Jordan and Evermanii. — Fishes of North America. C47 



sides and below silvery white, the sides tinged with sulphur yellow • 

 the greater part of each scale on back rendered dusky by black points; 

 sides with 14 to 18 dusky bars from back to ventral region, occasionally 

 meeting on ventral line ; these bars are very variable in width, seemingly 

 narrower in females, in which half bars are frequently inserted between 

 the others; the interspaces are as wide as the bars, or usually wider. 

 Pins yellowish, without distinct markings, in the males all very dusky 

 except the anal. Length 3 inches. Kansas, western Iowa, and South 

 Dakota, and south to Kentucky, Texas, and New Mexico ; abundant in 

 Font-qui-Bouille Creek at Pueblo, and in most clear tributaries of the 

 upper Arkansas, (zebrinus, like a zebra.) 



HyJranji/ra :.ebm, GiRAnn, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philii., 1859, (iO, tributaries of Rio Grande, 

 "between Fort Defiance and Fort Union, New Mexico;" iiame iireoccupied by 

 I'uiulubis :.ehra, De Kay. 



Fundiilus zebra, Gi'NTHF.R, Cat., vi, 324, 1866, not of De Kay ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 333, 

 1883. 



Fuiidulus zebrimis, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 891, 1883, (after Gibabd); Gilbert, Bull. Wash- 

 burn Lab. Nat. Hist., 1, 1884, 15. 



942. FUNDULUS SEMINOLIS, Girard. 



Head 4^ to 4i^ ; depth 5f to 6i. D. 17 ; A. 13 ; eye 4 ; scales 52. Body 

 slender, not compressed ; back not elevated ; caudal peduncle deep, depth 

 the same as the height of dorsal, and also equal to the distance from the 

 end of the snout to middle of pupil; head long and pointed, somewhat 

 pyramidal; depth of body equal to distance from end of snout to hinder 

 margin of preopercle ; eye of medium size, f the interorbital space. Teeth 

 in two rows, those of the outer row in the lower jaw much enlarged ; all 

 pointed, movable, and curved inward. Dorsal tin longer than anal, the 

 rays growing gradually shorter from the fifth to the last, giving the top 

 of the fin a gentle convex curve ; origin of dorsal above the termination of 

 theventrals ; anal short, length of longest rays If thatof base of fin, fourth 

 ray longest, growing rapidly shorter to the last; posterior margin below 

 posterior margin of the dorsal ; ventrals small and short, not reaching 

 vent ; pectorals broad, barely reaching ventrals. Ground color olive green 

 in the larger specimens, brighter in the males, or of a somewhat yellow- 

 ish brown, caused by the scales having dark edges ; male specimens usually 

 with several longitudinal stripes formed of dark spots in the angles of the 

 scales, making knots in the net which is formed by the dark borders of 

 the scales; these spots 'larger on the back; these markings wanting in 

 some specimens; all of the young, and the older females, crossed by 12 

 or 14 faint dark bars; fins often plain, but in developed males the dorsal 

 and caudal have large dark spots arranged on bars ; outer part of caudal 

 mostly black in males; ventrals and anal orange, the outer edge black. 

 Rivers and swamps of Florida ; locally abundant. A handsome, sleek- 

 looking species, well distinguished from all the others. (Named for the 

 Seminole Indians, in whose domain it is found.) 

 Ftmdubts seminolis, GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 59, Palatka, Florida ; 



GOnther, Cat., VI, 325, 1866; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 334, 1883; Woolman, Bull. U.S. 



Fish Coram., x, 1890, 297, pi. 52, fig. 3, (good figure); Lonnbero, Ufveis. Kong. Vet. Akad. 



FiJrh., 116, 1894. 



