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6. Fundulus diaphanus (Le Sueur). Sprinff Minnow; Barred Killijish. 
The eastern limit of the range of this species is given as eastern Massachusetts.* 
We now record the taking by W. 0. Kendall of numerous specimens in Washington 
County, Me., in August and October, 1893. The localities in Avhich the fish was 
found were Boyden Lake, Pennamaquan Lake, and Grand Lake Stream. 
The examples from this region present some features that deserve mention. One 
noticeable point of difference between tliem and the typical species is the more elon- 
gated body; while the species is usually described as having the greatest body depth 
contained 4^ to 5 times in the body length, the specimens before us from eastern Maine 
have the length equal to 5f or 6 times the depth. The scales in our sj)ecimens are 
also much smaller than in southern and western examples. The scales in this species 
are given as 40-12 f and 46-12 Maine fish, however, liave from 54 to 58 scales in 
the lateral line and 16 in a transverse series. Other morphological features of these 
eastern fish are not peculiar, the head being contained 3| or 3f times in length and 
the eye 3^ times in head, the dorsal having 13 or 14 and the anal 11 rays. The color 
•differences of the sexes, to which attention has recently been called, § are well exhib- 
ited in the larger specimens. 
7. Querimana gyrans Jordan & Gilbert. 
The discovery of this diminutive species was made by Prof. Jordan at Key West, 
Pla., in 1883, and the description appeared in the ‘‘Proceedings of the U. S. Kational 
Mitseum”i| for 1884, where the following reference to it is given: 
This little fish was found to be very abundant about the market wharves at Key West, aj)parently 
feeding on the waste fi.shes thrown overboard by the fishermen. None of the many specimens obtained 
is more than three-fourths of an inch long, nor is it likely that the species attains a much greater size. 
The fishes swim aboiat in schools of about 50 at the surface of the water, the school having often 
something of a rotary motion, like a school of whirligig beetles (Gyrinidw). When so swimming the 
pale spot on the back is very conspicuous, and the bronze-colored ones (males?) are readily distin- 
guished from the green ones. When alarmed, the whole school sinks to the bottom. All the speci- 
mens obtained were dipped up with a ^lail from the boats. 
It is probable that the species obtained at Charlestown, and referred by ns to Querimana Ixarengus, 
belonged to this species. Unfortunately they have been destroyed. 
lu Aitril, 1892, one of tlie writers found tins fisli iii large numbers iu tbe Albe- 
marle region of North Carolina.^] In tbe fresh waters of the Pasquotank Elver and 
Edenton Bay it was very abundant; in the Eoanoke Elver one specimen was obtained 
as far up as Plymouth. In July of the same year one of the writers, while connected 
with the IT. S. Pish Commission schooner Grampus^ saw an abundance of these fish 
in the lower part of Chesapeake Bay and took a number of specimens,** which are 
now before us. 
* Jordan, IManual of tbe Vertebrates. 
t Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
t Manual of the Vertebrates. 
V) Notes on a Collection of Fishes from the Lower Potomac River, Maryland. By Hugh M. Smith, 
M. I). Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1890. Also, Fishes of Pennsylvania. By Tarleton H. Bean, M. d. 
II Descriptions of Ten New Species of Fishes from Key tVest, Florida. By David S. Jordan and 
Charles H. Gilbert. 
^ Report on a Collection of Fishes from the Albemarle Region of North Carolina. By Hugh M. 
Smith, M.D. Bvilletiu U. S. Fish Commission, 1891. 
** Ibid, p. 192, footnote. 
