642 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



The following are the life colors of this form, taken from specimens 

 from Pensacola : Males very dark green above, paler posteriorly ; sides 

 with many small, round, pearly white spots, some of them often in verti- 

 cal series ; posteriorly traces of 8 to 10 narrow, pale crossbars alternat- 

 ing with broader, faint dusky ones; belly yellowish ; sides of head 

 dusky ; caudal greenish, dusky behind, its basal part with numerous 

 small white spots ; dorsal olive, anteriorly orange, with many small white 

 spots ; the white spots larger and less numerous than in the typical hetero- 

 clitus ; anal and ventrals orange, speckled with white ; pectorals light 

 yellow. Female olive and silvery, with minute speckles below ; sides 

 usually with traces of 12 to 15 narrow, silvery vertical bars, not half so 

 wide as the dusky interspaces ; no white spots on body or fins ; fins 

 mostly dusky olive, nearly plain. Length 6 inches, (grandis, great.) 

 Fundvlus grandis, BAIBD & GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 389, Indianola, Texas ; 



GIRARD, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Ichth., 69, pi. 36, 1859. (Coll. Jno. H. Clark.) 

 Fundulus floridensis, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 157, Charlotte Bay, Florida. 

 Fundulus heteroditus grandis, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. MUB., 1882, 230. 



983. FUNDULUS OCELLARIS, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3 to 3fc; depth 4 ; eye 4. D. 11 ; A. 10 ; V. 6 ; P. 13. Scales 35-15. 

 Female with a large black ocellus on the dorsal fin. Head comparatively 

 small and narrow, with short, depressed snout, and weak jaws; body 

 rather slender ; lower jaw little longer than upper ; eye small, If in 

 interorbital width, equaling snout, which equals length of mandible ; 

 teeth all villiform, in narrow bands in each jaw, the outer series but lit- 

 tle enlarged ; preorbital narrow, less than half diameter of orbit. Dorsal 

 fin (in $ 3 inches long) much elevated, reaching, when depressed, beyond 

 base of rudimentary rays of caudal ; much shorter than this in females 

 and young males. Origin of dorsal midway between tip of caudal and 

 tip of snout, or slightly nearer snout ; the base of the fin \\ in height of 

 longest ray, which is contained 1 in head ; outline of fin rhomboid, the 

 upper edge straight, the last rays highest; anal fin similar to dorsal, 

 but narrower and slightly lower, not reaching caudal when depressed; 

 its origin under second ray of dorsal and distant from caudal half as far 

 as from tip of snout ; base half height of longest ray ; greatest height of 

 caudal peduncle f its length and half length of head ; oviduct not attached 

 to first anal ray, but forming a low sheath along base of first six rays; 

 caudal short, rounded, li in head ; pectorals slender, reaching base of 

 ventrals. If in head ; ventrals (in adult $ ) extending beyond front of 

 anal, half length of head. Scales moderate, in somewhat irregular 

 oblique series, a few imperfect pores in lateral line ; humeral scale not 

 enlarged ; 18 scales before dorsal. Female with somewhat deeper body, 

 and different coloration ; the fins smaller, the last ray of dorsal shorter 

 than those preceding, and not reaching halfway from its base to rudi- 

 mentary caudal rays ; length of longest ray greater than base of fin ; 

 ventrals not nearly reaching vent ; front of dorsal nearer tip of caudal 

 than end of snout. Color $ , dark olive brown above, golden 011 sides 

 and below ; scales margined with darker; sides with 13 to 15 dark cross 

 bands of the color of the back, not extending on the belly, but almost 



