16 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1885. 



Semotilus speciosus Giiard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1856, 204 (Sweet 

 Water R., Nebraska); Girard, Pacific R. R. Rept., 1858, 283, PI. 61, 

 fig. 11 (Tributary of Platte River). 



Semotilus macrocephalus Giiard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1856, 204 

 (Fort Pierre). 



Leucosomus macroeephalus Girard, Pacific R. R. Rept., 1858, 252, PI. 

 61, fig. 1 (Fort Pierre). 



Semotilus hammondi Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1860, 474 

 (Kansas). 



Semotilus corporalis Putnam, Bulletin Museum Comparative Zoology, 

 1863, 8 (synonymy only, not Cyprinus corporalis Mitchill); Cope, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1865, 85 (Platte River); Cope, Cyprinidae 

 Penn., 1866, 363, PI. 10, fig. 2 ; Storer, History Fishes Mass., 1867, 

 256 (near Williams College, no description) ; Cope, Hayden's Geo- 

 logical Survey, Wyoming, for 1870, 1872, 442, 472 (Platte R.); Abbott, 

 "American Naturalist, April, 1870, 12" (Delaware R.); Jordan, 

 Indiana Geological Survey, 1874, 223 ; Jordan, Manual Vertebrates, 

 1st ed., 1876, 277 ; Jordan, Bulletin Buffalo Society Nat. Hist., 1876, 

 94; Jordan, Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1877, 327, 362, 368, 369, 

 376 (Ocmulgee R., Etowah R., White R., Ind.); Jordan, Annals N. 

 Y. Acad. Sciences, vol. i, No. 4, 107, 1877 (Housatonic R., Hudson 

 R., Cayuga Lake, Genesee R., Delaware R., L. Erie, L. Michigan, 

 Fox R., Rock R., Peckatonica R., Wisconsin R., Suamico R., White 

 R., Rlinois R., Ohio R., Kentucky R., Rock Castle R., Cumberland 

 R., Salt R., Powell's R., French Broad R., Etowah R., Ocmulgee 

 R.); Jordan & Brayton, Bulletin U. S. National Museum, 1878, xii, 

 26, 38, 54, 68, 80, 86 (Saluda R., Ocmulgee R., Clinch R., French 

 Broad R., Rock Castle R., Alabama Basin, James R., Neuse R., 

 Santee R., Gt. Pedee R., Tennessee R., Ohio R., Illinois R., and 

 other streams); Hay, Proc. U. S. National Museum, 1880, 512 (Ca- 

 tawba Creek, Miss.); Jordan, Manual Vertebrates, 1880, ed. iii, 304; 

 Hay, Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1882 (Big Black R., Miss.); 

 Jordan, Rept. Fishes Ohio, 1882, 863 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis 

 Fishes N. A., 1882, 221 ; Bean, Catalogue Fishes exhibited Inter- 

 national Exhibition, London, 1883. 



Leucosomus corporalis Giinther, Catalogue Fishes British Museum, 

 1868, 269 (Susquehanna R., Tioga Co., N. Y.; Lake Erie). 



Habitat. — Dakota to Western Massachusetts, South to Georgia 

 and Indian Territory, especially abundant in the Mississippi 

 Valley. It is found especially in small brooks in the grass and 

 weeds. 



The specimens before us are from near Bloomington, Indiana ; 

 Clifty Creek, Ind.; French Broad River, Tenn.; Rock Castle 

 River, Ky.; Rolling Fork, Ky.; Wolf Creek, Ky. We adopt for 

 this species the specific name atromaculatus, instead of corporalis, 



