270 REPORT/OF NEW JERSEY STATE (MUSEUM: 
median portions. Anal transparent medianly, margin with iodide 
tint. Iris silvered, a little dusky above with purplish and greenish 
tints. Length 5 inches. Affluent of Crosswicks Creek near 
Trenton. July 15th, 1906. Many smaller examples were noted 
as showing same coloration, only altogether more brassy. Ex- 
amples 4 inches long had the back bluish-green with more or less 
silvery. 
Color in life of young very dark with underlaid blackish lateral 
band. Also jet-black streak on body at base of anal and extend- 
ing on lower surface’ of caudal peduncle. General tint of body 
deep bottle-blue, or blue-green with a beautiful metallic hue, and 
in some lights overshot with silvery reflections. Belly and lower 
surface but slightly paler than back, peritoneum showing through 
silvery, and in fact most everywhere body has a translucent effect. 
Fins translucent. Iris silvery, tinted a little dusky above. Small 
cedar-stained stream from the second pond above Dennisville, in 
Cape May County, during September of 1906. A number of 
these small dark examples were seen, their dark coloration sug- 
gesting that of Notropis chalybeus abbotti. They were difficult 
to detect and capture in the dark water. Larger ones were 
reported from the other pond, where they were said to- be locally 
abundant, and are angled for by boys. 
Color in life generally with steel-bluish-green, dark tint over 
lower surface of body, including lower surface of peritoneum, 
which shows silvery. Iris silvery. Back dark. Scales in lateral 
line tinted with dusky dots at each tube. Fins translucent 
brownish. Dorsal and caudal darker than other fins. Edges of 
pectoral, ventral and anal slightly dusky. Along base of anal a 
pale dusky streak. Base of caudal with dusky. Along side, after 
death, a plumbeous lateral streak somewhat evident. Snout and 
tip of mandible pale dusky. Length a trifle over 2 inches. 
December 31st, 1906. Petersburg, Cedar Swamp Creek, Cape 
May County. T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. Several examples 
taken. A smaller example seems to have lateral band a little 
‘more evident, also streak along base of anal. These were asso- 
ciated with Fundulus. : 
In the tide-water of Mantua Creek Mr. S. H. Hamilton and 
myself found these fish very abundant in the deeper pools. One 
