31. CYPKINID.E CLIOLA. 179 



spot; probably brilliant in life. Head 4; depth 3. D. 8; A. 9; 

 scales 6-40-4. Sugar-loaf Creek, Arkansas. (Girard.) 



(Cyprinella whipplei Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 198, and U. S. Pac. R. 

 E. Surr. x,270.) 



f)(j. Teetli with, narrow grinding surface. (Photogenis Cope.*) 



247. C. aiialostana (Grd.) J. & G.Sih-cr-fin. 



Body moderately elongate, somewhat compressed, the dorsal and ven- 

 tral outlines regularly and gently arched. Head rather short and deep. 

 Mouth rather small, quite oblique, the lower jaw received within the 

 upper when the mouth is closed. Eye small, 4J in head. Leaden sil- 

 very, bluish in the males ; edges of scales dusky ; a dark vertebral line; 

 a large black spot on the upper posterior part of the dorsal. Paired 

 fins and lower part of belly, as well as the tips of the anal and caudal, 

 and the front and upper parts of the dorsal, charged with clear satin- 

 white pigment in males in the spring ; in full breeding dress the dorsal 

 pigment with a greenish lustre ; no creamy band at base of caudal ; 

 males with the head and front covered with small tubercles. Head 4| ; 

 depth 4. D. 8 ; A. 8 ; scales 5-38-3 ; teeth 1, 4-4, 1, the edges more 

 or less distinctly serrate. L. 4 inches. Pennsylvania and Central New 

 York to Mississippi Valley ; abundant. 



(Cyprinella analostana Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 38: Luxilus Tccntuuki- 

 ensis Kirtland, Bost. Jouru. Nat. Hist, v, 27 (not of Raf.) : Hypsilv.pis JccntucUensis Cope, 

 Cypr. Pen n. 371: Leuciscus analostanus Giiuther, vii,25G: Plwtogensis spilopterus Copo, 

 Cypr. Perm. 378: Leuciscus spiloptcnus Glinther, vii,254.) 



bb. Teeth with entire edges (in the adult). (Eroyala Jordan. t) 

 ft. Teeth with a narrow grinding surface; anal short. 



248. C. galactura (Cope) J. & G. Milky-tailed Shiner. 



Body fusiform, moderately elongate, not greatly compressed. Mouth 

 rather large, jaws nearly horizontal, the upper projecting beyond the 

 lower. Scales less closely imbricated than in the preceding. Lateral 

 line little decurved. Eye small. Steel blue above, silvery below ; dorsal 

 with a black blotch on its posterior rays; caudal fin conspicuously 

 creamy yellow at base, then dusky. Males with the belly, paired fins, 

 and especially the tips of the vertical fins charged with milk-white pig- 

 ment in the spring, the head and front then covered with small tubercles. 

 In high coloration the anal and caudal are sometimes pale reddish. Fe- 



*Cope, Cypr. Penn. I860, 378: type Photogenis spilopterus Cope = Cyprinella analo- 

 stana Grd. (06f, light; yevvau, to be born.) 



t Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii, 20, 1878: type Photogenis stigmaturus Jor. (r/p, 

 spring-time ; 70X0, milk.) 



