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reach the ventrals, and the ventrals to or nearly to vent; both fins 

 much shorter in females. Males blackish brown, the sides plumbeous, 

 the rows of scales with interrupted whitish streaks, most conspicuous 

 on hinder half of body; a black streak along middle line of back; ver- 

 tical fins dusky, the caudal becoming translucent on distal half, its mar- 

 gin abruptly and narrowly black-edged. Females olivaceous, dusky on 

 back, silvery below, the back and sides with narrow black lines follow- 

 ing the rows of scales ; fins translucent, the dorsal sometimes with fine 

 black specks at base, the caudal black-edged. Length 3^ inches. Ten- 

 nessee Basin in Alabama; not rare, (albus, white ; lineatus, lined.) 

 Fnndulus albollneatm, GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Comrn., ix, 1889 (1891), pi. 43, fig. 1, 149, Spring 

 Creek, Huntsville, Alabama. (Coll. Kirsch.) 



948. FUNDTJLUS CONFLUENTUS, Goode & Bean. 



Head 3; depth 3; eye 4 in head. D. 10; A. 10; V. 6; B. probably 5; 

 scales 45. Head low, flat. Snout not produced, as long as eye. Interor- 

 bital space 2 in length of head. Origin of dorsal midway between tip 

 of caudal and middle of eye ; first ray of anal under second ray of dor 

 sal ; anal higher than long. Scales crowded. Yellowish gray, with a 

 longitudinal streak along each row of scales and about 14 distinct irreg- 

 ular vertical dark bands. Appearance of F. majalis. Eastern Florida. 

 One specimen known. (Goode & Bean.) (confluentiis, flowing together.) 

 Fundulus confluenlus, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 118, Lake Monroe, Florida; 

 (Type, No. 18065. Coll. Professor Baird); JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 334, 1883. 



949. FUNDTJLUS FUNDULOIDES (Evermann). 



HeadSJ; depth 41; eye 3J. D. 9 or 10; A. 9; scales 35-11, 24 before 

 the dorsal. Body moderately robust, width at pectorals a little greater 

 than greatest depth of head; snout rather blunt, equal to eye; inter- 

 orbital width If times diameter of eye ; caudal peduncle deep and com- 

 pressed ; mouth not large nor greatly oblique ; teeth pointed, the outer 

 series being somewhat enlarged ; peritoneum pale. General color in spirits, 

 dark olivaceous; sides with 10 to 14 dark vertical bars, which are usually 

 2 to 3 times as wide as the intervening silvery ones ; in one specimen the bars 

 extending from the dorsal to the anal are about equal in width to the sil- 

 very interspaces; whole body, including all the fins, profusely dusted over 

 with minute brownish spots, which are very numerous on back and top of 

 head ; a narrow, dark line extending from nape to origin of dorsal. Dor- 

 sal fin small, slightly in front of anal, its origin midway between posterior 

 edge of opercle and base of caudal fin, the longest rays about equal to 

 base of fin, or half length of head. Length 1 inches. Coast of Texas ; 

 two specimens known. (Fundulus] tZdof, likeness.) 



Zijganectes funduloides, EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xi, 1891 (May 25, 1892), 85, pi. 35, fig. 

 3, Dickinson Bayou, Dickinson, Texas, on Galveston Bay. (Type, No. 45563. 

 Coll. Evermann, Scovell & Gurley.) 



Subgenus ZYGONECTES, Agassiz. 

 950. FUNDULUS DOVII (Gunther). 



Head 3|; depth 5; D. 8; A. 14; V. 6; scales 31-8. Head elongate, low^ 

 depressed, the snout much produced, the upper jaw somewhat longer 



