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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[June, 



back in mouth. Upper buccal fold moderately broad, lower nar- 

 rower. Nostrils lateral on snout above, near front of eye. Inter- 

 orbital slightly convex. Hind preopercle edge slightly inclined 

 backwards. 



Gill-opening' extends forward about opposite hind pupil edge. 

 Gill-rakers about 1 + 7 short robust points, much shorter than gill- 

 filaments, latter about If in eye. Isthmus narrow. 



Scales cycloid, with many concentric striae, little smaller on breast 

 and belly, more so on caudal base. Scales larger on head above 

 and front predorsal region. Lateral line imperfect and incomplete, 

 at row of pores, one to each scale in middle of its exposure, to 

 ventral, behind latter dropping a row of scales and then extending 

 to caudal base. 



Dorsal origin about last third in space between centre of eye and 

 caudal base, sixth branched ray highest, and depressed fin extending 



Fig. 2. — Fundulus balhoce Fowler. 



back to caudal base. Front § of anal base before dorsal or origin 

 of fin little nearer gill-opening than caudal base, fin like dorsal, only 

 falling slightly shorter of caudal base. Caudal oblong, hind edge 

 apparently slightly convex. Pectoral small, reaches f to ventral, 

 latter reaching anal. 



Color in alcohol dark olive-brownish generally, with apparently 

 more or less uniform ground-color. A dark or dusky longitudinal 

 band from mouth to eye, behind latter to gill-opening and continued 

 to caudal base. After gill-opening this band extends below median 

 axis, of trunk, and its width slightly less than vertical eye-diameter. 

 Iris warm brownish. Fins uniform pale brownish, except dorsal 

 and upper part of caudal, which marked with a few rather wide-set 

 dark brownish spots. 



Length 62 mm. 



