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purplish and green reflections. A blackish transverse vertical 

 band on caudal peduncle at base of caudal. Peritoneum show- 

 ing through on ccelome. Lower surface of head pale translucent 

 brown sprinkled with dusky dots. Inside of gill-opening with 

 greenish and dusky. A blackish blotch from eye posteriorly 

 along and above opercle. Anal tube on belly coppery. Lips 

 dusky. Margin of caudal posteriorly and above narrowly whit- 

 ish. Length 2 inches. These notes from an example found with 

 Umbra and Hsox in the sphagnum of the Wading River, at 

 Speedwell, April 30th, 1904. 



Very abundant in tide-water in the lower Delaware. They are 

 mostly found concealed in thick vegetation during the day, 

 though I have frequently taken them with Unne acanthus, Apeltes,. 

 Fundulus, Brimyzon and other of our common tide-water fishes.. 

 Many examples from the Egg Harbor River, Batsto River and 

 Cedar Swamp Creek. 



Aphredoderiis sayaniis Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 

 p. 326. — Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 95.— 

 Abbott, Rep. U. S. F. Com., 1875-76, p. 840.— Bean, Bull. U. S 

 F. Com., VII, 1887, p. 145.— Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., IX,, 



1897. P- 357- 



Aphrodederus sayanus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 807. — 

 Abbott, Am. Nat., IV, 1870, pp. loi, 105, 107. 



Aphododerus sayanus Jordan, An. N. Y. Acad. Sci., I, 1879, 

 p. loi. — Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 132. — 

 Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, P- 478.— Cope, Am. Nat., XXX, 

 1896, p. 943. 



Family CENTRARCHID^. 



The Sun Fishes. 



Body more or less shortened and compressed. Regions above 

 and below axis of body nearly equally developed, and correspond- 

 ing to each other. Head compressed. Mouth terminal, large 

 or small. Teeth in villiform bands, outer slightly enlarged, with- 

 out canines. Teeth present on premaxillaries, lower jaw, vomer 

 and usually on palatines, also sometimes on tongue, pterygoids 



