THE CYPRINODONTS. 27 
length are more nearly uniform in color. An individual of about one inch 
has the dorsal blotches more distinct and separated from the lateral by a 
light stripe, below which there is a series of eight triangular or v-shaped 
blotches, some of which coalesce. Below the eye downward and forward 
a brown spot extends to the chin. On the cheeks, snout, and top of head 
there are dots or mottlings of darker. 
Florida to Texas. 
Cyprinodon Floridae. 
Plate I. Fig. 4, teeth, 
Jordanella Floride Goode, 1880, P. U.S. Mus., II, 117; Jor. 1881, P. U. S. Mus., ITT, 20,—1885, 
P. U. S. Mus., VII, 322; Jor. & G., 1882, B.16 U.S. Mus., 328; Hensh., 1891, B. U. S. F. Com., IX, 
374; Woolm., 1892, B. U. S. F. Com,, X, 294, 296, 298, 300, pl. 52, fig. & 
B. 5; D. 17 (16-18); A. 12 (11-13); V.6; P. 14; Li. 25-27; Ltr. 11- 
10; Vert. 13414. 
Body and head compressed ; crown flattened ; caudal pedicel deep, taper- 
ing more, in a lateral view, than on other species; back arched, descending 
gradually toward the caudal from the origin of the dorsal. Depth one third 
of total length; head one third of distance from snout to base of caudal. 
Snout short, blunt; chin steep. Mouth medium, oblique, opening upward ; 
lower jaws longer, firmly united; upper shorter, protractile. Teeth in a 
single series on each jaw, tricuspid. Eye large, one third longer than snout, 
one third of head, nearly as wide as forehead. Dorsal elongate, originating 
about midway from the middle of the eye to the base of the caudal; base 
little shorter than head, extending little backward of that of anal ; first ray 
strong, spine-like, following rays weak and slender. Anal small, originating 
in front of a vertical from the middle of the dorsal base. Ventrals small, 
not reaching anal. Pectorals reaching bases of ventrals. Caudal large, 
convex on hind margin. Scales large, humeral scales larger. Intestine 
nearly thrice the length of the body. 
Brownish to olivaceous, with a series of six or eight brown transverse 
blotches on the back, and another series, opposite those of the former, along 
the lateral line ; with a black spot below the eye; with or without a blackish 
spot on the hindmost rays of the dorsal, and with a large blackish spot, in 
the lateral series, on the middle of the side below the dorsal spine. Fins, 
body, and head, with puncticulations of brown, Belly and lower parts of 
head whitish. In life there were longitudinal streaks of lighter color on the 
flanks. 
