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mouth rather large ; jaws each with a series of long and rather slender 
canine-like teeth, behind which is a band of small teeth ; the canines 
larger in the lower jaw ; eye large; scales rather large ; dorsal fin short 
and high, inserted slightly behind the anal in the males, exactly opposite 
it in the females; caudal large; anal fin larger and rather lower than 
dorsal; ventrals quite small; pectorals moderate. General color oliva- 
ceous ; sides covered, especially posteriorly, with rather large, irregu- 
larly placed orange spots, which also extend on the vertical fins ; dorsal 
dusky, with a dark bar; head without red; caudal and anal more or 
less yellow; females obscurely marked ; young with diffuse greenish 
vertical bars. Head in length to base of caudal; depth 4. B. 5; 
D. 7 or 8; A. 10 or 11; Lat. 1. 33; L. transv. 10. L. 3-4 inches. San 
Sebastian Eiver, Florida. The largest species of the genus, looking 
like a Fundulus. 
(Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 327.) 
54§. S. floripiiSBSis (Cope) Jor. 
General form of Z. notatus ; lower jaw somewhat projecting; external 
series of teeth in both jaws enlarged; eye large, 3^ in head. Olive gray, 
scales with ochre borders; fins yellow, broadly edged with crimson. 
Head 4^; depths. D. 10; A. 13; scales 29-10. L. 2^ inches. Eivers 
of Colorado. {Cope.) 
{Haplochilus floripinnis Cope, Zool. Lieut. Wheeler’s Expl. W. lOOth Mer. v, G95, 1876. 
549. Z. SBDBeatus Garman. 
Brownish, finely imnctulate with brown; white below; lips, top of 
head, and a line along middle of back dark ; tail with faint transverse 
bands. Moderately stout, comiiressed. Crown flat. Eye large, as 
long as snout. If in iuterorbital width. Lower jaw slightly longer. 
Outer teeth long, slender, curved. First ray of dorsal almost opposite 
first of anal, one-third the distance from base of caudal to front of eye; 
caudal truncate. Head nearly 3; depth 4f. D. 11; A. 14; Y. G; P.15; 
Lat. 1. 36; L. transv. 12. iN'ortheastern Wyoming. (Garman.) 
(Garman, Bull. Mus. Zool. viii, No. 3, 88, 1881.) 
aa. Skies with a broad, dark lateral band ; fins ijlain or speckled. 
55®, Z. notatus (Eaf.) Jor. — To^j Minnow. 
Body rather slender, compressed behind. Head low, depressed, and 
rather elongate, the snout somewhat produced, the lower jaw scarcely 
projecting; interorbital space broad, its width about half length of 
head; eye large, less than snout, about 3 in head. Fins moderate, the 
