THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 273 
scarlet, other fins also ruddy. E,xcrescences on snout and head 
above. Length about 6 inches. Small ones taken with N. analo- 
stanus, N. bifrenatus and Fundulus diaphanus, about the shallow 
and often sandy or gravelly banks of the creek. Lateral band 
dark lead-color and sometimes ending in a dusky spot at base 
of caudal. This band extends from tip of snout, though not em- 
bracing mandible, along side of head and then to caudal. Upper 
surface pale olive-brown, edge of each scale becoming darker, 
though those immediately over inlaid lateral band paler so as to 
form a longitudinal pale streak. Iris silvery, except dusky lateral 
band across horizontally. Lower surface whitish. Sides and 
most of lower surface reflected silvery with metallic green, blue 
or purple sheens in some lights. Fins transparent, lower whitish, 
Red Fin. Notropis cornutus (Mitchi!l). 
and dorsal slightly brownish, caudal diluted warm brownish. 
Median dark streak down back. S$. H. Hamilton and H. W. 
Fowler. April 8th, 1906. 
Notropis chalybzeus (Cope). 
Steel Sided Minnow. 
Head 334; depth 474; D. m1, 7; A. 11, 7; scales 33 in lateral 
line to base of caudal; 16 scales before dorsal; 7 scales obliquely 
back from origin of dorsal to lateral line; snout 3*/; in head; 
eye 27%; maxillary 3%; interorbital space 234; depressed dorsal 
1; anal 144; pectoral 1%; ventral 1°/,; least depth of caudal 
18 MU 
