Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 655 



defined, their width being equal to the interspaces and slightly increas- 

 ing toward the tail; these bars begin and end abruptly, not reaching 

 the median line above or below by about half the width of the eye; 

 opercles, cheeks, and chin thickly covered with dark spots, largest on 

 the cheeks and opercles, and least numerous on the cheeks; upper parts, 

 in life, of a dark-green color, which fades into reddish yellow on sides 

 and abdomen ; inferior fins pale yellowish ; the vertical bars rich 

 black, with a bluish reflection ; dorsal with a pale tip and a dark base 

 anteriorly; on dorsal behind a jet-black rounded ocellate spot about 

 width of eye and involving rather more than half width of fin, margined 

 anteriorly and inferiorly by a pure white spot. Atlantic Coast from 

 Long Island to Virginia ; rare ; a pretty little fish only lately rediscovered 

 by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, from whose account the above description is com- 

 piled. (Named for Miss Lucy Baird, daughter of Professor Baird.) 

 Hijdrargyra Incise, BAIRD, Ninth Smithsou. Kep., 1854 (1855), 344, Beasley's Point, New Jer- 

 sey. (Coll. Prof. Baird.) 

 Haplochilus lucite, GUNTHER, Cat., vi, 316, 1866. 

 '/.ijijonedes cingulatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 342, 1883. 



Zt/ganectes luciie, HUGH M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., x, 1890 (1892), 68, pi. 18, fig. 3; 

 (description and figure from specimens taken in the Potomac). 



961. FUNDULUS CHRYSOTUS, Holbrook. 



Head 3 ; depth 3f . D. 9 ; A. 11 ; scales 32 or 33-12. Body short and robust; 

 caudal peduncle high and compressed, its least height If in head; head 

 short, wide, and flat, the interorbital width i its length. Teeth in jaws 

 in a narrow band, the outer series much enlarged, those in the lower jaw 

 larger and more numerous than those of the upper. Snout very short 

 and blunt, the jaws nearly equal in closed mouth; length of snout 

 nearly f diameter of orbit, which is contained li times in interorbital 

 width, and 3i times in head. Origin of dorsal midway between tip of 

 caudal and posterior rim of orbit, its distance from base of caudal - dis- 

 tance from front of orbit ; base of dorsal 2 in head, its height 1 in head, 

 and its origin opposite the nineteenth scale of lateral line and the third ray 

 of the anal fin ; base of anal fin rather less than half length of head,- its 

 greatest height somewhat more than half; dorsal and anal not nearly 

 reaching caudal when depressed ; caudal broadly rounded ; pectorals 

 reaching ventrals, If in head; ventrals short, not nearly reaching vent, 

 2 in head. Color in spirits : light olive brown, top of head and a narrow 

 median streak in front of dorsal fin darker; middle of sides, especially 

 behind, with rather indistinct pearl-colored dots ; middle of sides of 

 trunk and tail with about 14 not clearly defined, narrow half-bars; an 

 elongate dark area above base of pectorals; vertical fins with small, 

 black specks, less numerous on caudal fin; other fins plain. Length 2 

 inches. This description from a specimen from Black River, South Caro- 

 lina ; others from New Orleans agree closely. In specimens from Peace 

 River, Florida, Woolman counts 35 to 38 scales, and these may be identi- 

 cal with F. scartes. Coastwise swamps, South Carolina to Florida ; rather 

 common; known from F. cingulatus by the longer anal fin. 

 gilded.) 



