220 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 



THE BARRED MINNOW. 



Hydrargira multifasciata. 

 Hydrargira multifasciata. Lesueuk, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Vol. 1, p. 131. 



Characteristics. Fifty transverse bands on the sides, alternately olive brown and blue. Dor- 

 sal and anal nearly equal. Length three inches. 



Description. Body more elevated in the middle than in the preceding, and less transparent. 

 Snout shorter, and ventrals larger. Dorsal and anal fins almost equal, the latter pointed. 

 Pectorals with their tips passing beyond the base of the ventrals. Eyes rounded. 



Length, 3'0. 



Fin rays, D. 14 ; P. 18 ; V. 6 ; A. 12 ; C. 16 f . 



This species, according to M. Lesueur, is also found in Saratoga lake. It may prove to be 

 the young of the preceding. 



THE CHAMPLAIN MINNOW. 



Hydrargira atricada. 



Characteristics. Olive-brown, with a broad black stripe across the tail. Length two to three 

 and a half inches. 



Description. Shape that of the F. viridescens, represented on Plate 31, fig. 99. Back 

 nearly straight, flat and slightly depressed in front of the dorsal fin. Head flattened above, 

 slightly descending to the pointed snout. Scales large, orbicular, with impressed concentric 

 stria?, rounded on the head above, distributed over the opercles, aud elongated where they 

 cover the base of the caudal fin. Thirty-six were enumerated along the lateral line. Nume- 

 rous mucous pores about the head and on the opercles. Two contiguous and near the poste- 

 rior margin of the orbits ; and behind these, two others in an obliquely descending line. Three 

 pair between the orbits, and others before the eyes, on the cheeks, and the branches of the 

 lower jaw. Nostrils double ; the posterior largest. Eyes large, near the snout, with the 

 upper margin of the orbits in the facial line. Opercle large and rounded. Five branchial rays, 

 of which the three upper are broad and flattened. Mouth small ; tongue long, thin, and en- 

 larged at the end. Teeth in the lower jaw, numerous, minute, acute, and much recurved ; 

 in a single series on the sides, and double in front. In front of the upper jaw, a small patch 

 of minute teeth. Asperities in the pharynx. Air-bladder large. 



The dorsal fin of fifteen rays, higher than long, placed far back, and commencing nearly 

 above the origin of the ventrals. The first short, - l long ; the second much longer; the 

 third longest, and subequal with the remainder ; it is coterminal with the anal. Pectoral 

 obtusely pointed ; the middle rays longest, the axillary cavity deep, with slender rays, their 



