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below it and above it ; the base of the fin with dark interspinal spots^ 

 and the edge of the fin again blackish. Second dorsal bkie-black 

 dashed with orange toward the base; caudal blackish, rather darker 

 at base; anal blue-black, with orange-yellow at the base; pectoral 

 blackish, with orange cross shades ; ventrals blue-black, with some edg- 

 ings of orange. 



The young example is similarly marked, but has less dusky shading, 

 the tins being mostly pale. 



These specimens were obtained in a hydraulic canal above Brook- 

 ville, Indiana, by Mr. Amos W. Butler, April 25, 1885. 



Indiana University, April 29, 1885. 



ON THfi OCCURRENCE OP HADROPTERUS AURANTIACUS (COPE), 

 IN THE FK«BNCH BROAD RIVER, NORTH CAROLINA. 



By TARIiGTOIV H. BEABT, 



Curator of the Department of Fishes. 



The National Museum has just received from Dr. J.. A. Watson, of 

 Asheville, N. C, a fine specimen of the above species. 



(Accession No. 15967; catalogue No. 37175.) 



The length of theexampleis 103 millimeters; the length to end of lateral 

 line is 88 millimeters. The form is elongate. The caudal peduncle is some- 

 what deep, its depth equaling about one-half the length of the head. The 

 snout is somewhat abruptly curved, and the lower jaw is included. The 

 back is not conspicuously elevated. The outline from the interorbital 

 space to the origin of the dorsal forms almost a straight line. The 

 head is slightly compressed anteriorly ; its greatest length is contained 

 about 4^ times in the length to end of lateral line, and the greatest 

 depth of the body about 5^ times. The eye is one-fourth as long as the 

 head, and equal in length to the snout. The width of the interobital 

 space is contained 5 times in the length of the head. The upper jaw is 

 slightly longer than the eye. Strong teeth in the jaws. A few teeth 

 on the head of the vomer. The maxillary reaches a little beyond the 

 vertical through the anterior margin of the orbit. Cheeks and opercu- 

 lum with small scales in numerous rows. Preopercle entire. Gill mem- 

 branes very narrowly united. Opercular spine feeble. Gular region 

 naked. Scales of body very small, ctenoid. The belly is covered with 

 ordinary scales. Scales at the nape very small and numerous. Lateral 

 line complete, nearly straight, only slightly elevated over the anterior 

 half of the pectoral, following a little above the median line of the 

 body. 



The dorsal fins are separated by a very narrow interspace. The 

 longest dorsal spine is one-half the length of the head. The soft dorsal 

 is higher than the spinous dorsal, its longest ray being nearly two-thirds 

 as long as the head. The caudal seems to have been nearly truncate 



