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tioa here drawn up from the- types. Lower Arkansas River basin, prob- 

 ably not distinct from Xotropis sJmmardi. (illecebrosiis, enticing.) 



Alburuops iUecehrosma, Giraud, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 194, Arkansas River, Fort 

 Smith, Arkansas. (Type No. 66. Coll. Dr. Shumard) ; Gibakd, Pac. R. R. Surv. x, 2C2, 

 pi. 57, figs. 5-8, 1858. 



Minnilus shumardi, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 192, 1883 (in part). 



428. NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS (DeWitt Clinton). 



(Spawn-eater ; Spot-tailed Minnow ; Shiner.) 



Head 4f ; depth 4 ; eye 3. D. 8 ; A. 8 ; scales 5-39-i ; teeth 1, 4-4, or 1, 

 or 2. Body elongate, considerably compressed in the adult. Head quite 

 short. Muzzle blunt, decurved, shorter than the very large eye. Mouth 

 moderate, nearly horizontal, the jaws nearly equal, the maxillary nearly 

 reaching to the eye. Lateral line nearly straight, slightly decurved ante- 

 riorly. 18 scales before dorsal. Pectorals not reaching ventrals, the latter 

 not to vent. Coloration very pale, with usually a dusky or black spot at 

 base of caudal, especially in the young ; sides with a broad, silvery band, 

 Avhich is sometimes dusky. Length 4 to 6 inches. The Dakotas and 

 Lake Superior to New York, and southward to South Carolina; abundant 

 in the Great Lakes, and not rare east of the Alleghany Mountains; a large 

 and handsome minnow, the choice "live bait" of the St. Lawrence 

 River angler. The typical form, hudsonius, in the Lower Great Lakes 

 and the Hudson, Susquehanna, and other northeastern rivers, has 

 the head short, 4| in length; eye 3| in head, as long as the blunt snout; 

 mouth less oblique than in selene, more so than in amarus; maxillary not 

 reaching front of eye ; caudal spot jet-black. Teeth 2, 4-4, 1. Specimens 

 apparently referable to hudsonius rather than to amarus occur in the Poto- 

 mac, and in streams even so far south as South Carolina, but the bounda- 

 ries of hudsonius, amarus, and saludamis are hard to fix. 



Clnpea hudsonia, DeWitt Clinton, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1, 49, 1824, Hudson River. 

 Hudsonitis Jluviatilis, Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 210, Hudson River. (Type, No. 



14. Coll. Baird.) 

 Hybopsii hudmnim, Cope, Cypr. Penn., 386, 1866. 

 Leucisctis hudsonms, Gunther, Cat., vil, 250, 1868. 

 Cliola hudsoma, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 171, 1883. 



Represented in Lake Superior by 



42Sa. NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS SELENE (Jordan). 



With the head very short, 4f in body, the mouth quite oblique, the pro- 

 maxillary on level of lower part of pupil; snout * eye; maxillary reach- 

 ing front of eye. Caudal spot jet-black. Teeth 2, 4-4, 2 or 1. (arj^vT}, 

 the moon.) 



Liixilus selmie, Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 60, 1877, Lake Superior, Bayfield, Wiscon- 

 sin. (Coll. Jlilncr. ) 

 Minnilus selnie, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 188, 1883. 



