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Body short and high, somewhat elevated but not closely compressed. 

 Caudal peduncle deep, truncate behind, the fin conspicuously' short 

 and broad. Head heavy, blunt; snout short, bluntly decurved ; mouth 

 terminal, with shoit, slightly oblique gape ; maxillary reaching vertical 

 from posterior nostril, its length equaling that of eye. Eye moderate, 

 about equaling- length of snout, and interorbital width, 3J in head (eye 

 3 in head in specimens of 2 inches and less). Teeth 4-4 with strong 

 hook, and well-developed flattish grinding surface. 



Scales rather small, smaller and more closely imbricated along an- 

 terior portion of lateral line ; those in front of dorsal very small and 

 much crowded (as in Pimtphalcs notatus). Lateral line little decurved, 

 rising anteriorly to shoulder. 



Fins all small, the caudal esiDecially short, less than length of head. 

 First ray of dorsal ("rudimentarj^") simple and stiff, though distinctly 

 articulated, and separated from the first branched ray by a membrane 

 (as in Pmephales). Front of dorsal over or slightly behind insertion 

 of ventrals ; pectorals not reaching ventrals, the latter not to vent. 

 Highest dorsal ray If in head. 



Head 4 to 4^ in length ; depth 4 to 4^. D. 8; A. 7. Lat. 1. 42f ; 

 about 28 scales before dorsal fin. 



Olivaceous above, the scales except at the base covered with black 

 punctulatious ; no dark vertebral line. A narrow plumbeous band 

 along middle of sides, conspicuous and black in the young, and always 

 terminating in a very distinct small black spot on middle of caudal 

 base ; a black blotch on opercle. Fins translucent; dorsal with a con- 

 spicuous black blotch on middle of anterior rays and usually with a 

 transverse series of small, black si)0ts above this. 



This species, which had not been seen since it was originally de- 

 scribed, was found in large numbers in the White Kiver near Bedford, 

 Lawrence County, Indiana. It has also been found by Prof. S. A. Forbes 

 in Illinois. Adult males have a few well-developed tubercles on the 

 snout in the spring. ' 



17. Notropis* stramineus Cope. 



A single specimen was found in White Eiver. 



18. Notropis boops sp. nov. (34982.) 



Species with much the appearance of Wotropis riibellus, but the body 

 more elevated and compressed. Outline of back angulated at the 

 front of dorsal, to which point the anterior profile rises in a straight 

 line ; caudal peduncle rather slender. 



Premaxillaries anteriorly on a level with axis of body, which passes 

 through the middle of the orbit. Snout short, not blunt. Mouth 



* Under the earlier name, Nofropis, I include the species referred to Minnilus, CUoIa, 

 and JJemitremia by Jordan «fc Gilbert, Synopsis Fish N. A., jip. 162-203. 



