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Hybopsis rubrifrons (Jordan). Five small examples, which 

 agree with those from Toccoa Creek. 

 Minytrema melanops (Rafinesque). Young example. 

 Lepomis auritus (Linne). Two young. 



Georgia. 



(1). Toccoa Creek, tributary of the Chatooga River in the 

 Tungalow River Basin, near Toccoa, Stephen County, was visited 

 October 17. This is a stream of moderate size, with sandy and 

 gravelly bottom. It is polluted with three local sewers, though 

 apparently not greatly detrimental to fish-life, which was very abun- 

 dant in the pools. Large suckers, cats, sunfish and perch were re- 

 ported abundant. 



Notropis rubricroceus (Cope). Very abundant and found in 

 schools of varying size, of from a few individuals to several hundred. 

 We secured over three hundred specimens. In the adults snout 

 brilliant orange. Often small examples show an orange tip to the 

 snout, without the brilliant orange-red color of the body in general. 

 In the young often also dorsal base, caudal and other fins all more 

 or less tinted with pale orange. 



Hybopsis rubrifrons (Jordan). 



Head 3^ to 3|; depth 4j to 5; D. ii, 7; A. n, 7, scales 35 in 

 lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter, 6 scales above 

 1. 1., 5 below; 14 predorsal scales; snout 3 to 3| in head; eye 3^ 

 to 3f; maxillary 3 to 3f ; interorbital 3 to 3\. Body fusiform, 

 moderately compressed. Head conic, scarcely compressed. Snout 

 conic, somewhat depressed, length about § its width. Eye high, 

 less than snout, little advanced, equals interorbital, greater than 

 snout and interorbital in young. Mouth small, snout greatly 

 protruding. Maxillary reaches eye, terminal barbel always con- 

 spicuous. Interorbital broadly convex. Teeth 1,4 — 4, 1, hooked, 

 with grinding surfaces. Scales more or less uniform, absent from 

 breast, with 10 to 13 radiating striae, and circuli moderate. 

 Color in alcohol with back pale olivaceous, each scale on back 

 bordered broadly with dull dusky dots. Dusky leaden band from 

 front of preorbital to base of caudal, where it ends in a small dusky 

 spot. Under surface of head and trunk, below lateral band, bright 

 silvery white. Fifty specimens, 40 to 84 mm. 



Abundant in the channels, associated with the other species. 

 Compared with Hybopsis amblops, from Paint Rock, Alabama, 

 the eye of the latter is larger, greater than either the snout or inter- 

 orbital space. In Hybopsis rubrifrons the eye is distinctly smaller 

 than the snout and though it often equals the interorbital is 



