892 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
545 (/>). F. xejiicus J. & G. 
(? (lark green ; sides ivitli 10 to 14 narrow, pearly bands, slightly ob- 
licpie, and mostly narrower than the interspaces; a diffuse dusky blotch 
below and behind eye; lower jaw orange; belly yellow; dorsal and anal 
blackish, with many round, pale-blue spots, besides orange spots near 
base of fin ; caudal barred, with some pale spots; ventrals dusky, tipped 
with yellow. $ greenish, with a faint dark lateral shade and some i)ale 
cross-bands; lower fins largely yellow; upper mostly dusky. Body 
very deep, much coini)ressed, much as in Cyprinodon ; the caudal pe- 
duncle very deep; the head depressed, rapidlj^ tapering to a sharp, con- 
ical snout; the anterior profile somewhat concave. Females and young 
with the back less elevated. Teeth very small, in a villiform band, those 
of the outer series wide-set and considerably larger. Eye large, 3 in 
head, If in iuterorbital si)ace; opercle adnate to shoulder-girdle above 
base of pectoral (as in Cyprinodon and Jordanella). Dorsal inserted in 
advance of anal, its origin midwuy between caudal and middle of eye, 
the longest raj’S in males reaching base of caudal. If in head; anal 
lower; ventrals If in head. Intestinal canal as long as body. Head 
3; depth 2 (2f to 2| in 9). D. 9 or 10; A. 11 or 12; V. 0; P. 14; B. 5; 
scales 25-10. L. 2 inches. Gulf coast. West Florida to Texas; locally 
very abundant in shallow lagoons. 
{Adinia muUifasdata Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 117; Jordan & Gil- 
bert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, not Hydrargyra mnlUfanciata Le Sueur, nor Fundulus 
adinia Jor. & Gilb.) 
Page 340. Zyyonectes atrilatus should probably be suppressed. It 
api)ears to be based on females of Gamhusia patruells. 
Page 340. Instead of Zyyonectes melanops read : 
552. a. fiEiMS’Hs J. & G. 
The known specimens of this sjiecies are from Cache Eiver, in South- 
ern Illinois. For the synonymy in the text substitute — 
(Zygonecies melanops Jordan, Bull. Illinois Lab. Nat. Hist, ii, 52, 1878 (not Haplochilus 
melanops Cope): Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882: IlaplocMlus melanops Cope 
and Z. melanops Hay are apparently Gamhusia patriielis.) 
Page 341. Zyyonectes hrachyptcrus is described by Professor Cope in 
Bull. IT. S. Nat. Mus. xx, 34, 1880. 
Page 341. After Zyyonectes dispar add: 
553 (5). Z. craticula Goode & Bean. 
Olivaceous; sides with about 6 sharply-defined, jet-black longitudinal 
