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lateral line; mandible i^^Ae in head; fourth developed dorsal 

 ray 2j^ ; second developed anal ray 2j^; lower caudal lobe 

 i^Vi2; least depth of caudal 5%; pectoral 2^; ventral 2%; 

 snout 2^4 in head measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 7; max- 

 illary 2V15; interorbital space 5%; branchiostegals 16. Body 

 long, slender, compressed, deepest near middle and tapering back 

 to a slender caudal peduncle. Head long, compressed posteriorly. 

 Snout rather broad, depressed, and maxillaries protruding later- 

 ally. Eye high, a trifle posterior, and a little oval, narrower end 

 anterior. Maxillary reaching front of orbit, but not quite to front 

 rim of pupil. Teeth rather small, those in front of upper jaw and 

 several along side of each ramus of mandible a little enlarged. 

 Teeth on tongue minute. Nostrils similar, close together, rather 

 large, and anterior about last third in snout. Interorbital space 

 flat, a trifle concave medianly. Side of mandible with a broad 

 thin labial fold. Gill-rakers as a series of very fine or minute 

 asperities. Scales small, smaller on back medianly and base of 

 caudal. Cheek and opercle scaly. Scattered tubes similar to those 

 in lateral line above and below its course. Dorsal inserted about 

 last four-nineteenths in head and trunk, median rays highest. 

 Anal opposite and similar. Caudal emarginate. Pectoral about 

 half way to ventral. Ventral inserted nearer origin of anal than 

 that of pectoral. Color deep olive on back, below whitish. Sides 

 with dark reticulating lines, mostly horizontal. A dark streak 

 below eye. Length 95^ inches. Cedar Swamp Creek, in the 

 Great Egg Harbor basin. 



Color in life brown, peritoneum of abdomen showing through 

 as purple and bluish. A median pale dusky streak from tip of 

 snout to opercle, and a little posteriorly along side of trunk just 

 above line of demarcation of color. A median pale streak down 

 back from tip of snout to dorsal. Black line on side of head also 

 continued on side oi head across iris. Iris white, chrome above. 

 Margins of jaws dusky. Lower surface of head pale translucent 

 brown. Thorax and opercular region with ruddy-purple reflec- 

 tions. Region from ventral to^ anal narrowly and medianly with 

 slight silvery reflections showing through. Fins pale brown with 

 dull dusky shades. Length i^ inches. Another example 6 



