194 r. s. BUREAtr or fisheries 



1507. Xiphophorus helleri brevis (Regan). 



British Honduras. 



XiphophorHs hrevis Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), XIX, 1907, 65, 

 British Honduras. 



1508. Xiphophorus montezumae Jordan and Snyder. 



Rio Panuc'o, eastern Mexico. 



Xiphophorus montezumae Jordan and Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 

 XIX, 1899 (1900), 131, fig. 11, Rio Panuco, Mexico. 



Family 117. ANABLEPID^. Four-eyed fishes 



Genus 489. ANABLEPS (Gronow) Scopeli. 



Anableps Gronow, in Scopeli, Introd. Hist. Nat., 1777, 450 (no type 

 mentioned; A. anableps L. understood). 



1509. Anableps anableps Linnajus. Cuatro ojos; Four-eyed fish. 



Trinidad to Brazil; in streams. 



Anableps anableps Linnteus, Syst. Nat., ed. 9, 1756, 55. 

 Anableps tetrophthalmus Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, VIII, 1794, 

 7, pi. 361. 



1510. Anableps dowei Gill. Cuatro ojos. 



Streams of Central America, locally common (Salvador-Chiapas, 



Guatemala). 

 Anableps dowei Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 4, La 



Union, Salvador. 



Family 118. AMBLYOPSID.ffl. Cave blindfishes 



Genus 490. CHOLOGASTER Agassiz. 



Chologaster Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, XVI, 1853, 135 (C. cornutus 



Agassiz) . 



1511. Chologaster cornutus Agassiz. Fish of the rice ditches of South Atlantic 



States. 

 Lowland swamps of the Southern States, from the Dismal Swamp to 



the Okefinokee Swamp; locally very abundant. 

 Chologaster cornutus Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, XVI, 1853, 135, 



ditch in a rice field in South Carolina. 



1512. Chologaster avitus Jordan and Jenkins. Fish of Dismal Swamp. 



Streams and swamps from southeast Virginia southward, probably 



varying into C. cornutus. 

 Chologaster avitus Jordan and Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, 



356, pi. 44, fig. 8, outlet of Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, near 



Sufi"olk, Va. 



Genus 491. FORBESELLA Jordan and Evermann. 



Forbesella Jordan and Evermann, Proc, Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th ser., XVI, 

 1927 (Apr. 27), 503 {Chologaster papilliferus Forbes). 



This genus stands between the ancient type of Chologaster well colored 

 and with developed eyes, and the colorless blind fishes of the caves 

 of the middle west. From Chologaster, Forbesella differs in the pres- 

 ence of tactile papillai as in Amblyopsis. 



1513. Forbesella papillifera (Forbes). Cavefish. 



Cave springs, Union and Pope Counties, 111. 



Chologaster papilliferus Forbes, Amer. Nat., XVI, January, 1882, 1, 

 cave spring in Union County, southern Illinois. 



1514. Forbesella agassizii (Putnam). 



Underground streams of Tennessee and Kentucky. 



Chologaster agassizii Putnam, Amer. Nat., VI, 1872, 30, PI. 2, figs. 

 4, 4a, 4b, from a well at Lebanon, Tenn. 



Genus 492. TYPHLICHTHYS Girard. 



Typhlichthys Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XI, 1859, 63 {T. 

 aubterraneus Girard). 



