190 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY -- IV. 



rather below pupil, maxillary reaching beyond front of orbit. Lateral 

 line somewhat deeurved. Nineteen scales in front of dorsal. Dorsal in- 

 serted somewhat behind ventrals. Females plain olivaceous. Males 

 dark steel-blue, a dark lateral band of coaly punctulatious, which is 

 usually distinct on the anterior part of the body, and passes through 

 the eye around the snout; tins all rich, clear red, the dorsal crimson, 

 the caudal pink, the lower fins scarlet; head pale red, the lower jaw 

 Hushed as if bloody; eyes bluish or flushed with red ; a lustrous streak 

 along sides; silvery jelow. In high coloration the whole body is more 

 or less red. Males with the head and autedorsal region dusted with 

 tine white tubercles. Head 4; depth 4. D. 8; A. 9; scales 7-38-3; 

 teeth 2, 4-4, 2, the edges of the grinding surface often serrate. L. 2.J 

 inches. Headwaters of the Tennessee and Savannah Rivers. A sur- 

 passingly beautiful little fish, abounding in rock-pools at the foot of 

 cascades. 



ritbricrocpus Cope, Jonrn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868, 231 : Nijdrophlox rubri- 

 croccus Jordan & Brayton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii, 32, 1878.) 



2G6. Itl. lutipinnis Jordan & Brayton. 



Body stout and rather strongly compressed, the dorsal region some- 

 what elevated, the outline of the back sloping each way from the dorsal 

 tin. Head short and rather deep, broad and fiattish above, the mu/xle 

 moderately rounded. Eye rather large, 3j in head. Mouth rather large. 

 but smaller than in the preceding, quite oblique, the maxillary reaching 

 to orbit. Mandible included. Eighteen scales in front of dorsal. In 

 life clear olive, with very intense green dorsal and vertebral lines ; an 

 intense metallic blackish band along sides; below this the sides are 

 bright silvery ; the whole body in the males bright, clear red, the color 

 of red berries; fins all bright golden yellow; tip of lower jaw black. 

 Head I 1 ; depth 4|. D. 8; A. 8; scales 7-40-3; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. L. 3 

 inches. Oconee Jfiver, Georgia. 



luti;>i>nt'm .Jordan & Braylon, Bull. U. S. Nut. Mus. xii, 30, 1878.) 



II, chloroccplialus (Cope) .lor. &. Gilb. 

 I'.ody stout, with deep caudal peduncle. Head broad, with descend- 

 ing mn/./le. Month oblique, the maxillary reaching beyond line of orbit, 

 premaxillary opposite lower margin of pupil. F.ye large, 3 in head. 

 Intel-orbital space greater than mu/xle. Lateral line moderately de- 

 curved. Sixteen scales in front of dorsal. . Color olivaceous, every- 

 where dusted with blackish specks, which form a lateral band, which 

 terminates in a dusky spot at base of caudal; green vertebral and lat- 



