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9 , olivaceous, sides paler olive, witli metallic lustre; belly white; 

 7 to 15 very narrow sbari)ly-defiued black bars on sides, not exteudiug 

 on the back, scarcely broader than the pupil ; scales marked as in the 

 males, but much more faintly. Fins pale, almost immaculate. 



This species is very abundant at Pensacola., where many specimens 

 Mere collected ; it Avas also obtained at New Orleans. The Galveston 

 specimens show quite constantly: D. 11, A. 9, head 3^ in length ; eye 

 smaller, If in interorbital width, and width of preorbital 5^ in head; 

 and may represent a tangible variety. 



22. Fundulus grandis Gnl. G. P. (1^083';.) 



FtindHhisjLrklnisis Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1859, 157. 



Body stout, robust; adult females much compressed and elevated; 

 caudal peduncle short and rather deep, its greatest dei)th (iu $ , 5 inches 

 long) equaling- its length, which equals one-half length of head ; head 

 long, broad, and heavy, the lower jaw conspicuously longer than the 

 upper, and very strong; teeth in a narrow villiform patch, the outer series 

 in each jaw enlarged ; preorbital narrow, about one-half diameter of 

 orbit; eye large, slightly less than length of snout or mandible, 1 to IJ 

 in head, slightly more than one-half interorbital space. 



Dorsal tin small arid low, but little elevated, in males 4.i inches long", 

 where the tips reacli scarcely more than half way from base of fin to 

 root of caudal; the rays still shorter in adult females; origin of dorsal 

 usually slightly nearer tip of caudal than tip of snout; base of dorsal 

 contained from 2J to 3 times in head; longest rays in male about one- 

 half head, somewhat less in females. Origin of anal under fourth or 

 fifth ray of dorsal, its base equallinry length of snout; longest ray iu 

 males If iu head, in females 2 to 2^ times ; oviduct attached to first anal 

 ray for a distance more than one-third length of ray ; ventrals barely 

 reaching vent in males, about 2^ in head ; pectorals large, reaching to 

 or beyond base of ventrals, and half or more than half length of head; 

 caudal about 1^ in head. 



Scales in 35 to 38 oblique rows ; 15 in an oblique series from vent for- 

 wards to middle of back. 



Head 3 to 3^ in length ; depth 3f to 3| ; D. 11 ; A. 10 or 11 ; scales 

 35 to 38-15. 



Color: ^, very dark green above, paler posteriorly; sides with 

 numerous small, round, pearly-white spots, occasionally some of them 

 arranged in vertical series ; posteriorly with traces of 8 to 10 very nar- 

 row, pale, vertical bars, alternating with broader, faint, dusky ones ; belly 

 yellowish ; sides of head dusky. Caudal greenish, abnost black behind, 

 its edge translucent ; the basal part with numerous small white spots. 

 Dorsal olive, anteriorly orange, blackish on basal half, and marked with 

 numerous small white spots. Anal and ventrals bright orange, the 

 former sometimes dusky, and frequently with several white specks at 

 base. Pectorals light vellow. 



