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geal bones are, as in the latter, very small and weak, scarcely half the size usual in 
Notropis ; the base of the bone is abruptly dilated at outer third, as in emilice. 
Origin of dorsal behind insertion of ventrals, slightly nearer base of caudal than 
tip of snout; anterior dorsal and anal rays longest, the outer margins of these fins 
concave. Caudal strongly forked, the lobes acute. Pectorals not reaching ventrals, 
the latter to, or nearly to, vent. 
Lateral line incomplete, present on 7 or 8 of the anterior scales only. 
Head 4^ to 4^ in length ; depth 4§ to 5. D. I, 8; A. I, 8. Scales 37f ; the breast 
scaled. 
Color iu spirits: Dusky olive, lighter below, the scales conspicuously margined 
with dusky, giving a checkered appearance to sides. A dusky lateral band passing 
through eye, and downwards to mouth, including tip of lower jaw; above this a con- 
spicuous V-shaped light area on snout. A round, black blotch on base of caudal, 
nearly as large as eye. A dark dorsal streak, and one backwards from anal. Fins 
dusky; in males, a black blotch on first two dorsal rays, the marginal third of fin 
dusky; anal and ventrals broadly margined with blackish. 
Five specimens, the longest 2 inches long, were obtained in a lagoon of Buckhead 
Creek, at Milieu, Ga. 
9. Notemigonus chrysoleucus bosci (Cuv. & Val.). 
Brier Creek aud the Ogeechee River; abundant. A. 14 to 17. 
10. Chologaster cornutus Agassiz. 
Cholof/aster avitus Jordan aud Jeukins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ]&88, p. 356. 
A single specimen less than one inch long, from Millen, Ga. Agreeing wholly with 
Dr. Jordan’s specimens from Dismal Swamp, except that the caudal fin is more largely 
dusky, the sub-basal white band being represented only by a translucent area on 
upper aud lower rays near base. There can be little doubt that this is identical with 
the cornutus of Agassiz, difiering from the original description only in being more 
slender. 
11. Fundulus heteroclitus (Liiiu.) 
Not abundant; taken iu a small stream in the suburbs of Savannah, Ga. 
12 Zygonectes nottii Agassiz. ‘-Star-headed minnow.” 
Fundulue eonatus Cuv. & Val., XVIII, 196. Haplochilm sonatas, Gunther, VI, 316; not Esox 
zonatus Mitcbill. 
Zygonectes liiieolatus, Agassiz, Aiuer. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1854, 353. 
Zygonectes craticula, Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., V, 433. 
Zygonectes sonifer, Jordan &. Meek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 482. 
Abundant in lagoons connected with the Ogeechee River, aud its tributary Buck- 
head Creek, at Millen. A few also taken at Savannah. 
I agree with Prof. O. P. Hay in identifying craticula with nottii. The ‘‘fainter 
interrupted lines” are in females visible only towards the back, in males more con- 
spicuous, and present also on middle of sides. 
Zygonectes zonifer was based on males of this species. The vertical bars vary in 
width and also in number, ranging from eight to fourteen. 
Zygonectes guttatus Agassiz (1. c.) seems to be identical with Zygonectes escambke 
Bollmau (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 46.3), and must supersede the latter. 
