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decurved but not very broad muzzle. Barbels quite long and distinct. 

 Thirteen scales in front of the dorsal. Fins well developed ; the first 

 developed rays of the dorsal about twice the height of the last. Pale 

 olivaceous; sides with a plumbeous silvery band, in some specimens 

 forming a stripe through eye and snout, and a dark spot at base of 

 caudal; cheeks silvery; snout in males red, with numerous dust-like 

 tubercjes ; specimens in high spring coloration have the fins largely red. 

 Head 4 ; depth 5. D. 8 ; A. 7 ; scales 5-36-3 ; teeth 1, 4-4, 0. L. 3 

 inches. Basin of the Altamaha, Georgia. 



(Nbcomis rubrifrons Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1876, 330.) 



333. C. liypsiiiotais Cope. 



Body much stouter, more elevated, and more compressed than in the 

 preceding. Head short, broad above, much smaller and more conical 

 than in the preceding. Outline of back rather abruptly declining behind 

 front of dorsal fin, so that the base of the fin is oblique. Mouth inferior, 

 horizontal, small, the maxillary reaching the line of the orbit. Barbels 

 small. Eye small, 3i in head. Color silvery, with a double series of 

 black specks along the lateral line, and a lateral band of dusted black- 

 ish, which passes through eye and snout; males with the fins bright 

 red, and the body with a deep violet lustre, as in Minnilus rubricroceus. 

 Head 3| ; depth 4. D. 8 ; A . 8 ; scales 5-40-3 ; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. L. 3 

 inches. Santee Basin, in North Carolina and South Carolina. 



(Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1870, 458 ; Jordan & Brayton, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. 

 Mns. xii, 1878, 25. Ceratichthys leptocephalus Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Plaila. 1856, 

 213, from Salem, N. C., may be the same, but the description is wholly insufficient for 

 determination. ) 



bb. Teeth one-rowed. 



334. C. dissilllilis (Kirtland) Cope. Spotted Shiner. 



Body long and slender, little compressed, with long caudal peduncle. 

 Head long, rather flat above, the snout somewhat bluntly decurved, pro- 

 jecting a little beyond the rather small, horizontal mouth; lower jaw 

 included ; both jaws with the skin hard in front, forming a sort of lip 

 laterally. Barbel considerably shorter than pupil, maxillary not reach- 

 ing nearly to orbit. Eye very large, high up, somewhat directed up- 

 ward, rather behind the middle of the head, forming more than one- 

 third the length of the head. Opercle small. Dorsal rather large, its 

 posterior border oblique; anal small; caudal well forked; pectoral 

 rather long. Scales rather large, 22 in front of dorsal. Lateral line 

 nearly straight. Olivaceous ; sides silvery, with a bluish lateral band, 

 which is widened into several dusky spots, formed by dark punctulations, 



