; eye 244; maxillary 3; interorbital space 24%%. Body 
rather deep, compressed, greatest depth at origin of ventral, back 
not elevated and lower profile much more convex anteriorly, also 
much more so than upper. Caudal peduncle deep, compressed. 
