Jordan and ETermann. — Fishes of North America. 665 



and Withlacoochee rivers. A very small but prettily colored fish. 



(Named for Dr. George Browu Goode, its discoverer.) 



lAimiiiii gonih'i, .Jordan, I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 240, Arlington River, Florida, a tribu- 

 tary of the St. John's. (Typo, No. 23505. Coll. Dr. Goodo.) .Jordan & Gii.hert, Syn- 

 opsis, .343, 18S3; Wooi.man, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., x, 1890, 294, pi. r,2, fig. 2. 



977. LUCANIA VENUSTA, Girard. 

 Head 3* ; depth 3i ; eye 3. D. 11 or 12 ; A. 9 or 10 ; scales 26-8. Body fusi- 

 form, rather strongly compressed, the dorsal and ventral outlines about 

 equally arched : head narrow, compressed, flattened above the eyes, the 

 upper profile of snout both longitudinally and transversely convex ; snout 

 compressed, conspicuously shortened, and vertically rounded, its height 

 greater than its width ; caudal peduncle long and rather slender, its 

 greatest height Ij in head, its length slightly less than head ; mouth very 

 small, protractile forward, the lower jaw very much projecting in open 

 mouth; mandible heavy, short, and strongly convex, less than diameter 

 of orbit; teeth small, but firm and strong, conical, in a single series in 

 each jaw, or forming an irregular double series anteriorly; no villiform 

 teeth behind this outer series ; eye large, slightly shoi'ter than inter- 

 orbital width, and greater than length of snout. Intestinal canal 

 rather less than length of body. Origin of dorsal fin nearly midway 

 between tip of snout and base of caudal, the longest ray (in ^ ) equaling 

 the length of its base ; origin of anal fin under middle of dorsal ; ovi- 

 duct not attached to first anal ray, but produced backward, forming a 

 low sheath on both sides at base of first 6 rays ; length of anal base 

 i head; longest ray ( c? ) i head; caudal V^ in head; pectorals long, 

 reaching beyond base of ventrals, If in head ; ventrals reaching slightly 

 beyond vent, 14 in head. Color ( ^ ) light olive, pale on belly ; sides with 

 some silvery luster and with indistinct trace of an obsolete dusky lateral 

 stripe ; scales conspicuously dark-edged ; opercles and cheeks bright 

 silvery; dorsal and caudal light yellow, and, as well as the anal, nar- 

 rowly magined with black ; dorsal with an elongate, vertical black 

 blotch at anterior margin, a yellow spot behind it ; a vertical dusky 

 streak behind each dorsal ray, composed of fine black points ; anal 

 orange or translucent, white at base ; ventrals similar to anal ; pectorals 

 pale yellowish ; a dark vertical streak through iris. 9 similar, fins all 

 plain. Length about 2 inches. Lagoons and inlets of the coast of the 

 Gulf of Mexico, exceedingly abundant about Pensacola, and westward 

 to the mouth of the Rio Grande; a pretty little fish, here described from 

 Pensacola specimens, {venustus, pretty.) 



Umiavennaln, Girarh, U. S. Mex.' Bound. Surv., Iclitli., 71, iil. 3ll, figs 20-23, ISnO, Indianola, 



Texas. (Coll. CKark.) 

 Lucania nfnm, Girard, I'roc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 118, Matamoras. 

 Liicania venusia, Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 118; Gi'NTilF.R, Cat., vi, 310, 1806; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 343, 893, 1883; .Jordan, Proc. V. S. Nat. Shis., 1882, 257. 



97H. LUCANIA PAUTA (Baird & Girard). 

 (Rainwater Fish.) 

 Head 3i ; depth 3i : eye 3. D. 10 to 12; A. 10 or 11; scales 2r>-8. 

 Body much deeper than in Lucania venusta, the form resembling that of 



