648 'Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Subgenus XENISMA, Jordan. 



943. FUNDULTJS CATENATUS (Storer). 



(STUDFISH.) 



Head 4; depth 4| to 5. B. 5; D. 14; A. 15; scales 50. Similar in 

 form to Fundulus stellifer, but larger, with lower fins and different color- 

 ation ; dorsal and anal fins even in the males, falling short of the caudal; 

 dorsal inserted above anal ; anal prickly in spring males. Teeth in 

 broad bands, the outer somewhat enlarged. Color bluish or greenish , with 

 a round orange spot (in the male) on each scale, thus forming series of 

 regular lines of dots ; females with smaller brown spots on the scales, 

 also forming lines. Length 6 or 7 inches. Tennessee and Cumberland 

 rivers, and in clear streams of the Ozark Mountains ; locally abundant; 

 one of the largest and handsomest of the Cyprinodonts. (catenatus, 

 chained.) 



Pcecilia catenaia, STORER, Synopsis Fish. N. A., 430 (178 of repriiit), 1846, Tennessee River, 



Florence, Alabama; GUNTHER, Cat., vi, 322, 1866. 

 Fundnlus catenates, COPE, Jouru. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1868, 238; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 



337, 1883. 

 Xenisma catenaia, JORDAN, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1876, 322. 



944. FUNDULTJS STELLIFER (Jordan). 

 (STUDFISH.) 



Head 3f ; depth 5 ; eye 4. B. 4; D. 13; A. 13; V. 6; scales 53. Body rather 

 long, somewhat compressed. Head broad and flattened above. Scales 

 closely imbricated, deeper than long. Dorsal fin beginning slightly behind 

 anal, its last rays in the adult males highly elevated, reaching the base of 

 caudal, their height equal to the depth of the body ; anal similar, more 

 elevated in front and less so behind, the last rays falling just short of 

 caudal ; fins lower in females and young ; pectorals reaching ventrals, the 

 latter to anal in the males. Oviduct not extending on first anal ray. 

 Teeth in a narrow band, the outer somewhat enlarged, blunt and curved. 

 Coloration brilliant; livid blue above, somewhat silvery below; body 

 and cheeks with large, bright, dark orange spots, irregularly placed, not 

 following the rows of scales, and not always in the middle of the scales; 

 these spots not uniform in size; females with olive brown spots hori- 

 zontally, oblong and smaller than the orange spots of the males and 

 more regularly placed ; a blue loral blotch, with a green one below it ; a 

 pale yellow blotch on the back in front of the dorsal, very conspicuous 

 when the fish is in the water. Length 4 inches. Alabama River and 

 tributaries, in clear streams and springs ; a most beautiful fish, (stella, 

 star ; /ero, I bear. ) 

 Xenisma slellifera, JORDAN, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1876, 322, Etowah and Oostanaula 



rivers, Rome, Georgia. (Coll. Jordan.) 

 Fundulus stellifer, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 337, 1883. 



