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Kepresented southward by 



394a. ABKAMIS CUySOLKUCAS BOSCI (Cuvier & Yalenciounes). 



Head 4*^; depth 3i; eye 3. D. 8 ; A. 15 to 17; scales 8-43 to 50-2; teeth 

 5-5. Scales larger, the aual fin more elongate, and the male with brighter 

 colors. Body moderately elevated, very strougly compressed ; head rather 

 broad and flat between the eyes ; mouth small, quite oblique, the maxil- 

 lary barely reaching the eye; eye very large and prominent, anterior. 

 Dorsal fin short and very high, almost falcate, well back; anal fin high 

 and long. Scales rather large, the lateral line running very low. Color 

 pale olive, with silvery luster; lower fins red in the males in spring, 

 Length 12 inches. Rivers of the South Atlantic States ; abundant from 

 the James to the Altamaha and St. Johns ; intergrading with the typical 

 form. (Named for M. Bosc,a French naturalist and collector, consul at 

 Charleston toward the end of the eighteenth century.) 



ieiicisciis to.sci, CcviER & Valenciennes, xvii, 313, 1S44, Carolina; Pennsylvania; NewYork. 

 Cyprinus americanus, LiNN.Tics, Syst. Nat., Ed. xii, 530, 17CG, Charleston ; not of Ed. x. 1758, 



which is Meulicirrhiis. 

 Notemigonns iM'haniis^ Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1876, 304, South Fork Ocmulgee 



River, Flat Shoals, Georgia. (Type, Nos. 178G5 and 20112. Coll. Jord.au.) 

 Nolemigomis americuiius^ .Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 250, 1883. 



39.5. ABRA.MIS GARDOXEUS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head 5i ; depth 3| ; eye 4 in head. D. 10; A. 9 ; teeth 5-5, with grind- 

 ing surface and serrated edge ; scales 7-39-3. Body moderately elongate, 

 compressed. Head obtuse. Isthmus narrow. Mouth small, oblique, the 

 lowerjaw included. Dorsal nearly midway of body, little behind ventrals. 

 Olivaceous. South Carolina; one specimen known, perhaps a hybrid 

 between A. cry-soleucas and some other fish. (Gardon, a French name of 

 the Koach, liutUits rutihin.) 



Leuciscus gardoneus, Cuvier & Valencienne.s, xvii, 316, 1844, Charleston; Gi'NTiiF.ii, Cat., vii, 



258, 1868. 

 Chondrostoma gardonettm, Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Sec. Pliila., 1866, 395. 

 Notemigonns gardoneits, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 250, 1883. 



121. COCHLOGNATHUS, Baird & Girard. 



Corhlogtinlhna, Baird it Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1854, 158, {oriniliis). 



This genus has the general character and appearance of Cliola and 

 Fimephales, the dentition and the structure of the fins being the same; 

 the teeth, however, are rather more strougly hooked and with deeper 

 grinding surface. It difiers in the structure of the jaws, which are pro- 

 vided each with a hard cutting plate, in appearance similar to that of 

 DiorfoH, the sharp, bony edge being surrounded by the usual lip. First 

 ray of dorsal separated by membrane, and spine-like, as in Clioht and 

 Pimephales. Alimentary canal short. Peritoneum white. Pseudo 

 branch i;e present. Lateral line complete. Anal fin small. Spring males 

 ■with tubercles and dark pigment as in Pimephahs. We place this genus 

 and CJiola in the neighborhood o( Xotrojns, on account of the shortness of 

 the intestines, but it is likely that their real relations are with Pime- 

 phales, and that the reduction in the length of the alimeiitaiy canal is a 



