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It is found near the falls and is only a small fish 2 or 3 inches 

 long. Its vulgar name is Toter or Stone Toter. (Toter is a 

 Virginia name for carrier.) There is a kind of Chub in Vir- 

 ginia which bears the same name and has the habit of pushing 

 pebbles with its head in order to form an inclosure where the 

 female lays its eggs; the name of Toter was given to the Ohio 

 fish owing to the same peculiarity. It is a rare fish and used 

 as bait. The mouth projects in a short and obtuse snout. Iris 

 large and gilt. Opercule simple. Pectoral fins lanceolate a- 

 cute, as long as the head and with 12 rays. Abdominal fins 

 lanceolate acute, situated nearly half way between the head and 

 the Vfnt, but not reaching it. Dorsal fin trapezoidal. Anal 

 fin elongate. Caudal with 20 rays. 



XXVI Genus. Ribbonfish. Sarchirus. Sarchire. 



Body scalelcss slender cylindrical, slightly compressed. Vent 

 posterior. Head nearly square. Jaws elongated narrow flar 

 with four rows of small unequal teeth, the lower one shorter 

 and moveable, the upper one longer immobile, with an obtuse 

 knob atthe end. Pectoral fins round without rays, but with a thin 

 circular membrane surrounding an adipose base. Abdominal 

 Sns anterior with six rays. Dorsal fin posterior nearer to the 

 tail than the anal. Caudal fin lanceolate, decurreul beneath. 



A very distinct genus of the family Esoxida, difi*ering from 

 all the genera of rt by its fleshy pectoral fins: It differs besides 

 Irom I.ejiisosteus by the naked body, and from JEsojc by thft 

 tail &c. The name means fleshy arms. 



83 Species. Ohio Ribbonfish. Sarchirus -vittatus, Sar- 

 chire xubanne. 



Back olivaceous brovvn, and v/lth three longitudinal furrows, ft 

 black- lateral band from the mouth to the end of the tail, n® lat- 

 evRl line. Belly with a lateral row of black dots on each sido. 

 Jaws obtuse longer than the head. Anal and dorsal fins ovate 

 acute with two transverse black bands, the anal with ten rays, the 

 dorsal with nine. Tail unequilateral acuminate. 



Sarchirus vittatus, Raf. in Journ. Ac. Nat. 5c. Philadel- 

 phia, V. 1, page 418, tab. 17. fig. 2. 



In the lower parts of the Ohio and at the falls; length froni 



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