332 COXTRIDUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
• Dorsal fin lu'^inuin^ in advance of anal. 
t llranehio.steoals (). (//(/drrt)v/i/r« * Lac6pedc.) 
a Males with dark cross-bars; females with longitudinal stripes. 
F. iii:ij:ilis (Walh.) (Jthr. — Killifish ; Maiifish ; Hockfmh. 
1 Jody oblono-, scarcely elevated, little compressed; head rather pro- 
loiio-ed anteriorly, the month small, terminal and very oblitpie; scales 
rather larye; dorsal lin modertite; anal hn very In'o-h in tlie males, mod- 
erate in the females ; ventrals lon^ in the males, retichino- past front of 
anal; eye moderate, shorter than snout and than interorbital space; a 
slijiht ang;le formed by the prolile, in front of the eye, due to the ^•Teater 
llatteninji’ of the snout. Male fishes dark olivaceous above; sides sil- 
very or somewhat g,’olden, with about a dozen broad transverse bars of 
the coloi- of the back; posterior part of dorsal tin with a black patch; 
fins yellowish or pale. Females olivaceous above, Avhite below, a narrow 
black band along- sides about on the level of the eye and as wide as the 
pupil; below this two similar black bars anteriorly and one posteriorly, 
the upper one being interrn[)ted ; one or two black bars at base of cau- 
dal. Females usually larger than the males. A large specimen taken at 
Beaufort, X. C., su[)posed to be a male of this siiecies in high coloration, 
showed the following colors in life: Back olive, sides and belly bright 
salmon yellow ; lower fins clear yellow ; pectorals and anal with some 
dusky; i)osterior edge of caudal dark ; dorsal nearly all black, a large 
black occllated spot on the last rays; opercles and under parts of head 
with an inky suffusion; cheeks, top of head, and mouth bronze yellow; 
sides with about 18 narrow dusky vertical bars. Teeth in a broad band; 
an outer row of rather large teeth. Oviduct adnate to first anal ray for 
a short distance. Head 3|; depth 4. I). 12; A. 10; Lat. 1. 3G; L. 
transv. 13. L. .1-0 inches. Cape Cod to Florida, the largest of our 
Cyprinodontidfc ; abundant in shallow bays. 
{CohUis viajalis Walltanni, Artedi, Pise. 1-2, 1792: Ehox fiatndus Mitcli. Trans. Lit. & 
Phil. Soc. N. Y. i, 4:19; Giinther, vi, '.i22: Uydrartjijra majaUs C. A V. xviii, 297.) 
5 : 13 . F. KwaBiapiiius (Lac.) Gthr. 
Very similar to the preceding, but the scales apparently somewhat 
smaller; greenish olive, with a silvery longitudinal band, and 12-15 
blackish vertical streaks. Head 4; depth 4;^. B. 0; D. 14; A. 12; 
Lat. 1. 43. South Carolina. ( F«k) 
{llydraryira awamjnna LacC])tde, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, :578; Giinther, vi, 323.) 
* Lacdi)i*de, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 378, 1803: type Uydruryira awampina Lac. {v6op, 
water; iipyvpog, silver.) 
