314 CY'PHINODONTID.^. 



the middle, and the fifth to the end of the anal fin ; the sixth across 

 the root of the caudal. The three last bands extend nearly to the 

 back of the specimen. 

 Liberia. 



The typical specimen, li inch long, is in the Berlin Museum. In 

 spite of all the differences mentioned, it may, after all, be but the 

 young state of H. infrafasciaUis. This, however, cannot be decided, 

 unless more examples be examined. 



8. Haplochilus homalonotus. 

 Poecilia omalonota, Dumer. Arch. Mus. x. 1861, p. 257, pi. 22. fig. 7. 

 D. 11. A. 14. V. 6. 



The height of the body is contained four times in the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head thrice and a third. Head 

 and anterior part of the body low, depressed, and rather elongate, 

 with the snout somewhat produced, the lower jaw slightly projecting 

 beyond the upper. Eye rather shorter than the snout, two-sevenths 

 of the length of the head. The origin of the dorsal fin is midway 

 between the extremity of the caudal and the giU-opening, and nearly 

 opposite to the middle of the anal. Pectoral fin extending beyond 

 the root of the ventral. Uniform brownish red. (Bum.) 



Noss-Be, Madagascar. 



9. Haplochilus playfairii. 



D. 12. A. 18. V. 6. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 9. 



The height of the body is contained four times in the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head thiice and a fourth. Head 

 rather elongate, much depressed anteriorly, the snout being some- 

 what longer than the eye, which is one-fourth of the length of the 

 head, and more than one-half of the width of the interorbital space. 

 Jaws equal in length anteriorly. The origin of the dorsal fin is mid- 

 way between the extremity of the caudal and the prseoperculum, 

 corresponding to the eighteenth scale of the lateral line and to the 

 middle of the anal. Pectoral fin scarcely extending beyond the root of 

 the ventral, which reaches the anal. There does not appear to exist a 

 conspicuous diiference between the sexes as regards the fins. Brown- 

 ish, with three or four indistinct, serrated, dark, longitudinal bands. 

 Sometimes a black line across the base of the middle dorsal rays. 



Seychelles. 

 a, b, c, d, e. Many specimens, from 2 to 3g inches long. Presented 

 by Lieut.-Col. Playfair. 



y. American sj)ecies, 



10. Haplochilus pulchellus. 



? Poecilia olivacea, Storcr, Si/nopsu, p. 178. 



? Fundulus tenellus, Baird ^- Girurd, I'roc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phihul. 

 1853, p. 389. 



