280 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Cliola carmira, Jordan & Meek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 474, Arkansas River, Fort 

 Lyon, Colorado. (Type, No. 12256. Coll. Dr. E. Palmer.) 



452. XOTROPIS X.ENURUS (Jordan.) 



Head 4; depth 3| ; eye large, 3i in head. D. 8; A. 10; scales 6-39-3; 



teeth 1, 4-4, 1. Body moderately elongate, subfusiform, heavy forward. 



Head heavy, somewhat elongate, rounded above. Month large, oblique, 



the lower jaw included; maxillary reaching almost to orbit; premaxil- 



lary on level of upper part of pupil. Fins all rather low, the height of 



the dorsal fin, even in males, only two-thirds length of head ; caudal fin 



large. Color dark steel-blue ; silvery below ; a faint black spot at base 



of caudal ; scales above dark-edged ; males with the fins mostly bright 



crimson ; the dorsal largely black at its upper posterior part ; dorsal, 



anal, and caudal fins with white pigment; belly and bases of lower fins 



likewise pigmented ; head and caudal peduncle tuberculate in spring. 



Length 3 inches. Altamaha Basin, Georgia ; locally abundant, (iaivu, 



to scratch ; oi<pd, tail.) 



Miniiihts rxmims, Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1877,79, Ocmulgee River, Flat Shoals, 



Georgia. (Type, No. 17862. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Codoma xmiiira, Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xn, 52, 1878. 

 Cliola xxtmra, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 184, 1883. 



453. NOTROPIS HTPSELOPTERUS (Giinther). 



Head 4i; depth 4; eye 3. D. 8; A. 11; scales 6-35-3; teeth 1,4-4, 1. 

 Body short, much compressed, the back elevated. Head short, flattened 

 above, the muzzle pointed. Mouth large, very oblique, the jawg just 

 equal. Eye large, about equal to snout and to interorbital space. 

 Scales with the exposed surfaces very narrow. Lateral line much 

 decurved ; 16 large scales before dorsal. Dorsal fin inserted entirely 

 behind ventrals, greatly elevated, its longest ray a little longer than 

 head ; anal fin also very high and very long, extending almost to base of 

 caudal ; these fins somewhat lower in females. Color silvery ; the dorsal 

 blotch conspicuous ; a distinct black caudal spot, smaller than eye and 

 deeper than long ; sides with a silvery band which passes around the 

 nose, below this a dusky band. Breeding colors unknown. Length 2i 

 inches. Southern Georgia and Alabama, {v frjAo^ , high ; Trrepov , ^n.) 



AlhurmiK formostis, Putnam, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, 9, 1863, Mobile, (not Moniana formosa, 



Girard). 

 Lmciseits hupselopleiim, Gi'NTHER, Cat., vil, 255, 1868, Mobile; substitute for /omiwHS, preocu- 



pied. (Coll. Thos. Moore.) 

 Phologenis grandipinnis, Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 62, 1877, Flint River, Georgia. 



(Type, No. 9290. Coll. Hugh M. Neisler.) 

 Cliola hypseh>ptera, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 184, 1883. 



454. NOTROPIS PTRRHOMELAS (Cope). 



Head 4 ; depth 3f ; eye large, 3. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 6-35-3 ; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. 

 Body deep and compressed. Head stout, rather blunt. Mouth oblique, 

 the jaws about equal; maxillary reaching front of orbit. Pectorals 

 barely reaching ventrals, the latter to anal ; dorsal fin greatly elevated, 

 its height in male as great as length of head ; caudal very broad and 

 long, its peduncle stout and compressed ; anal fin large and long. Color- 

 ation of males dark steel-blue above ; the scales darker-edged ; belly 



