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9e4. FUNDIILUS GTJTTATUS (Agassiz). 



Head 3f ; depth nearly 5; eye large, 3 iu head. D. 6 or 7; A. 8 or 9; 

 scales 36-12. Body elongate, moderately stout, compressed posteriorly ; 

 back slightly elevated ; caudal peduncle moderate. Head moderate, 

 flat above, broad between the eyes; mouth moderate; jaws armed with 

 an outer series of rather long and slender teeth, behind which is a band 

 of smaller teeth. Scales moderate. Dorsal fin short and small, its height 

 2 in head, its insertion opposite that of the anal in the female, but a 

 little more posterior in the male; anal short, rather high, 1^ iu head; 

 veutrals just reaching vent, nearly 2 iu head; pectorals 1^ in head. 

 General color in life orange brown ; each scale with a black edge, these 

 forming distinct longitudinal stripes; upper surface of head dark; jaws, 

 opercles, and area in front of eyes bright orange ; suborbital region jet 

 black; area above opercle extending across back orange, suffused with 

 dusky ; under parts orange ; all the fins dusky. In the females the spots 

 on the scales are more suffused. . Swamps and streams, Florida to Texas; 

 not rare; here described from Bollman's types of Zygonectes escamhim, 

 (guitatus, spotted.) 



Zygonectes guttalus, A«ASSiz, Anier. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 1854, 353, Mobile, Alabama; Jordan & 



Gii.iiERT, Synopsis, 341, 1883. 

 Zygoneelcs escamJiur, BoLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mtis., 1883, 403, Escambia River, Flomaton, 



Alabama; (Type, No. 37995. Coll. BoUman); Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., ISiil 



(1892>, 87. 



96.5. FUNDULUS HIEROGLTPHICUS (Agassiz). 



This species is thus described: "Anterior and upper parts of the body 

 sprinkled with dark dots, passing into longitudinal rows backward. 

 Light olive above ; silvery on the sides and below." (Agassiz.) Mobile, 

 Alabama. It has not been recognized by subsequent collectors, but may 

 bo distinct, (hieroghjjihicusj bearing marks like hawk tracks; lepoc, 

 hawk; yAii^w, cut out.) 



Zygonectes hieroghjpliicna, Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 1854, 353, Mobile, Alabama; Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 341, 1883. 



966. FUNDULUS DISPAR (Agassiz). 



Head 3|; depth 3^. D. 7; A. 9 ; scales 35-10. Body short and deep, 

 much coTiipressed. Head short and very broad, the flat interorbitpl space 

 being '^ of its length, and barely twice the diameter of the eye ; the dis- 

 tance between the eyes above greater than the distance between them 

 below. Snout broadly rounded. Fins moderate ; dorsal much smaller 

 than anal. Outer series of teeth somewhat enlarged. Coloration pale 

 olise, bluish in life; a very distinct brownish line along the edges of 

 each row of scales, appearing wavy or serrated as it follows the scales; 

 about 10 of these longitudinal stripes are present ; males with the lines 

 interrupted, appearing as series of dots, and further marked by about 9 

 dark crossbars ; adults with a black blotch below the eye, sometimes 

 confluent with it. Oviduct free from anal. Length 2^ inches. Lakes 

 and sluggish streams from northern Ohio to Missouri, and south to Missis- 

 sippi ; locally abundant; recorded from the Maumee, Wabash, Illinois, 



