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depressed fin reaching 24 of space to latter. Anal inserted below 
bases of posterior dorsal rays, and reaching 24 of space to latter. 
Caudal truncate, corners angular. Pectoral long, reaching a 
little beyond origin of ventral. Ventral inserted a littie be- 
hind origin of dorsal. Color olivaceous-blue, belly and lower 
surface of head pale pinkish-white. Dorsal blackish, margined 
in front with orange. Pectorals and ventrals dusky-orange. 
Caudal grayish with a blackish posterior margin and another 
narrow line transverely at base. Scales on base of caudal pale. 
Length 2°/,, inches. A male taken in June at Cape May. A 
female with same data shows—Head 3; depth 21%4; D. 1, 11; A. 
I, 9; scales 23 in a lateral series to base of caudal and 3 more on 

Pursy Minnow. Cyprinodon variegatus Lacépéde. (Young.) 
latter; snout 3% in head, measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 
3% ; interorbital space 2%; fourth dorsal ray 124; fourth anal 
ray 2; caudal 1%. Origin of dorsal nearly midway between 
front of orbit and base of caudal. Color light olive, sides with 
about 15 alternately wide and narrow vertical dark or dusky 
bars, and about 8 cross bars on back alternating with those below. 
Belly pale brassy. Dorsal dusky with an obscurely ocellated 
black blotch near tips of last rays. Caudal gray and a narrow 
dusky bar at base before scales, which are pale. Other fins dull 
orange oeeneth, 2°/,;,-1imehes: 
Abundant in the Cape May and Grassy Sound shallows. I 
have examined many examples, both from these localities, Sea 
