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Notropis shumardi (Girard). 



Color when fresh in alcohol pale oHve-green, whitish below, and 

 scales above lateral line with slightly darker edges. Body more or 

 less washed with silvery. Dorsal and pectoral dilute reddish with 

 dusky edges above. Caudal pale dusky-gray. Ventral and anal 

 whitish. Snout dusky-brown. Side with a rather broad indistinctly 

 defined silver-gray band from head to caudal, and scales in lateral 

 line after dorsal with blackish dots becoming most distinct on caudal 

 peduncle. No spot at base of caudal. Blackish spots extending 

 from posterior rim of eye backward, but soon becoming indistinct 

 above pectoral. Iris grayish. Limestone Gap, Indian Territory. 



Notropis lutrensis (Baird and Girard). 



Dark nuchal band conspicuous. Small tubercles on upper surface 

 of head and along lower side of body above anal very numerous. 

 Devil's river and Del Rio, Texas. 

 Notropis proserpina (Girard). 



Dusky dots at base of dorsal. Caudal bright yellow. Del Rio, 

 Texas. 



PARANOTROPIS subg. nov. 

 Type Photogenis luciodus Cope 



The species of this group closely resemble those of the subgenus 

 Notropis Rafinesque, which is typified by atherinoidcs. They differ 

 chiefly in the fewer developed anal rays, mostly 7 to 9. They are 

 also distinguished from the Luxilus and Hydrophlox groups by the 

 absence of grinding surfaces on the teeth and the broad scales which 

 are not narrowly imbricated. From Orcella, with which they agree 

 in these respects, they differ in the top of the head which is not espe- 

 cially elevated, so that the eye is nearer the upper than the lower profile. 

 Episema Jordan, based on scahriceps, is preoccupied. 



{Ilapaj near; vwr»?, back, and rpoxU, keel, hence Notropis.) 



Notropis pilsbryi sp. nov. 



Head 4; depth 4i; D. ii, 8; A. ii, 8; P. i, 15; V. i, 8; scales 40 in 

 lateral line to base of caudal, and 3 more on latter; 15 scales before 

 dorsal; 5 scales between origin of dorsal and lateral line; 4 scales 

 between latter and origin of ventral; width of head IfV in its length; 

 depth of head If ; snout 3^ ; eye 3^ ; maxillary 3 ; interorbital space 3^ ; 

 length of depressed dorsal 1; depressed anal l^; pectoral 1^; ventral 

 If; caudal 1; least depth of caudal peduncle 2f. 



Body elongate, compressed, rather slender, more or less fusiform, 



