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Evermann — A New Trout from Lower California. 



Figure 1 . 

 Fundulus meeki Evermann. Type 



large spots; below this a less distinct series of blackish spots, all these 

 marks varying much in distinctness; lower part of side and ventral sur- 

 face yellowish white; tins all dusky. 



In the male (cotype, No. 61,059, U. S. X. M.j the scales are exceed- 

 ingly rough, particularly along the side and on the caudal peduncle, this 

 roughness being due to small, sharp, spinelike tubercles on the posterior 

 edge of the scales. The males differ from the females also in being much 

 darker in color. 



Type, No. 61,058, U. S. X. M., a female 3.25 inches long, collected 

 < (ctolicr s. 1905, by Mr. E. \Y. Nelson, from a small stream flowing from 

 large springs at San [gnacio, central Lower California. Cotypes, - males 

 and 1<> females ranging in length by from 2 to 3% inches, all collected 

 by Mr. Nelson from the same stream. < )ne or more of these cotypes have 

 been deposited in each of the following museums : U.S. National Museum, 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 1619), Stanford University, Field Museum 

 of Natural History, American Museum of Natural History, Indiana Uni- 

 versity and Museum of Comparative Zoology- 

 It is with peculiar pleasure that I name this new species of Fundulus 

 for my life-long friend, Dr. Seth Eugene Meek, Assistant Curator of 

 Zoology in the Field Museum of Natural History, in recognition of his 

 excellent work on the geographic distribution of the freshwater fishes of 

 Mexico, and with pleasant memories of the days when we were jointly 

 preparing our first paper in systematic ichthyology. 



Salmo nelsoni Evermann, sp. nov. 

 LOWER CALIFORNIA TROUT. Plate I. 



Description of the type, a specimen L65 mm. in length to tip of caudal 

 tin: 



Head 3.75 in length to base of caudal ; depth.4; eye 4 in head; snout 4; 

 maxillary 2.1; mandible 1.8; 1>. 10; A. 10; scales 38-170-26, about 117 

 pores. 



