49. CYPRlNODONTIDiE LUCANIA. 343 



559. L.. vcEiBista Gid. 



Body obloug-, much as in Zygoneetes. Dorsal midway ot body, mod- 

 erately elevatetl, much in front of anal. Snout rather pointed. Brown- 

 ish, slightly spotted. Head 3J; depth 3^. D. 13 j A. 11; Lat. 1. 27. 

 L. IJ inches. Indiauola, Tex. (Girard.) 



{Limia vcnusta Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 71, 1859; Girard, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1859, 118; Giiuther, vi, 310: Lucania affinis QiTavd, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Pliila. 185D, 118.) 



560. L. parva (B. & G.) Beau* 



Form elongated. Head less than one-fourth the length (with the 

 caudal). Eye 3 in head. Coloration plain. D. 10; A. 10; Y. C; L. 

 trans V. 8. Very small. Long Island. {Giinther.) 



{Cyprinodon jra>T«8 B. & G. Niuth Smithsonian Report, 1855, 345: Cyprinodon par- 

 vus Giiutlier, vi, 307.) 



561. li. goodei Jordan. 



Body elliptical, rather elongate, the back considerably elevated to a 

 point just in front of the origin of the dorsal fin ; the caudal peduncle 

 rather deep and compressed. Head short, comparatively narrow, and 

 bluntly pointed. Mouth small, terminal; both jaws with rather large 

 conical canine-like teeth, api)arently in a single series. Eye large, near 

 the middle of the side of the head, its diameter contained 2^ to 2f times 

 in the length of the head, about equal to the width of the interorbital 

 space. Scales large, their exposed surfaces higher than long, in about 

 30 (29 to 32) longitudinal and 7 vertical series; humeral scale like the 

 others. Fins large, especially in the males ; origin of dorsal about mid- 

 way between snout and base of caudal, conspicuously in advance of 

 anal; height of dorsal fin in the males two-thirds the length of the head, 

 about equal to the length of the base of the fin ; anal fin similar and 

 nearly as high and long, beginning nearly under the middle of the 

 dorsal; caudal moderate, subtruncate; ventrals long, in the males 



each with 20 or more rays, nearly opposite each other; anal fin not modified in the 

 male. Intestinal canal short. Mexico. (Glrardinus; z'^Oi;?, fish.) 



G. innominalus Blocker. 



Head thick, the snout obtuse, the mandible being dii-ected vertically upward; neck 

 arched so that the upper profile of the head is concave. Eye 5 in head, ^ the width 

 of interorbital space. Olivaceous, Avith brown cross-bands, which aie sometimes 

 confiuent. Head 4; depth 3^. D. 20; A. 22; Lat. 1. 44. Vicinity of city of Mexico. 

 {Giintlur.) 



{Lucania sp. Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 114; Bleeker, Cyprin. 484: 

 Liimiurtjufi varicgalus Guuther, vi, 309.) 



*Dr. Bean informs us that this sijccies, the types of which ho has examined, is a 

 Lncania. 



