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fin, 3 to 3.V in head. Adipose fin with slight notch. MaxilUiry barbel 

 extending about to gill-openings. Coloration in spirits almost uniformly 

 yellowish-brown; vertical fins yellowish usually, with a darker margiu. 

 This description includes K exilis Nelson, which is, in our opinion, not 

 a distinct species. 



4. Noturus miurus Jordan. 



JSoturus miurus Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 371, 1877 (Ohio Valley and 



S.W.); Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 98 and 100, 1878 (Great Lakes, 



Ohio Valley, to Wis. and La.) ; Jordan, Eept. on Fishes of Ohio, 800, 1882. 



(Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, and south ward to La. ); Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 



Sci., 119, 1877 (White R., Wabash R., Ohio R., Tangipahoa R.) ; Jordan, 



Man. Vert., 336, 1878 (Ohio to Iowa and La.) ; Jordan, Bull. Ills. Lab. Nat. 



Hist., 68, 1878; Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. A., 99, 1883 (Great 



Lakes to Minn, and La.). 

 Noturus eleutherus JoTdan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 101, 1878 (foot-note: not 



text; Tar River, N. C.) (not type) ; Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., 368, 1878 (Neuse River ; no description) ; Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. 



Fishes N. A., 99, 1883 (rivers of N, C. and E. Teun.) 



HaUtat. — Great Lakes to Minnesota and Louisiana ; Great Lakes ; 

 Ohio, Wabash, White, Blue, Tar, Neuse, Tangipahoa Elvers. 



5. Noturus eleutherus Jordan. 



JSioiurus miurus Jordan and Copeland, Check List, 160, 1876 (French Broad; 

 no description). 



Noturus eleutherus Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 372, 1877 (French Broad 

 River, Tenn.) ; Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 101, 1877 (French Broad 

 River); Jordan, Man. Vert.. 336, 1878 (French Broad River). 



EaUtat. — French Broad Eiver, Tennessee. 



Head, 33 ; depth, 5^ 5 width of head, U. D. I, 7 ; A. 11. 



Body rather robust, not elevated in the dorsal region. Mouth moder- 

 ate, upper jaw much projecting. Interorbital space slightly convex, 3 

 in head. Maxillary barbel reaches about to gill-openings. Dorsal spine 

 25 in head ; pectoral spine 14 iu head, with six large recurved teeth on 

 inner edge, whose length is about equal to the diameter of the spine; 

 outer edge obscurely serrated. Humeral process indistinct. Adipose 

 fin low, distinctly separated from the caudal. Anal short and elevated. 



Color, in spirits, brownish, dark above, becoming lighter behind and 

 below; everywhere punctulate, except on belly. 



This species is here described from the original type (No. 29G78, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.), 31 inches long. It was taken alive in the mouth of a water 

 snalie, by Professors Jordan and Gilbert, in the Big Pigeon Eiver, a trib- 

 utary of the French Broad, at Clifton, Tenn. It is the only representa- 

 tive of the species known, and may be an abnormal specimen of N. 

 miurus. The specimens from Tar Eiver, North Carolina, afterwards re- 

 ferred to this species by Professor Jordan, are large examples of N. 

 miurus. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 82 41 ' lHay S3, 1 883. 



