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1062. Mollienisia petenensis Giintber. 



Lake Peten, Guatemala. 



MolUenesia petenensis Giinther, Cat., vi, 348, 1866, Lake Peten, Guatemala. 



Genus 321. XIPHOPHORUS Heckel. 



Xijjhophonts TIeckel, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1848, i, pi. 3, 163 (helleri). 



1063. Xiphophorus lielleri Heckel. 



Rivers of southern Mexico and Central America. 



Xiphophorus helleri Heckel, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien i, 1848, 163, Rio Chisoy. 



1064. Xiphophorus guntheri Jordan &, Evermaun. 



Rio Chisoy, basin of Rio Usumacinta, Guatemala. 



Xijjhophorns guntheri Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle Amer- 

 ica, 702, 1896, Rio Chisoy, Guatemala. 



Family XCIIL AMBLYOPSIDiE. The Blind Pishes. 



Genus 322. CHOLOGASTER Agassiz. 



Cholof/asier Agassiz, Am. Jour. Sci. Arts, xvi, 1853, 13.5 (cornutiis). 



1065. Chologaster cornutus Agassiz. Fish of the Dismal Swamp. 



Southern States; from the Dismal Swamp to the Okefinokee Swamp. 

 Chologaster cornutus Agassiz, Am. Jour. Sci. Arts 1853, 135, ditch in a rice held 

 at Waccamaw, South Carolina. 



1066. Chologaster agassizii Putnam. 



Tennessee and Kentucky. 



Chologaster agassizii Putnam, Am. Nat. 1872, 30, fig., from a well at Lebanon, 

 Tennessee. 



1067. Chologaster papilliferus Forbes. 



Cave spring, Union County, Illinois. 



Chologaster papilliferus Forbes, Am. Nat., January, 1882, 1, cave spring in 

 Union County, southern Illinois. 



Genus 323. TYPHLICHTHYS Girard. 



Typhlichthys Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 62 (suhterraiieus). 



1068. Typhlichthys subterraneus Girard, Small Blindfish. 



Subterranean streams in limestone regions of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis- 

 souri, and Alabama. 



Typhlichthys subterraneus Girard, Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci, Phila. 1859, 62, well 

 at Bowling Green, Kentucky. 



Genus 324. AMBLYOPSIS DeKay. 



Amblyopsis DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 187, 1842 (sj^elwus). 



1069. Amblyopsis spelaeus DeKay. Mammoth Care Blindfish. 



Subterranean streams of the limestone regions of Kentucky and Indiana; 



River Styx, Mammoth Cave. 

 Amblyopsis spelwus DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 187, 1842, Mammoth 



Cave, Kentucky. 



Order Y. SYNENTOGNATHI. The Synentognathous Fishes. 

 Family XCIV. ESOCID.a;. The Needle-Fishes. 



Genus 326. TYLGSXTRUS Cocco. 



Tylosurus Cocco, " Lettere in Giornale Sci. Sicilia, xvii,'' 18, 1829 {can- 

 traini^^i imperialis = acus). 



1070. Tylosurus notatus (Poey). Xeedle-fish; Long-Jaws. 



West Indies, north to Pensacola, common about Key West. 

 Belone notata Poey, Memorias, ii, 293, 1860, Havana! 



