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final canal rather Ionic: three times length of body. Sexes similar. 

 (Dedicated to David S. Jordan.) 



.VJ1. J. lloridir Cm.iic A. r.-.-in. 



liody ovate, short and deep, with elevated hack, deep candal pe- 

 duncle, and sleep profile. Head moderate, flat and broad between the 

 eyes, its profile less steep than that of the back. Kyes lar^e. ,"..',-i in 

 head. Month small, anterior, the lower jaw projecting. Scales mod- 

 erate, the humeral scale not much enlarged. J)orsal fin inserted mid- 

 way between snout and base of candal, its first ray robust and spine- 

 like, grooved behind, longer than the diameter of the eye, and about 

 as lii-h as the succeeding soft rays. Fins all rather low, the ventrals 

 reaching just past the vent. Scales with strong concentric stria-. 

 Color olivaceous; sides orange or brassy, with a broad steely-blue 

 stupe aloni;- each series of scales; 4 or 5 vairue, dilt'use, black ver- 

 tical bars, most distinct in the young, nearly obsolete in the adult: a 

 lar.ue, difl'use, dusky blotch on the sides, below the dorsal spine; fins 

 mostly dark, the dorsal barred or speckled in the males, nearly plain 

 in the females, sometimes a dusky blotch on its last rays; body and 

 tins everywhere finely punctnlate with black; a dark bar below eye. 

 Bead 3; depth 2-24. D. I, 1<>, or 1, 17; A. I, 11, to I, i:; : Lat. 1. L>5-i'7 : 

 L. transv. 11 or lli. L. li inches. Streams of Central and Eastern 

 Florida; abundant. The above description from specimens taken by 

 Dr. .J. A. Ilenshall in San Sebastian Itiver. The original types were 

 from Lake Monroe. Herbivorous, at least in part. 

 (Goo.lr & li.-an, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 117, LST'J.) 



157, CYPKINODON Lac<5pode. 

 (Lrbla* Cuvior. ) 



(L:ii-('|ii-ilc, Hist. Nut. I'iis;. v, J-i'i. IHI:: ; type < 'i/i>rinn<lii rnri> <itnx Luc.) 



T.ody \ery short and stout, the back somewhat elevated. Mouth 

 small. Snoat short. Teeth moderate, incisor-like, tricuspid, in a sin- 

 gle serie<. Scales very lar^e; humeral scales usually enlai'.u'ed. Dor- 

 sal fin moilerate, inserted in advance of front of anal: its first ray not 

 enlarged; anal smaller; ventral fins small. Intestinal canal little 

 longer than body. ( iill -membra lies considerably united, free from the 

 isthmus. Chubby little fishes, inhabiting the brackish waters r*' 

 America, Southern Kurope, and Northern Africa; sometimes living ill 

 hot salt springs. (/')-//:/. >?, carp; <j<l<ir^ tooth.) 



