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profile not very steep; fins rather low, the dorsal and anal not nearly 

 reaching caudal; humeral scale not larger than the others; scales very 

 thick and firm, those on lower parts of body less reduced in size than 

 usual. Pectorals reaching middle of ventrals, which reach vent. Male in 

 life light olive; sides silvery, with 6 narrow, faint bars of coppery; sides 

 with a number of spots of bright clear yellow, besides the blotches of 

 orange found in the females; lower jaw mostly golden; 3 bright-yellow 

 stripes obliquely across the cheeks to the jaws ; dorsal and caudal finely 

 speckled with olive ; tip of dorsal orange, as also the lower edge of 

 caudal and anal; ventrals orange red; no ocellus on dorsal. Female 

 pale, with numerous blotches of light bright orange, these mostly 

 longitudinally oblong on upper parts and irregular or vertical below; 

 sides of head marked with bronze; lower jaw whitish; fins plain; dorsal 

 and caudal slightly yellow. Young females with traces of 1 or 2 dusky 

 bars at base of caudal. Still younger specimens (as in the original types) 

 nearly plain silvery. Coasts of southern Florida. Exceedingly abun- 

 dant in lagoons and shallow shores about the Florida Keys and north to 

 Pensacola. A strongly marked species, larger than most others of the 

 genus, reaching a length of 3 inches; here described from Key West 

 specimens, (carpio, carp.) 



Oyprinodon carpio, GATHER, Cat., vi, 306, 1866, America, locality unknown; JORDAN & GIL- 

 BERT, Synopsis, 330, 1883. 



Oyprinodon mydrus, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 433, Pensacola, Florida. 

 (Type, No. 30479. Coll. Stearns.) JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 110. 



993. CTPRINODON FELICIANUS (Poey). 



Head 3 in length with caudal; depth 2 ; eye 3 in head. D. 12; A. 10; 

 scales 30. Back elevated; mouth small, circular, with trifid teeth. Pec- 

 toral reaching vent; ventral small; male with small prickles on the scales. 

 Brownish, the belly yellow, reddish in life; body with 6 brown vertical 

 bands ; dorsal dusky ; pectoral and anal yellowish, edged with dusky ; 

 caudal yellowish, with a terminal band of black, a rather faint bar at 

 base. Length If inches. Cuba. (Poey) ; not seen by us. (Named for 

 Felix Garcia y Chavez, of Havana.) 



Trifarciuis felicianus, POEY, Synopsis, 412, 1867, Havana. (Coll. Poey.) 



994. CTPKINODON LATIFASCIATUS, Garman. 



Head 4 in total length ; depth 3. D. 12; A. 11; V.6; P. 14; scales 30-11. 

 Form and dentition of C. variegatus, the black caudal band much wider ; 

 a light band from middle of opercle to lower half of caudal ; a dark band 

 above this, separated by a narrower band of light from the dark olive of 

 the back ; silvery color of belly separated from the light band on the 

 flanks by a short band of brown ; fins clouded with brown ; caudal with 

 a narrow dark band across its base and a broad one across its extremity. 

 Parras, Coahuila, Mexico. (Garman); not seen by us. (latus, broad; 

 fasciatus, banded.) 



Cyprinodpn latifasciatus, GARMAN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zob'l., viu, No. 3, 92, 1881, Parras, Coa- 

 huila, Mexico; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 329, 1883. 



