37 G EEPOET OF XEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



l)aek. is inconspicuously mottled on sides with a slightly darker shade 

 than general body-coloi": This mottling takes the form more or less 

 of specks of rather uneven size, distril)uted at least over all of the 

 cuirass of the trunk. Along base of anal the spots are distinct. 

 Snout, edge of mandible and preorbital till level with lower margin 

 of eye all dusky or slaty-blackish like rest of upper surface of head, 

 though line of demarcation after eye not so distinct and not extending 

 below upper basal margin of pectoral. Opercle and pre-pectoral plate 

 pale like sides of trunk, and finely mottled with rather a few dusky 

 specks. Sides of mandibular rami tinted a little with neutral-slaty. 

 Iris neiUral-slaty with a narrow silver circle around slaty-black pupil. 

 Rest of under surface of head like thorax. From axil of ventral back 

 to vent and just above pale pubic process a tract of neutral specks or 

 dots extending back. In some lights entire lateral and lower surface 

 of body has a brilliant shining and metallic appearance like dark 

 burnished steel. Dorsal spines pale neutral, membranes transparent. 

 Dorsal rays, anal and caudal translucent whitish, also pectoral. Ven- 

 tral spine grayish-white, and meml)rane within closed fin lu'llliant 

 oi'ange. Length two and one-half inches for largest example. In 

 all, fourteen examples from Corson's Inlet, Cape May county, on Jan- 

 uary 14th, 1908. They were taken in a hauling-net or seine by Mr. 

 W. G. Carothers. They were not known to the fishermen. Most all 

 show at least a little orange tinge in the ventral membranes. Shrimps 

 were also very common at the same time.^ 



Apeltes quadracus (Mitchill). 

 Four Spined Stickleback. 



Several adults, males with red ventrals. were taken in Great Sound 

 Creek, Cape May county, on January 5th, 1908. 



Found abundantly in grassy pools on Burlington Island in June 

 of 1902. 



^ Crago septemspinos^is. Also an example of Gloiiocephala brachyptera 

 Cope was captured there under the same date, the skeleton of which I have 

 examined in the Academy. 



