Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 393 



ff. Body and tail not covered with close-set dark points. 



g. Color olivaceous or brownish, with conspicuous markings, marblings 

 or spots darker than the ground color ; belly without distinct 

 transverse lines, marked like the back and sides ; tail slightly 

 longer than rest of body. 



A. Dark markings forming narrow reticulations, never rounded spots ; 

 those reticulations dark lilac in color, covering back and 

 sides, some of them enclosing irregular polygons. 



POLYGONITT8, 647. 



hh. Dark markings in the form of rounded spots, more or less confluent, 

 sometimes obscuring the pale ground color. MORINGA, 648. 

 gg. Color dark brown, dark green, or blackish, either plain or with 

 faint markings. 



t. Belly with black, wavy, transverse lines ; no dark lines along dorsal 



fin. MOKDAX, 649. 



ti. Belly without black transverse lines ; dorsal and anal with dark 



longitudinal streaks ; body nearly plain dark olive brown. 



FUNEBHIS, 650. 



ggg. Color brownish black with irregular pale grayish spots of various 

 sizes; margin of anal not pale ; cleft of mouth less than half head. 



SANCT.E-HELEN.S:, 651. 



ec.' Body with distinct small spots, blue, white, or yellow. 



j. Dorsal and anal without distinct colored margin ; pale spots mostly smaller than 



eye. 

 k. Teeth of upper jaw uniserial. 



/. Vomeriue teeth uniserial ; spots irregular, few, and scattered ; dorsal 



colored like back. DOVII, 652. 



U. Vomerine teeth biserial ; entire body covered with small blue dots; 



dorsal with vertical bluish streaks. CONSPERSUS, 653. 



Ick. Teeth of upper jaw biserial ; body with small yellow spots. 



m. Vomerine teeth uniserial, mostly small and rounded ; color nearly 

 uniform from head to tail ; spots innumerable. MILIARIS, 654. 

 mm. Vomerine teeth biserial, small and rounded ; color dark brown, with 

 yellow points excessively numerous. ELABORATUS, 655. 



jy. Dorsal with a blackish border, interrupted with white ; anal with white mark- 

 ings ; body with close-set, irregular pale spots. OBSCTJRATUS, 656. 

 bb. Body with about 20 black, transverse rings, about three times the breadth of the 

 interspaces ; tail a little longer than rest of body. CHLEVASTES, 657. 

 PRIODONOPHIS, (irpi<av, saw ; ofiou?, tooth ; 0^15, snake): 

 aa. Teeth serrate, more or less. 



n. Color brown, with irregular light yellowish spots irregularly placed ; dorsal with large, 

 dark spots on its edge, these sometimes obsolete, usually running together to form 

 a continuous dark band ; anal black-edged ; teeth large, uniserial, the larger ones 

 serrate ; mouth nearly closing. OCBLLATUS, 658. 



Subgenus LYCODONTIS. 

 644. LYCODONTIS VERRILLI (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Teeth all entire. Color nearly plain brown, finely freckled; teeth nni- 

 serial, about 13 on side of lower jaw ; vomerine teeth small, in a short 

 row posteriorly ; eye near angle of mouth, 3 in snout; head 3i in trunk; 

 tail about equal to head and trunk ; color light chestnut brown, finely 

 freckled, but without distinct spots ; dorsal with a conspicuous edge of 

 blackish, the margin narrowly white; anal edged with white. Panama; 

 one specimen known, in the museum of Yale University. (Named for 

 Prof. Addison E. Verrill, of Yale University, a well-known naturalist.) 



