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longitudinal black stripes running from the head to the tail; these 

 stripes a little narrower than the interspaces and perfectly distinct even 

 on the caudal peduncle, the upper stripe rather faint and svicceeded 

 higher up by 1 or 2 other obsolete stripes; interspaces of the stripes 

 occupied, especially above, by a row of black dots forming the fainter 

 interrupted stripes of Professor Agassiz's description ; on the back these 

 rows of dots are rather more distinct than the continuous stripes ; a 

 median dorsal stripe present ; about 10 transverse bars of the width of 

 the longitudinal stripe, but fainter, and placed about 2 scales' width 

 apart, on the posterior half of the body ; lower surface of caudal pedun- 

 cle dotted with black, a black streak behind the edge of the opercle; 

 upper surface of the head dusky and also the snout and tip of lower jaw ; 

 a broad black mask covering the eyes and extending downward over the 

 cheeks; upper half of the operculum, the space in front of the eye, and 

 most of the lower jaw, orange red; lower half of the operculum and 

 anterior half of breast yellowish orange. Swamps and streams of 

 Florida and neighboring States ; not rare. Length \\ inches. (Gilbert. ) 

 A beautiful and strikingly colored little fish. Wo follow Dr. Hay in 

 identifying Zygonecte.s craticula with Fundidus notfii. According to Dr. 

 Gilbert, ZiK/onectes zonifer is the male of Fundulus nottii. (Named for Dr. 

 Nott, its discoverer.) 



Zi/gonedes notlii, Agabsiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 1854, 353, Mobile, Alabama ; Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Synopsis, 341, 1883 ; Hav, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 557. 



Zijgonecles lineolatns, AoASSlz, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 1854, 353, Augusta, Georgia. 



Fimdidus zonatiis, Cuvier & Valenciknner, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xviii, I'JG, 1840, interior of South 

 Carolina ; not Esox Mualus, Mitchill, with which it has been identifiocl. 



7,ijgonecles craticula * GooDE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 433, Elbow Creek, a tribu- 

 tary of Indian River, eastern Florida. (Type, No. 314.39. Coll. Heushall.) Jordan 

 ifc Gilbert, Synopsis, 892, 1883. 



Zygonectes zonifer, -f- Jordan & Meek, Proc. U. S. N^t. Mus., 1884, 482, Allapaha River, Nash- 

 ville, Georgia. (Type, No. 28,506. Coll. W. J. Taylor.) 



* The following is a description of the types of Zygonectes craticula : 



Head 3%; depth 5. D. 8; A. 9; scales 40-10. Body comparatively long and slender, littlo 

 compressed. Caudal peduncle long, rather slender. Head long, broad and depressed above. 

 Eye large, about ei|ual to snout, % interorbital width, 3}.^ in head. Lower .jaw heavy. Teeth 

 email, the outer scarcely enlarged. Fins all small. Olivaceous; sides with about G sharply d fined, 

 jet-black longitudinal stripes following the rows of scales, the stripes a little narrower than the 

 interspaces; a largo blackish blotch below eye; fius nearly plain, the upper somewhat dusky; 

 young with faint dark bars. 



•f- The following is a description of the types of FiindtUiis zonifer (Jordan &. Meek): 

 Head 37'^; depth 4^. I). 7; A. 9. Scales 36-11. Body moderately elongate, comproRSOd, the 

 head broad and depressed, the anterior profile somewhat concave above eyes. Head rather 

 pointed in profile, snout nearly as long as eye, which is about half the broad interorbital space 

 and 3J in head. Teeth quite small, tlie outer little enlarged. Scales rather small. Dorsal fin 

 much smaller than anal, and inserted nearly over the end of the first third of that fin. Anal 

 higher than dorsal, as well as longer, both fins highest in the male, in which they reach very 

 nearly to base of caudal. Insertion of dorsal midway between front of eye and tip of caudal. 

 Caudal rounded, about as long as head. Least depth of caudal peduncle half length of head. 

 Pectorals Ij in head, reaching slightly past front of ventrals. Yentrals nearly reachinganiil, 1^ 

 in head. Male dark olive above, with the edges of the scales a little darker; sides somewhat 

 Bilvery, with 12 sharply defined black crussliars, not half as wide as the interspaces, nearly ver- 

 tical, those near the middle of the body a littlo farther arart and a little more distinct than the 

 others; no longitudinal streaks ; fins without ocelli ; caudal entirely pl.'iin ; dorsal and anal with 

 distinct cross streaks of dark dots. Other specimens (perhaps females) with the color a little 

 darker; the black cross bands bro.idcr and more sharply defined; a conspicuous black blotch 

 below the eye; fins colored as in the nthers. Length 2'}^ inches, .'^wamps of South Carolina and 

 Georgia, the 3 types from Allapaha River, Nashville, Georgia, a tributary of the Suwannee. 



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