198 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Head deep, compressed, flattened above. Muzzle blunt. Eye 
large, circular, anterior. Mouth small, superior, with mandible 
vertical and projecting. Maxillary vertical, not to nostril. Teeth 
conic, uniserial and rather small. Upper jaw protractile. Nos- 
tril superior anteriorly to eye in interorbital space. Interorbital 
space broad and flattened. Gill-rakers 5 short weak points. 
Scales large, forming a lateral line from opposite origin of dorsal 
to base of caudal, consisting of a single puncture to each scale and 
traversing 19 scales. At this point 4 scales above and 4 below. 
Scales on top of head large. Small scales on base of caudal. 
Scales on cheek in 2 series. Origin of dorsal midway between 
tip of mandible and base of caudal. Origin of anal a little be- 
hind that of dorsal. Caudal large, rounded. Pectoral reaching 
beyond ventral. Ventral inserted well beyond dorsal and reach- 
ing anal. Color olive, pale below, and edges of scales on back 
slightly darker. Dorsal with a dusky spot anteriorly, ocellated 
with orange and fin largely dusky-orange. Ventrals and anal 
orange-red tipped with dusky. Caudal orange-yellow tipped with 
black. Pectorals pale. Length 15/,, inches.. Cape May. 
Known to me from 2 examples secured on the Cape May 
marshes by Mr. H. L. Viereck who reports it as common. Mr. 
Viereck during his mosquito investigations also reports that the 
marshes of the greater portion of the southern part of the state 
have been examined for Gambusia, but without success, though 
many examples of Lucania, Fundulus, Cyprinodon and Menidia 
were taken. ‘The female is pale olive without the bright markings 
of the male. 
Cyprinodon parvus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 820, from 
Baird. 
Lucania parva Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 148, 
Piy2 ie. 16. 
Genus Cyprrnopon Lacépéde. 
The Pursy Minnows. 
Cyprinodon variegatus Lacépéde. 
Killi Fish. Pursy Minnow. 
Head 3%; depth 2!/,,; D. 1, 10; A. 1, 9; scales 24 in a lateral 
series to base of caudal and 3 more on latter; 19 scales before 
