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iu head (in grandis 2); longest anal ray 1^ (in grandis 14); caudal 3i in 

 length (iu grandis 4); ventrals reaching front of anal, 2 iu head (iu gran- 

 dis 2| iu head, barely reaching vent); base of dorsal 2 iu head (in gran- 

 dis 2|). The youug of both sexes, one inch long, are conspicuously 

 barred with darker; iu females the bars narrower than the interspaces, 

 iu males much wider than the interspaces and less numerous. 



:28. Zygonectes cingulatus (C. & V.) Jordan. 



Fundulm zonatiis t-t v'nigulatux C. & V., xviii, 196, 197 (not Ef<ox zonatus Mitch.) 

 ? Hiidrargiira hicUi' Baird, Ninth Smithaou. Rept., 1H.")5, 344. ( <? '/) 

 HaplocMlus chnjwtuH Giinther, vi, 'Ml. 



A siugle specimen from Black Iliver, South Carolina, presented by Dr. 

 G. E. Manigault, agrees in most respects with Giinther's description of 

 H. chrysotus. It differs in having all the vertical fins dotted with brown, 

 the dots not forming distinct cross bauds on the caudal, and in having 

 the dorsal inserted rather uiore anteriorly (opposite the third anal ray 

 instead of the tifth). The following is a detailed description of our 

 si^ecimen : 



Body short and robust; the caudal peduncle high and compressed, its 

 least height 1^ in head; head short, wide, and flat, the interorbital width 

 one-half its length. Teeth iu jaws iu a narrow band, the outer series 

 much enlarged, those iu the lower jaw larger and more numerous than 

 those of the upper. Snout very short and blunt, the two jaws nearly 

 equal iu closed mouth; length of snout nearly two-thirds diameter of 

 orbit, which is contained 1^ times iu interorbital width, aud 3^ times iu 

 head. 



Origin of dorsal midway between tip of caudal aud posterior rim of 

 orbit; its distance from base of caudal one-half distance from front of 

 ■orbit; base of dorsal 2^ iu head, its height If iu head; its origin is 

 opposite the nineteenth scale of lateral liue, and the third ray of the 

 iinal fin. 



Base of anal fin rather less than half length of head, its greatest height 

 somewhat more than half; dorsal and anal not nearly reaching caudal 

 when depressed. Caudal mutilated, ai)parently broadly rounded. 



Pectorals reaching ventrals, If in head. Ventrals short, not nearly 

 reaching vent, one-half head. 



Head, 3^ iu length; depth, 34; D. 9; A. 11; scales, 32-12. L. la 

 inches. 



Color in spirits: Light olive-brown, top of head and a narrow median 

 streak in front of dorsal flu darker; middle of sides, especially behind, 

 with rather indistinct pearl-colored dots; middle of sides of trunk and 

 tail with about 14, not clearly defined, narrow half- bars; an elongate 

 dark area above base of pectorals. Vertical fins with small, black 

 specks, less numerous on caudal tin; other fins i)lain. 



