676 Bulletin 47, Untied Stales National Museum. 



profile not very Bteep: fius rather low, the dorsal and anal not nearly 

 reaching caudal; humeral scale not larger than the others; scales very 

 thick and firm, those on lower parts of body less reduced in size than 

 usual. Pectorals reaching middle of ventrals, which reach vent. Male in 

 life light olive; sides silvery, with 6 narrow, faint bars of coppery; sides 

 with a number of spots of bright clear yellow, besides the blotches of 

 orange found in the females ; lower jaw mostly golden ; 3 bright-yellow 

 stripes obliiiuely across the cheeks to the jaws; dorsal and caudal finely 

 speckled with olive; tip of dorsal orange, as also the lower edge of 

 caudal and anal; ventrals orange red; no ocellus on dorsal. Female 

 pale, with numerous blotches of light bright orange, these mostly 

 loni'-itudinally oblong on upper parts and irregular or vertical below ; 

 sides of head marked with bronze ; lower jaw whitish ; fins plain ; dorsal 

 and caudal slightly yellow. Young females with traces of 1 or 2 dusky 

 bars at base of caudal. Still younger specimens (as in the original types) 

 nearly plain silvery. Coasts of southern Florida. Exceedingly abun- 

 dant in lagoons and shallow shores about the Florida Keys and north to 

 Pensacola. A strongly marked species, larger than most others of the 

 genus, reaching a length of 3 inches ; here described from Key West 

 specimens, {carpio, carp.) 



OijprbwdoH carjuo, Gi'NTHER, Cat., vi, 30fi, ISBd, America, locality unknown; .Jordan ct Gil- 

 bert, Synoiisis, 330, 1883. 



Ouprinuflon myiirus, GooDE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., 1882, 433, Pensacola, Florida. 

 (Type, No. 30479. Coll. Stearns.) Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 110. 



998. CYPRINODON FELICIANUS (Poey). 



Head 3^ in length with caudal; depth 2f ; eye 3^ in head. D. 12; A. 10; 

 scales 30. Back elevated ; mouth small, circular, with trifid teeth. Pec- 

 toral reaching vent; ventral small; male with small prickles on the scales. 

 Brownish, the belly yellow, reddish in life; body with 6 brown vertical 

 bands; dorsal dusky; pectoral and anal yellowish, edged with dusky; 

 caudal yellowish, with a terminal band of black, a rather faint bar at 

 base. Length 1| inches. Cuba. (Poey); not seen by us. (Named for 

 Felix Garcia y Chavez, of Havana.) 



Trifarcim felicianus, Poey, Synopsis, 412, 1867, Havana. (Coll. Poey.) 



994. CTPRINODON LATIFASCI ATI'S, Garmau. 



Head 4 in total length; depth 3. D. 12; A. 11; V.6; P. 14; scales 30-11. 

 Form and dentition of C. variegatus, the black caudal baud much wider ; 

 a light band from middle of opercle to lower half of caudal ; a dark band 

 above this, separated by a narrower band of light from the dark olive of 

 the back ; silvery color of belly separated from the light band on the 

 flanks by a short band of brown ; fins clouded with brown ; caudal with 

 a narrow dark baud across its base and a broad one across its extremity. 

 Parras, Coahuila, Mexico. (Garman); not seen by us. {lntit.s, broad; 

 fasdatus, banded.) 



Cijpr'modnn lcUifascialu.i, Garman, Bull. Mus. Com]). ZoiJl., viii, No. 3, 92, 1881, Parras, Coa- 

 huila, Mexico; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 329, 1883. 



