348 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV, 



inli:i')it the West Indies, Mexico, inul South America. (-'.x'..'.<>;, varie- 



gated.) 





 * Branchiostegala 5. (1'u.rilin.) 



56. P. coticliiuiia (Girard) Jor. & Gilb. 



Body short, back convex; lieud small; scales very large. Brownish, 

 each scale with a large brown spot; an obscure black lateral band; fins 

 plain, event the dorsal, which has a few black spots. Ilead 4. 1). 9; 

 A. G. Nuevo Leon, Mexico. (Ginml.) 



(Liinia coitdtiana Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1839, 116: PceciUa couchii Giiuther, 

 vi, 347.) 



164.-CJIRARDINUS Poey.* 



(Poey, Mem. Cuba, i, 383, l^.'.l : type Gintnliiuit mi'taUiciis Poey, from Cul>a.) 



Body moderately sleuder ; mouth small ; mandible very short, its 

 bones not united; snout short; both jaws with a single series of slen- 

 der, movable, pointed teeth ; scales father large,; anal fin more or less 

 ill advance of dorsal, in the male modified into an intromittent organ; 

 intestinal canal elongate; mud eating. Very small fishes, the smallest 



I'LATYriKCIU'S Giinther. 



(Ciinther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. vi, 350, 18(36: typo rinli//><>< -Him tmu-ulntitx Giinther.) 

 all lislirs allied to CirartHnii-i, Imt with tin- origin oi' the anal lin li.-hind that of 

 the dorsal. Mexico. (itXarvS, broad ; iroixlA.o$, Pcooihu=Pceeitta.) 



P. maculatiia Gtbr. 



Body much compressed and elevated. Caudal peduncle short and deep. Olivaceous, 

 n roundish Mark spot on middle of root of caudal ; a l>lack spot oil middle of side, of 

 body ; dorsal often spotted \vith black : margins of anal and caudal black. Head 3J ; 

 depth -J^. D. 10 ; A. 9 ; scales 25-8. L. li inches. Mexico. (Gunthcr.) 



(Giintlier, vi, :!.'.(!. ) 



GOODEA Jordan. 



(Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. l-T:i. 899: type Goodea alripiiinis Jor.) 



I'oriii of i'liniliiliii. Uut with the intestinal canal elongate, the dentary bones loosely 

 joined, and the teeth slender, movable, tri<-if<j>i<l, attached in a single sciies on the 

 outer ed U 'e of the ja\\s, not closely set. Fi us small . the dorsal and anal similar, the 

 d"isal sl'mhlly in advance of anal. No spines. Scales moderate. LimnOphagOOS. 

 S.-xual chaie^es, if any, unknown. Mexico. (Dedicated to G. Brown Goode.) 



('.. iitri/iiiinix Jordan. 



Bluish above: sides nearly ]laiu : a silvery streak alnn.ix each row of scales. 

 Yiriical lins cliiclls l.lark , . s|,,-eia lly on the distal half. Body oblong, eompi e> M -d, 

 tlieb.iek nearly st mi-lit, tho caudal peduncle dei-|>. Head short, broad, depressed. 

 Mouth small. Lower jaw projecting. TcHh ]oosel\ inserted, not oloae together. K.NC 

 3^ in head, a little more than half the \\idth of (lie inlerorbital space. Humeral 

 scale somewhat enlaru'-d. 1 'ins small. Dorsal slightly in ad\ ance of anal. Caudal 

 small. Head I: depth I. [>. 12 J \. 1-: l.at. 1. 38) L. trausv. 13. L. 4 inches. 

 Guanajuato, Mexico. From a salt lake in a volcanic basin. 



(Jordan, Proc. U. >S. Nat. Mus. l-7:>, -JW.J 



