49. CYPRINODONTID^ - LUCANIA. 343 



559. L. veamsta 6rd. 



Body oblong, much as in Zygonectcs. Dorsal midway ot body, mod- 

 erately elevated, muck in front of anal. Snout rather pointed. Brown- 

 ish, slightly spotted. Head 3J; depth 3. D. 13 ; A. 11; Lat. 1. 27. 

 L. 1 inches. Indianola, Tex. (Girard.) 



(Limia venusta Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 71, 1859; Girard, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 118; Giiuther, vi, 310: Lucania affinis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. PMla. 1859, 118.) 



560. JL. parva (B. & G.) Beau* 



Form elongated. Head less than one-fourth the length (with the 

 caudal). Eye 3 in head. Coloration plain. D. 10; A. 10; Y. G; L. 

 trans v. 8. Very small. Long Island. (Giinther.) 



(Cyprinodon parmis B. & G. Niuth Smithsonian Report, 1855, 345: Cyprinodon par- 

 vus Giiuther, vi, 307.) 



561. L. goodci Jordan. 



Body elliptical, rather elongate, the back considerably elevated to a 

 point just in front of the origin of the dorsal fin ; the caudal peduncle 

 rather deep and compressed. Head short, comparatively narrow, and 

 bluntly pointed. Mouth small, terminal; both jaws with rather large 

 conical canine-like teeth, apparently in a single series. Eye large, near 

 the middle of the side of the head, its diameter contained 2 to 2% times 

 in the length x>f the head, about equal to the width of the interorbital 

 space. Scales large, their exposed surfaces higher than long, in about 

 30 (20 to 32) longitudinal and 7 vertical series; humeral scale like the 

 others. Fins large, especially in the males ; origin of dorsal about mid- 

 way between snout and base of caudal, conspicuously in advance of 

 anal; height of dorsal fin in the males two-thirds the length of the head, 

 about equal to the length of the base of the fin; anal fin similar and 

 nearly as high and long, beginning nearly under the middle of the 

 dorsal; caudal moderate, sub truncate; ventrals long, in the males 



each with 20 or more rays, nearly opposite each other ; anal fin not modified in the 

 male. lutestinal canal short. Mexico. (Girardinus; ^Qf?, fish.) 



G. innominatus Bleeker. 



Head thick, the snout obtuse, the mandible being directed vertically upward; neck 

 arched so that the upper profile of the head is concave. Eye 5 in head, - the width 

 of interorbital space. Olivaceous, with brown cross-bands, which are sometimes 

 confluent. Head 4; depth 3. D. 20; A. 22; Lat. 1. 44. Vicinity of city of Mexico. 



(Lucania sp. Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 114; Bleeker, Cyprin. 484: 

 Limnurgus varivyatus Giinther, vi, 309.) 



* Dr. Bean informs us that this species, the types of which he has examined, 13 a 

 Lucania. 



