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than in the next, about 4 in length : eye about equal to snout, 5^ in head, much 

 Bmallcr than in B. hubalus : mouth large, considerably oblique, opening well for- 

 wards : mandible longer than eye : dorsal fin lower and less rapidly depressed 

 than in the next, the longest ray scarcely half the length of the base of the fin ; 

 unal fin rounded, its rays not rapidly shortened, the middle ones not much shorter 

 than the longest: colors very dark; fins all black: scales 8-41-7; dorsal, 30; 



anal, 10 URUS, 51. 



•** Mouth small, inferior, slightly corrugated : depth 3| to 3^ in lengthy head 4 to 4^, 

 not much longer than high : eye rather small, one-fifth of tbe length of the bead 

 and I that of the snout : suborbitals narrow. Anterior rays not much produced, 

 shorter than the head ; caudal forked. Origin of ventral vertically below the 

 fourth dorsal ray. Pectoral fin not extending to ventrals. There are five 

 longitudinal series of scales between the lateral line and the root of the ventral. 

 Coloration uniform. Scales 7-3S-7 ; dorsal 29; anal 10 mekidioxalis, 52. 



50. BITBALIOHTHYS BUBALUS Agassiz. 

 BuffaJo-Jisli. Small-mouthed Buffalo. High-hacked Buffalo. 



1838 — Catostomus buialus Kirtland, Rept. Zool. Ohio, 1G8. (Not of Rafinesq'ie.) 



Catostomus iuhalus Kirtland, Boston Jouru. Nat. Hist, v, 266, 1845. 



Catostomus huhalus Storer, Synoiisis, 424, 1846. 



Bubalichthys huhalus AgAssiz, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 195, 1855. 



Buhalichthys huhalus Jordan, Fishes of Ind.,222, 1875. 



Bubalichthys hubalus Jordan & Copeland, Check List, 158, 1876. 



Buhalichthys hubalus Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 74, 1877. 



Buhalichthys huhalus Jordan & Gilbert, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 1877. 

 1854 — ? ? Carpiodes taurus Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sci. Art.3, 355. (Not identifiable.) 



?? Buhalichthys laurus Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 193, 1855. 



.? f Buhalichthys tav,ru,s Jordan & Copeland, Ch,eck List, 15S. 1876. 

 18.')4 — If Carpiodes vitulus Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 356. (Notidentifi ible.) 



? ? Bubalichthys i^itulus Agassiz, Au). Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 193, 1855. 



?f Buhalichthys vitulus Jordan & Copeland, Check List, 158, 1876. 



? f Bubalichthys vitulus Jordan & Gilbert, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 187G. 

 1868 — SclciO(jiiathiis uvus GiJNTiiER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. vii, 22. 

 ifi7(j—Icthyobus cyancUus Nelson, Bull. No. 1, Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist. 49. 



Ictliyobiis cyanellus Jordan & Copeland, Check List, 158, 1876. 



Idhi/ohus cyanellus Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 73, 1877. 



Idhijobus cyanellus Jordan & Gilbert, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 1876. 



Jchihyobus cyanellus Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 323, 1878. 

 1877 — Bubalichthys alius NiCLSON, MSS. 



Bubalichthys alius Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 73, 1877. 



Bubalichthys alius JoitDAN, Man. Vert. ed.2d, 324, 1878. 

 1877 — Buhalich\hys bubalinus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix, 50. 



Bubalichthys bnbalinus Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 325, 1878. 



Habitat. — Mississiijpi Valley ; abundant in all the larger streams. 



