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below lips horseshoe-shaped, lower with slight median lobe each side. 

 Interorbital slightly depressed, scarcely concave. Gill opening for- 

 ward to hind postorbital edge. Rakers, 1 + 10, short points, much less 

 than filaments, which are H in eye. Teeth, 5-5, with broad smooth 

 grinding surfaces, ends moderately curved or hooked. Scales with 

 26 to 35 terminal radiating striae; circuli coarse and rather few. 

 Dorsal inserted little nearer snout tip than last anal ray base, first 

 branched ray, 1^ in head; first branched anal ray, If; upper caudal 

 lobe, l+TU, well emarginate behind and lobes pointed; pectoral, 

 1 -I- "5^, nearly to ventral; ventral, If, or li to anal, inserted Httle 

 behind dorsal origin. 



In alcohol nearly walnut-brown; scarcely paler below. Seven 

 indistinct dull obscure rounded blotches, each about size of eye 

 along lateral line and made up of dusky dots. Scales on back 

 medially and along lateral line each with fine dusky dots terminally 

 submarginal. Pale dusky streak from eye forward toward snout tip, 

 another postorbital forward along suborbitals toward maxillary. 

 Iris, pale slaty. Fins, all pale. Dorsal with six horizontal pale 

 dusky lines, and caudal crossed by as many transversely, also small 

 black spot at base of fin medially. Pectoral with six pale transverse 

 streaks and four across ventral. Length, 90 mm. 



Pseudogohio drakei J. F. Abbott differs in having 46 scales in the 

 lateral line and unspotted fins. 



Subfamily Leuciscinae. 



EXOGLOSSOPS, new genus. 



Body robust and caudal peduncle deep. Head moderate. Eye 

 small. Mouth inferior, with hard or bony lower jaw. No barbels. 

 Pharyngeal teeth uniserial. Scales moderate, with well developed 

 basal radiating striae, mostly uniform in size. Lateral line complete. 

 Dorsal opposite ventral. Dorsal and anal without strong bony 

 rays in front. 



Characterized by the uniserial phaiyngeal teeth, horny mandible, 

 absence of barbels, large scales, etc. In a superficial way it suggests 

 the American Exoglossum. 



Type. — Exoglossops geei, new species. 



("E^w, outside; y\(b<xaa, tongue; cbij/, appearance.) 



EXOGLOSSOPS GEEI, new species. 



Head, 4; depth, 3i; D. III. 7, I.; A. III. 6; P. I. 16; V. I. 7; scales, 

 38 in lateral line to caudal base, and 4 more on latter; 6 scales above 

 lateral line to dorsal origin; 6 scales below lateral line to anal origin; 

 14 predorsal scales; head width, 1§ in its length; snout, 3; eye, 4|; 

 maxillary, 3; interorbital, 2f; first branched dorsal ray, 1; first 

 branched anal ray, 1^; least depth of caudal peduncle. If; pectoral l^; 

 ventral, 1|. 



