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tinal canal rather long; three times lengtli of body. Sexes similar. 

 (Dedicated to David S. Jordan.) 



534. J. floridsB Goodo & Beau. 



Body ovate, short and deep, with elevated back, deep candal pe- 

 duncle, and steep i)roflle. Head moderate, flat and broad between the 

 eyes, its profile less steep than that of the back. Eyes large, 3^-4 in 

 head. Mouth small, anterior, the lower jaw projecting. Scales mod- 

 erate, the humeral scale not much eidarged. Dorsal fin inserted mid- 

 way between snout and base of caudal, its first ray robust and spine- 

 like, grooved behind, longer than the diameter of the eye, and about 

 as high as the succeeding soft rays. Fins all rather low, the ventrals 

 reaching just past the vent. Scales with strong concentric striae. 

 Color olivaceous; sides orange or brassy, with a broad steely-blue 

 stripe along each series of scales; 4 or 5 vague, difluse, black ver- 

 tical bars, most distinct in the young, nearly obsolete in the adult ; a 

 large, diliuse, dusky blotch on the sides, below the dorsal spine; fins 

 mostly dark, the dorsal barred or speckled in the males, nearly plain 

 in the females, sometimes a dusky blotch on its last rays; body and 

 tins everywhere finely punctulate with black ; a dark bar below eye. 

 Head 3i; depth 2-2 1. D. I, 16, or 1, 17; A. 1, 11, to 1, 13; Lat. 1. 25-27; 

 L. trausv. 11 or 12. L. 1^ inches. Streams of Central and Eastern 

 Florida; abundant. The above description from specimens taken by 

 Dr. J. A. Henshall in San Sebastian Kiver. The original types were 

 from Lake Monroe. Herbivorous, at least in part. 

 ' (Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 117, 1879.) 



'S5y,— CYPRIi\ODOi\ Lac^pMe. 



(Lehias Cuvier.) 



(Lac^pfede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 486, 1803: type Cijprinodon variegatns Lac.) 



Bodj- very short and stout, the back somewhat elevated. , Mouth 

 small. Snont short. Teeth moderate, incisor-like, tricuspid, in a sin- 

 gle series. Scales very large; humeral scales usually enlarged. Dor- 

 sal fin moderate, inserted in advance of front of anal ; its first ray not 

 enlarged; anal smaller; ventral fins small. Intestinal canal little 

 longer than body. Gill-membranes consideraljly united, free from the 

 isthmus. Chubby little fishes, inhabiting the brackish waters cf 

 America, Southern Europe, and ISTorthern Africa; sometimes living in 

 hot salt springs, (xyx/sr^o?, carp; otJwv, tooth.) 



