198 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Head deep, compressed, flattened above. Muzzle blunt. Eye 

 large, circular, anterior. Mouth small, superior, with mandible 

 vertical and projecting. Maxillary vertical, not to nostril. Teeth 

 conic, uniserial and rather small. Upper jaw protractile. Nos- 

 tril superior anteriorly to eye in interorbital space. Interorbital 

 space broad and flattened. Gill-rakers 5 short weak points. 

 Scales large, forming a lateral line from opposite origin of dorsal 

 to base of caudal, consisting of a single puncture to each scale and 

 traversing 19 scales. At this point 4 scales above and 4 below. 

 Scales on top of head large. Small scales on base of caudal. 

 Scales on cheek in 2 series. Origin of dorsal midway between 

 tip of mandible and base of caudal. Origin of anal a little be- 

 hind that of dorsal. Caudal large, rounded. Pectoral reaching 

 beyond ventral. Ventral inserted wxU beyond dorsal and reach- 

 ing anal. Color olive, pale below, and edges of scales on back 

 slightly darker. Dorsal with a dusky spot anteriorly, ocellated 

 with orange and fin largely dusky-orange. Ventrals and anal 

 orange-red tipped with dusky. Caudal orange-yellow tipped with 

 black. Pectorals pale. Length i^Ae inches. Cape May. 



Known to me from 2 examples secured on the Cape May 

 marshes by Mr. H. L. Viereck who reports it as common. Mr. 

 Viereck during his mosquito investigations also reports that the 

 marshes of the greater portion of the southern part of the state 

 have been examined for Ganibiisia, but without success, though 

 many examples of Lncania, Fiinduhis, Cyprinodon and Menidia 

 were taken. The female is pale olive without the bright markings 

 of the male. 



Cyprinodon parvus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 820, from 

 Baird. 



Lucania parva Bean, Bull. U. S. F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 148, 

 PI. 2, fig. 18. 



Genus Cyprinodon Lacepede. 



The Pursy Minnows. 

 Cyprinodon variegatus Lacepede. 



Killi Fish. Pursy Minnow. 



Head 3^^ ; depth 2V10 ^ D. i, 10; A. i, 9; scales 24 in a lateral 

 series to base of caudal and 3 more on latter; 19 scales before 



