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serted slightly before dorsal and rather more developed. Tail 

 large. Ventral small, reaching vent. Color dark olive-green 

 above, lower part of sides and beneath rich ochre-yellow. Sides 

 with 10 or 12 broad well defined vertical dark bars, nearly as 

 large as inter-spaces which are of faint greenish-white tint. All 

 fins but dorsal uniform yellowish, lighter on abdomen. Dorsal 

 yellow on terminal half, basal portions olivaceous with a large 

 black spot posteriorly, and immediately anterior to it a white 

 one. Dark spot bordered above and behind by yellow part men- 

 tioned. One example with posterior half of base of dorsal dull 

 w^hite, with large subcircular spot of black in center. Pectoral 

 similar, dorsal unspotted and yellow less intense. Length i inch. 

 In a small ditch at Robinson's Landing, Peck's beach, opposite 

 Beesley's Point. (Baird.) 



Known only from the above account by Baird. Dr. Abbott 

 says that it proves to be quite common in the brackish waters of 

 the .state generally, a statement which needs verification. 



Hydrargyra htcice Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 



344. 



Micristhts lucias Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 820. 

 Fimduhis liicicE Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 147, 

 from Baird. 



Genus Lucania Girard. 



The Rain Water Fishes. 

 Lucania parva (Baird). 



Little Killie Fish. 



Head 3^/7 ; depth 3^^ ; D. 11, 8; A. iv, 7; scales 28 in lateral 

 line to base of caudal and 2 more on latter; 13 scales before 

 dorsal ; 9 scales between origins of dorsal and anal ; height of 

 dorsal i ^ in head ; height of anal 2 ; caudal i }i ', least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 1% ; snout 4% in head measured from tip of 

 upper jaw; eye 2^ ; maxillary 3 ; interorbital space 2^. Body 

 rather deep, compressed, greatest depth at origin of ventral, back 

 not elevated and lower profile much more convex anteriorly, also 

 much more so than upper. Caudal peduncle deep, compressed. 



