110 THE CYPRINODONTS. 



tween head and caudal. One of the bands below anterior half of dorsal, 

 another on the caudal pedicel. On sides and head tinted with green mixed 

 with silver ; belly yellowish ; upper cheek bronze, lower silvery ; operculum 

 silvery. 



Length about three inches. 



Guanajuato, Mex. ("Bean.) 



Fundulus LucisB. 



Bydrarrjyra lucia Bd., 1855, Ninth R. S. lust., 3i4, est. p. 30 ; Blk., 1860, Cjpr., 486; Gill, 1861, 

 N. A. Fish, 52 ; Bean, 1889, B. U. S. F. Com., VII, 129. 

 Haplochilus lucia Gthr., 1866, Cat., VI, 316. 



Zygonecles lucia Jor., 1887, R. U. S. F. Com., 837 ; Smith, 1892, B. U S. F, Com., X, 67, pi. 18, fig. 3. 

 Fundulas lucia Bean, 1880, B. U. S. F. Com., VII, 130, 132, 110. 



" General form elongated, though of rather short appearance. Head con- 

 stituting less than one fourth of the total length. Insertion of anal slightly 

 in advance of origin of dorsal, and ratlier more developed than the latter. 

 Ventrals very small ; their extremity reaching the anus. Tail large. D. 8 ; 

 A. 9 ; V. 6 ; P. 15 ; C. 6, 1, 8, 7, 1, 5. 



" Dark olive green above, lower part of sides and beneath rich ochre 

 yellow. Sides with 10 or 12 broad, well defined, vertically disposed dark 

 bars, nearly as large as their interspaces, which are of a faint tint of green- 

 ish white. All the fins but the dorsal are of a uniform yellowish, lighter 

 than the abdomen. Dorsal, yellow on the terminal half, the basal portions 

 olivaceous, with a large black spot posteriorly, and immediately anterior to it 

 a white one. The dark spot is bordered above and behind by the yellow part 

 mentioned. In one specimen the posterior half of the base of the dorsal 

 fm is dull white, with a large subcircular spot of black in the centre. Length 

 about one inch. P. similar, the dorsal unspotted, the yellow less intense. A 

 few specimens only were taken, in a small ditch at Robinson's landing, Peck's 

 beach, opposite Beesley's point." (Baird.) 



We are indebted to Smith for additional particulars. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; LI. 

 34-35; Ltr. 10-11. Head two sevenths of length to base of caudal; eye 

 two thirds of snout and two thirds to three fourths of interorbital space. 



It will readily be seen that this form might bo derived from the ornate 

 types of Fundulus hdcrocHtus, The only difference to be noted lies in the 

 short dorsal. Examination of a large number of individuals of this species of 

 Fundulus discovers none on which the dorsal has less than ten rays. The 

 lack of a couple of the anterior in a young specimen is all that is needed to 



