658 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



9f4. FUNDULUS GUTTATUS (Agassiz). 



Head 3f ; depth nearly 5; eye large, 3 in head. D. 6 or 7; A. 8 or 9; 

 scales 36-12. Body elongate, moderately stout, compressed posteriorly ; 

 back slightly elevated; caudal peduncle moderate. Head moderate, 

 flat above, broad between the eyes; mouth moderate; jaws armed with 

 an outer series of rather long and slender teeth, behind which is a band 

 of smaller teeth. Scales moderate. Dorsal fin short and small, its height 

 2 in head, its insertion opposite that of the anal in the female, but a 

 little more posterior in the male; anal short, rather high, \\ in head; 

 ventrals just reaching vent, nearly 2 in head; pectorals \\ in head. 

 General color in life orange brown ; each scale with a black edge, these 

 forming distinct longitudinal stripes; upper surface of head dark; jaws, 

 opercles, and area in front of eyes bright orange ; suborbital region jet 

 black; area above opercle extending across back orange, suffused with 

 dusky ; under parts orange ; all the fins dusky. In the females the spots 

 on the scales are more suffused. Swamps and streams, Florida to Texas; 

 not rare; here described from Bollman's types of Zygonectes escamUce. 

 (gultatus, spotted.) 



Zygonectes gultatus, AGASSIZ, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 1854, 353, Mobile, Alabama; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 341, 1883. 

 Zygonectes escambise, BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 463, Escambia River, Flomaton, 



Alabama; (Type, No. 37995. Coll. Bollman); EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1891 



(1892), 87. 



965. FUNDULUS HIEROGLYPHICUS (Agassiz). 



This species is thus described: "Anterior and upper parts of the body 

 sprinkled with dark dots, passing into longitudinal rows backward. 

 Light olive above ; silvery on the sides and below." (Agassiz.) Mobile, 

 Alabama. It has not been recognized by subsequent collectors, but may 

 be distinct, (hieroglyphicus, bearing marks like hawk tracks; Jep&f, 

 hawk; yAtxpw, cut out.) 



Zygonectes hieroglyphicw, AGASSIZ, Amer. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 1854, 353, Mobile, Alabama; JOR- 

 DAN & GILBERT, -Synopsis, 341, 1883. 



966. FCNDTJLTJS DISPAE (Agassiz). 



Head 3|; depth 3. D. 7; A. 9; scales 35-10. Body short and deep, 

 much compressed. Head short and very broad, the flat interorbit?! space 

 being of its length, and barely twice the diameter of the eye ; the dis- 

 tance between the eyes above greater than the distance between them 

 below. Snout broadly rounded. Fins moderate; dorsal much smaller 

 than anal. Outer series of teeth somewhat enlarged. Coloration pale 

 olive, bluish in life; a very distinct brownish line along the edges of 

 each row of scales, appearing wavy or serrated as it follows the scales; 

 about 10 of these longitudinal stripes are present ; males with the lines 

 interrupted, appearing as series of dots, and further marked by about 9 

 dark crossbars; adults with a black blotch below the eye, sometimes 

 confluent with it. Oviduct free from anal. Length 2 inches. Lakes 

 and sluggish streams from northern Ohio to Missouri, and south to Missis- 

 sippi ; locally abundant ; recorded from the Maumee, Wabash, Illinois, 



