638 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



928. FUNDULUS PALLIDUS, Evermann. 



Head 31; depth 4 ; eye 3|. D. 12; A. 11 ; scales 31-11, about 16 before 

 dorsal. Body stout ; head heavy ; caudal peduncle long and much com- 

 pressed ; snout short and blunt, shorter than eye, which is the width 

 of the interorbital space ; humeral scale not enlarged, 2 rows of scales on 

 the cheek; mouth rather small, little oblique, teeth pointed, in more 

 than 1 series, the outer enlarged. Dorsal fin over the anal, its origin 

 midway between base of caudal and posterior edge of opercle, or midway 

 of total length, its rays short, about If in head ; anal rays about equal in 

 length to those of dorsal. Scales medium, not firmly attached. Color 

 pale yellowish; sides with about 13 narrow, dark, vertical bars, much 

 narrower than the pale interspaces, not extending on the back or belly; 

 scales sparsely covered with fine dark punctulations, few on the vertical 

 fins and head; a large oblong black spot on the back immediately in 

 front of dorsal fin. Allied to Fundulus similis, Baird & Girard, the head 

 less pointed, the snout very much shorter, it being shorter than the eye, 

 while in Fundulus similis it is 1| times the eye; the dorsal has 1 more 

 ray and the anal 2 or 3 more ; the color paler, the bars less distinct, no 

 dark dorsal line as in the other, while the pronounced black spot in front 

 of the dorsal is not found on Fundulus similis. Galveston Bay, near Swan 

 Lake, Texas; one specimen known, (palcidus, pale.) 

 Fundulus pallidus, EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xi, 1891 (May 25, 1892), 84, pi. 35, fig. 2 



Galveston Bay, near Swan Lake, Galveston, Texas. (Type, No. 45564. Coll. 



Evermann, Scovell & Gurley.) 



929. FUNDULUS SIMILIS (Baird & Girard). 



(SAC-A-LAIT.) 



Head 3 in length; depth 3| to 4j? ; eye 5 to 5|. D. 11 to 13; A. 10; 

 scales 33-11. Body slender, the outlines scarcely arched; adults much 

 deeper than young ; head narrow, very long, and regularly narrowed for- 

 ward; preorbital as wide as eye, 44 to 5 in head; eye small, 11 to If in 

 interorbital ; mouth small, maxillary not nearly reaching vertical from 

 anterior nostril; teeth very small, in broad villiform bands, the outer 

 series not at all enlarged; interorbital width 31 in head. Dorsal long 

 and low, the height less than length of base in adult males, 11 in length 

 of base in females ; in males the last rays are but little higher than some 

 of those preceding, in females the last are the lowest ; longest ray (in $ ) 

 23- in head; origin of dorsal midway between middle of eye and tip of 

 caudal; origin of anal under third dorsal ray, the fin much higher than 

 dorsal, the longest ray 11 in head ; posterior margins of oviduct adnate 

 along either side of third anal ray, covering i length of first ray. Pec- 

 torals reaching origin of ventrals, If to If length of head ; ventrals not 

 reaching vent, 21 in head, their base midway between pectorals and 

 origin of anal ; caudal subtruncate, If in head. Scales large, in regular 

 series. Color: $ , olivaceous, bronze below; lower parts of head strongly 

 orange ; sides with 10 to 15 narrow, dark bars, 1 to f as wide as the inter- 

 spaces, and not very dark; a large, diffuse, dark humeral blotch, extend- 

 ing from above opercle to about base of pectoral ; each scale with a dis- 

 tinct ^> -shaped intermarginal series of dots, forming conspicuous reticu- 

 lations; dorsal dusky, with black specks, mostly black at base; a small 



