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1062. Mollienisia petenensis Giintlier. 



Lake Peten, Guatemala. 



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



Genus 321. XIPHOPHORUS Heckel. 



Xiphophonis Ileckel, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1848, i, pi. .3, 163 {helleri). 



1063. Xiphophorus helleri Heckel. 



Rivers of southern Mexico and Central America. 



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



1064. Xiphophorus guntheri Jordan & Evermann. 



Rio CUiisoy, basin of Rio Usumaciuta, Guatemala. 



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

 ica, 702, 1896, Rio Chisoy, Guatemala. 



Family XCIII. AMBLYOPSIDiE. The Blind Fishes. 



Genus 322. CHOLOGASTER Agassiz. 



Chologaster Agassiz, Am. Jour. Sci. Arts, xvi, 1853, 135 (cornutiis). 



106-5. Chologaster cornutus Agassiz. Fish of the Dismal Sivamp. 



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

 Cholorjaster cornutus Agassiz, Am. Jour. Sci. Arts 1853, 135, ditch in a rice field 

 at Waccamaw, South Carolina. 



1066. Chologaster agassizii Putnam. 



Tennessee and Kentucky. 



Chologaster agassiziiFi\tua.m, Am. Nat. 1872, 30, fig., from a well at Lebanon, 

 Tennessee. 



1067. Chologaster papilliferus Forbes. 



Cave spring. Union County, Illinois. 



Cholo(jaster papilliferus Forbes, Am. Nat., January, 1882, 1, cave spring in 

 Uuion County, southern Illinois. 



Genus 323. TYPHLICHTHYS Girard. 



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



1068. Typhlichthys subterraneus Girard. Small Blindfish. 



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

 souri, and Alabama. 



Typhlichthj/s subterraneus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 62, well 

 at Bowling Green, Kentucky. 



Genus 324. AMBLYOPSIS DeKay. 



Ambh/opsis DeKay, Now 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. 

 Ambljiopsis speUvus DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 187, 1842, Mammoth 



Cave, Kentucky. 



Order Y. SYNENTOGNATHI. The Synentognathous Fishes. 

 Family XCIV. ESOCIDiE. The Needle-Fishes. 



Genus 325. TYLOSURUS Cocco. 



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

 traini = imperialis = acus). 



1070. Tylosurus notatus (Poey). Needle-fish; Long-jaws. 



West Indies, north to Pensaoola, common aliout Key West. 

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



