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CYPRINODONTIM]. 



FUNDULUS BERMUDA, Giinther. 

 Fundulus Bermuda}, Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 1874. 



Very common in tbe brackish water of the swamps and in ditches. 

 Attains the length of four inches. 



SYNODONTHXE. 



SYNODUS LACERTA, {Valenciennes) Goode. 

 Snake-fish. 



Salmo Saurus, LinnE, Syst. Nat. 2 ed. 11,511, 1766; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1, 1376. 

 Saurus lacerta, Cuv & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xsii, 463, 1849 (not Eisso). 

 Saurus griseus, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii, 188, 1841. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 

 v, 395. 



A specimen, seventeen inches long, was taken off the " ducking-stool '' 



in March, by a line fisherman. Its occurrence in this part of the Atlautic 



is very novel, but it agrees closely with a specimen of Saurus griseus 



sent to the United States National Museum by Dr. Gunther. Its color 



was dusky-gray above, yellow below. Its formulae are as follows: — 



Branchiostegals, 16-17 (on opposite sides). D. 12 ; A. 12. Lateral 

 31 

 line, GO. Transverse line, -f . 







ELOPID^E. 



MEGALOPS THEISSOIDES, {Block) Giinther. 

 Tabpum. 



Camarijntcuagii, Marcgrave, Hist. Ac. Brasil, 1648, 179. 



Chqua ajprinoides, Blocii, Icbth., xii, 1797, 24, tab. cccciii. 



Olvpea thrimndes, Schneider, Bh>ch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 424. 



Mcgalops thrissoidts, GCnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. vii, 1868, 472.— Glll, in Barrel's 



Eep. on Sea Fisheries of Southern New England, 1873, 810. 

 Clupea apalike, Hauy, Encyclopedic Methodique.— Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 1803, 



425, 461. 

 Chqua gigantea. Shaw. Geu. Zool. v, 1803, 173. 

 Mcgalops atlanticas, Cuv. & Val.. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xix, 1840, 398— Muller & Tro- 



schkl, Schoinburgk's Hist. Barbados, 1848, 676.— Poey, Eep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 



1868, 423. 



Extremely rare ; a single skin about six feet long was shown me 

 in the collection of John T. Bartram, of Saint George's. The species 



