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them more or less dotted with deep orange, so arranged in the dorsal as to appear like a lon- 

 gitudinal band at its base. Base of caudal spotted with similar dots ; its centre ash-colored ; 

 a black transverse band at its posterior extremity, margined with yellow. A bluish tint upon 

 the body at the base of the pectorals, and upon the sides below the dorsal. 



D. (?). P. (?). v!(>). A. (?). C. (?). Length, 4i inches. 



Florence, Alabama, Storer. 



GENUS IX. LEBIAS, Cuv. 

 Resemble Pcecilia, with the exception that their teeth are denticulated. 



1. Lebias ellipsoides, Lesueur. 



Deep brown. Greatest thickness of body is between the opercula, very compressed 

 towards the tail. Eyes large. Scales large. Dorsal high, rounded ; anal small and round ; 

 caudal unequal, enlarged and elongated posteriorly, and obliquely truncated. The young 

 pale, generally with white belly, and silvery gill-covers. A few faint traces of longitudinal 

 lines, and brownish mottles or marks, not quite amounting to bands or zones, distincuish- 

 ing the sides perpendicularly. 



D. II. P. (?). V. G. A. 10. C. 20. Length, 2 inches. 



Connecticut, Ayres. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. Florida, Lesueur. 



ivious Sheeps-head, Killifiah, MrreaiLt,, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 111. pi. ; 

 Lebias ellipsoides, Lesueur, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sc., n. p. 6, pi. 2, figs. 1 and 2. 

 Cyprinodon ovinia, Yaj , Humboldt et Boxpland, n. p. 164. 

 Lebias ellipsoides, Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 2G4. 



iasovinus, Sheeps-head Lebias, Dekay's Report, p. 215. pi. 27, fij.sM; youn». 

 Lebias ellipsoides, Lesueur, Dekay's Report, p. 216. 



" " Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 26S. 



GENUS X. FUNDULUS, Lacep. 



Have many relations with Pcecilia ; but their teeth arc small and crowded, 

 and those of the anterior range are bent ; they have some conical teeth rather 

 strong at the pharynx ; there are but four rays to the gills. 



1. Fundulus iuscus, Ayres. 

 Body rather rounded, somewhat compressed towards the tail. Above and on the sides very 

 dark brown, striped longitudinally with narrow lines, which are lighter. Abdomen white. 

 A transverse black band at the base of the caudal fin. 



D. 15. P. 14. V. 6. A. 9. C. 13. Length, 2 to 3 inches. 

 Connecticut River, Ayres. 



Fundulus fuscus, Ai ss, Bost. Joum. Nat. Hi9t., vt 



