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irregularly scattered; vertical fins dark, with numerous small round 

 pale spots ; dorsal often with a blackish spot on its last ray ; females 

 nearly plain olivaceous above, lighter below; sides often with about 

 15 dark cross-bars or shades, more definite in the young. Length 

 about 6 inches. 



95. Fundulus grandis Baird & Girard. 



Fundulus grandis Baird & Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 l8 S3. 3 8 9'. Indiaiiola, Texas: Girard, Mex. Bd. Sur., 69, pi. 

 xxxvi, 1859: Evermann & Goldsborough, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Comm., 1901, 149; Progreso. 



Fundulus heteroclitus grandis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1896, 641. 



Fresh and brackish water lagoons of coast of Gulf of Mexico. 



Read 3; depth 4 to 4^; D. 10 or n; A. 9 or 10; scales 14 or 15 

 40 to 46. Body rather robust, compressed posteriorly ; interorbital 

 broad, 3 in head; eye 5^ to 6; snout 3> to 3^; longest dorsal ray 

 (3) 2 to (?) 2 y z . 



Color males dark green above, paler posteriorly; sides with many 

 small, round, pearly spots, some of them often in vertical series; pos- 

 terior y traces of 8 or 9 narrow, pale cross-bars alternating with broader, 

 faint, dusky ones; belly yellowish; base of caudal with numerous small 

 white spots ; dorsal olive with many small, white spots ; female olive 

 and silvery, with minute speckles below; sides usually with traces of 

 12 to 15 narrow, silvery, vertical bars, less than half as wide as the 

 dusky interspaces ; no white spots on body or fins ; fins mostly dusky 

 olive, nearly plain. Length about 6 inches. 



This species has been taken on the coast of Texas and of Yucatan, 

 and no doubt occurs in fresh water and brackish lagoons along the 

 eastern coast of Mexico. 



Fundulus labialis Gunther. 



Fundulus labialis Gunther, Cat., vi, 319, 1866; Rio San Geronimo, Guate- 

 mala; Yzabel: Gunther, Fishes Cent. Amer., 48, 1869, Rio San Geronimo; 

 Yzabel: Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, 644. 



Guatemala. 



Head 4 to 4^3 ; depth 4^; D. 13 or 14; A. 16 or 17; scales 15-37 to 39- Body 

 rather slender, head broad, slightly convex, its width being less than half of 

 the head; snout broad, obtuse, depressed; jaws equal in front; mandible very 

 short; upper lip well developed, broad, extending to the angle of the mouth; 

 diameter of the eye less than the length of the snout, about 4 in the head; origin 

 of dorsal fin midway between tip of caudal fin and eye, opposite anal fin; caudal 

 fin truncate, its basal third scaly. 



Color uniform brownish olive above, paler below; sometimes irregular, 

 cloudy markings on the tail ; fins plain ; the anal fin in male black at the base and 

 bright yellow on its marginal half; upper margin of dorsal fin of male yellow- 

 ish. (Gunther.) 



Known onlv from the above account. 



