ÖFVERSIGT AF K. VETENSK.-AKAD. FÖRHANDLINGAR 1895, N:0 3. 191 



The upper band extends round the upper and lower lips, through 

 the eye, to the upper root of the caudal fin. The lower band 

 unites with tliat of the other side to a semicircle under the chin, 

 a little behind the extremity of the lower jaw, which is white 

 between the upper and lower bands. It runs from there below 

 the eye through the root of the pectoral fin (on which it forms 

 a darker spöt) to the base of the anal fin from thence foUowing, 

 the lower margin of the body to the base of the caudal fin. At 

 the base of the caudal fin is a large red spöt. The caudal and 

 dorsal fins are spotted with red. 



The outer teeth of both jaws are enlarged by which cha- 

 racter this species indicates itself as belonging to the genus 

 Fundulus. 



The intestinal tract is also rather short. On the other hand 

 this fish forms a link between the two genera Fundulus and 

 Haplochilus, through the position of the dorsal fin behind the 

 origin of the anal, which character it has in common with Ha- 

 plochilus; but the dorsal fin is rather long as in Fundulus. 

 Fundulus hivittatus ressembles in this respect Haplochilus play- 

 fairii GÜNTHER from the Seychelles, but its enlarged teeth and 

 short intestinal tract separate it from the whole genus Haplo- 

 chilus. 



As is already mentioned this species stånds between Ha- 

 fflocliilus and Fundulus and it certainly is better to refer it to 

 the latter genus, although the dorsal comraences behind the 

 anal fin. 



The above described specimen was caught in the same rivulet 

 as the foregoing species, near the waterfall of the river N'dian. 



Funduhis sjöstedti n. sp. 



Of this species, which I have named in honor of the col- 

 lector, I have had the opportunity to see a beautiful and well 

 preserved male, and a female in less good condition. The former 

 was caught in the same rivulet as the foregoing specimens, the 

 latter at Bonge, together with Eleotris Büttikoferi, in a muddy 

 rivulet. 



