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width. Length of head contaiued 4.12 times iu length without caudal 

 fin. Muzzle rather acuminate ; maxillary bone not reaching orbit. Radii: 

 D. 1-8; A. 1-8. Scales 7-37-3. Silvery, without markings, excepting a 

 large black spot at base of caudal fin nearly as large as the orbit. 

 Teeth 1.4-4.1 or 4-4, crenate. My largest specimens exceed those of 

 Girard in proi)ortions, measuring m. .084 in total length. 



This species is near the G. cercostigma Cope, differing mainly iu its 

 larger eye and deficiency in the number of the small teeth of the ex- 

 ternal row. According to Jordan, the Cyprinella texana Gird, is this fish. 

 Abundant in Johnson's Fork of the Llano River. 



2Ioniana jugalis Cope (variety or different si^ecies?). The Texan form 

 which I mention under this name agrees nearly with that to which I 

 first applied it, but I find that numerous specimens agree in possessing 

 a smaller number of longitudinal series of scales above the lateral line, 

 and sometimes one less below it. The number is ^Aj ; in M.jugalis from 

 the Missouri -}. Abundant in the Trinity at Fort Worth and Dallas. 



2Iomana sp. A much more slender species than the last, represented 

 by very small specimens. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 



Conepatus mapurito Gm. Mr. Boll sends me this skunk from the 

 Wichita region, near the Red River. 



Eumeces pacliyurus Cope. I find on comparison of this species vrith 

 specimens of E. septcntrionalis Bd. from Neosho Falls, Kansas, in the 

 Smithsonian Museum, that the differences between the two species arc 

 not great, but that they are nevertheless sufficiently distinguished bj- 

 the following characters: 



E. padiijurus. 

 Postuasal scute reacliiutj iutcrfroutonasal. 



No dark dorsal stripes. 

 Rows of scales, 26. 



E. septcntrionalis. 

 Postnasal widely separated from iiiter- 



frontonasal. 

 Two black dorsal stripes. 

 Kows of scales, 28. 



Two specimens in the Smithsonian Museum (No. 5325) from Savannah, 

 Ga., appear to represent a form of E. septentrionalis, differing only in the 

 relatively longer legs. They are, when extended on the side, only sepa- 

 rated by a space equal to the length of the forefoot. In the typical 

 form the space is equal to the length of the forearm and forefoot to- 

 gether. 



Some exceptional forms of Eumeces ohsoletus have been sent me from 

 Douglas County, Kansas, by Prof. F. H. Snow, of Lawrence. It is 



