656 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Fundulus chrysotm, HOLBROOK, MS., I860. 



Haplocliilus chrysotus, GUNTHER, Cat., vi, 317, 1866, Charleston, South Carolina. 



Zygonectes chrysolus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 342, 1883; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1884, 319. 

 Zygonectes cingulatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 586; not of CUVIER & 



VALENCIENNES. 



962. FUNDULUS CINGULATUS, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Head 3i; depth 3f ; eyes moderate, 3^ in bead. D. 7; A. 8; scales 

 34-10. Body rather short and deep, compressed posteriorly ; back ele- 

 vated; caudal peduncle deep. Head not large, flat, broad between the eyes ; 

 mouth moderate ; outer row of teeth long and slender, behind which is a 

 band of smaller teeth ; large teeth nearly equal in each jaw. Scales 

 large. Dorsal fin short, its rays moderate, 2in head ; anal larger than the 

 dorsal, its rays long, 2 in head ; ventrals short, 2 in head ; pectorals If in 

 head. General color olivaceous; scales edged with dusky, forming a few 

 faint longitudinal stripe.3 ; about 15 faint dark vertical bars, interspaced 

 with light orange, which is more plain posteriorly; almost everywhere 

 numerous, small, black points; belly orange; fins all blood red, fading to 

 dusky in alcohol. South Carolina to Florida, in coastwise swamps ; not 

 rare ; here described from the specimens taken by Bollman in Escambia 

 River at Flomaton, Alabama, (cingulatus, belted.) 

 Fundulus cingulatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xvm, 197, 1846; (D. 8; A. 10); 



"United States." 



Zygonectes cingulatus, JORDAN,* Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 527, redescription of type; BOLLMAN, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 463. 



963. FUNDULUS NOTTIIf (Agassis). 

 (STAR-HEADED MINNOW.) 



Head 3f; depth 4|; eye large, 2 in head. D. 7 or 8; A. 9 or 10; 

 scales 36-10. Form of body much like that of Fundulus dispar, compressed 

 behind. Head broad and somewhat concave above, narrow below ; inter- 

 orbital space fully i the length of head, 1 the diameter of eye; snout 

 obtuse, shorter than eye; outer row of teeth, above and below, enlarged 

 and recurved. Pectoral fin f the length of the head ; ventrals slightly 

 shorter, attaining the vent ; dorsal and anal low, little higher than -J the 

 length of the head ; first ray of dorsal situated slightly behind the first 

 anal ray, and over about the seventeenth scale in the longitudinal series ; 

 distance from the snout to the first dorsal ray passing beyond the tips 

 of the caudal rays ; distance from the first dorsal ray to the base of 

 the caudal reaching forward to the insertion of the pectoral. Belly 

 and ground color on lower half of body silvery ; sides with 6 narrow 



* Fundulus cingulatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES. In the original type, head broad and flat; 

 eye large, 3 in head. Distance from front of dorsal to caudal half the distance to front of eye. 

 Teeth rather strong. Caudal long. D. 7; A. 8. Scales about 33-10, but as some are lost, this 

 count is uncertain. Head 3% in length; depth 4%. Body crossed by (about 16) narrow cross 

 bands, which are quite distinct, and narrower than the interspaces. Region below eye silvery, 

 not dark. 



t The following is the scanty original description of this species: 



Zygonectes nottii, AGASSI z: "The darker continuous longitudinal lines alternate with fainter 

 interrupted ones. Males with distinct transverse bands; dark olive above, fading upon the sides; 

 silvery below. Operculum, throat, and space in advance of the eye orange color. Collected by 

 Dr. Nott at Mobile, Alabama." 



