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caudal rays they have two or three more transverse bands (not in female), 

 on the caudal fin and occasionally a black tip to the tail. 



The female is an exquisite little fish. The most striking marks are the 

 two ocelli one at the base of the tail and one just ahead and above the 

 origin of the anal. A lateral brown band reaches from the anal almost to 

 the caudal ocellus where it may fork and join the caudal transverse brown 

 band above or below. From the tip of the snout backward along the 

 dorsum to the base of the tail is an area of brown minute dots. This 

 area continues as a transverse band around the base of the tail and as a 

 line on the lower edge of the caudal peduncle until it reaches the anal fin 

 where it forks and proceeds to the vent. Sometimes each of these forks 

 join a lateral band which faintly runs from the anal ocellus forward half- 

 way to the pectoral fin. Then from the pectoral fin forward across the 

 opercle and through the eye to the tip of the snout there is a faint sug- 

 gestion of the lateral band of Lucania goodei. Between the brown areas 

 and bands, on the belly and around the caudal ocellus are more or less 

 sharp straw-colored areas. 



We found this species in almost all the open prairies visited, in wooded 

 waterways between islands, in cut-off ponds on the islands and in sphag- 

 nous areas. Its associates were Gambusia affinis, Fundulus cingulatus and 

 Fundidus nottii. The discovery of this fine little fish in the swamp is one 

 of the best fish records of the Okefinokee list. 



Recently, the authors noticed two other records for this same species; 

 one captured at Port Saint Joe, Fla., in Jan., 1917 (Aquatic Life, Mar., 1919, 

 IV, No. 7, pp. 89, 90); and the other at a pond of Milltown, Ga. (tribu- 

 tary to Allapaha River) in May, 1919 (ibid., Jan., 1920, V, No. 1, p. 2). 

 The first of these by Mr. W. W. Welch is synchronous with Mr. Harper's 

 records in the Okefinokee Swamp for Dec. 26, 1916, Jan. 4, and Jan. 12, 

 1917; and the other by Dr. H. M. Smith is curiously from the same river 

 system as Woolman's specimens of 1890 and our material of 1912-1917. 

 It is interesting to note that these three records come from the three main 

 tributaries of the Suwanee, namely: Allapaha (Smith, 1919), Santa Fe 

 (Woolman, 1890), and source of main river of the Suwanee, the Okefinokee 

 Swamp (Wright and Palmer, Harper, 1912-1917) . In other words, the whole 

 Suwanee river system has it and as yet it seems the center of its greatest 

 abundance. Our account written sometime before the appearance of the 

 two recent articles agrees very closely with and only amplifies Mr. Welch's 

 description and his sketches represent our material of this species suffi- 

 ciently to obviate the contemplated figures of this article. — A . H. Wright 

 and E. L. Palmer. 



