Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 281 



abruptly milky white ; head pale reddish ; snout, tip of lower jaw, and 

 iris scarlet ; dorsal dusky at base, the usual large black blotch above, red 

 in front, and broadly milk-white at tip ; tips of caudal milk-white, next 

 to this a dusky crescent, a wide crescent of bright scarlet inside of the 

 black, extending into the two lobes of the tin; base of caudal pale; 

 anterior region and sides of caudal peduncle with rather large tubercles. 

 Females duller. Length 3J inches. Santee Basin ; very abundant, the 

 most ornate of our Cyprinidw. (n-tp, fire ; ^kloQ, black.) 



Phologeiiin pi/rrhomelas, CopE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1870, 4G3, Catawba River, North 



Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 

 CodomapyrrJiomelas, Jordan & Brayton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 22, 1878. 

 Cliola pijrrhomelas, Jordan & Gilrert, Synopsis, 184, 1883. 



455. NOTROPIS GARMAM, Jordan. 



Head 4+; depth 2f. D. 8; A. 11; scales 7-38-3; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. Body 

 deep, much compressed, the back arched. Head small ; snout shorter than 

 eye; maxillary not reaching eye ; pectorals not reaching ventrals, the lat- 

 ter to anal; caudal deeply forked; scales much deeper than long. Brownish 

 above, sides rosy or silvery ; cheeks silvery, a brownish band from nape 

 to pectorals ; lower fins salmon color ; caudal reddish. Length 3 inches. 

 Tributaries of Lago del Muerte, Coahuila. (Garman.) (Named for Sam- 

 uel Garman, the accomplished ichthyologist of the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology.) 



CiiprineUarvhripinna, Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zobl., viii, 91, 1881, Lago del Muerte. 

 NolropU garmani, Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 813, 1885, (substitute loT i-idiripiiiiia). 

 CUola rubrijnmm, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 884, 1883. The name ruhripiiDiis ha^ been twice 

 earlier used in Notropis. 



Subgenus LUXILUS, Kafinesque. 

 456. JTOTROPIS CORNUTUS* (MitchiU). 

 (Shiner ; Ked-fin ; Dace.) 

 Head 4^; depth 3i, varying much with age; eye 4 to 5. D. 8; A. 9; 

 scales 6-41-3; teeth 2, 4-4, 2, with rather narrow grinding surface. Body 



*We adopt the specific name cormitua for this species, as the first preliminary notice by Dr. 

 MitcLill, in which the species is named Ci/prinns coi-nutu:s, is sufficient for its identification. This 

 was published in July or August, l.sl7. lu December, 1817, the same species was described by 

 liafinesque as Cijprbai!< meiiakijM, and in February, 1818, Dr. Mitchill gives a detailed account call- 

 ing it Cypritms cormdiix. The following is the preliminary notice of the Fishes of the Wallkill 

 Kiver, Amer. Monthly Mag., i, 1817, '^80, July : 



Transactions or Learned Societies. — Lyceum of Natural History. 



SiUmg of Jtdi/ 7, 1S17. — Dr. Benjamin Akerly presented several specimens offish, which he had 

 obtained in Wallkill Creek, and which appeared to bo uudescribed species. 



Silting of Ji'hi lU, 1S17. — Dr. Jlitchill made a detailed report on the ichthyology of the Wall- 

 kill, froni the specimens of fishes presented to the Society at tlie last meeting by Dr. B. Akerly 

 in behalf of the committee of exploration. They consisted of several sorts of 



Ctprinus, or Carp. 



1. The Corporal, or C. corporulis, a splendid silvery fish inhabiting that stream, the sturgeon [?] 

 of Albany and the western waters. (New.) 



2. TheMudfish, or C. alronusus, so called from his having a black stripe from tail to head, and 

 encompassing the nose. (New.) 



3. The Ked-fin, or C. cortmUo:, having elegant scarlet fins and knobs, or long protuberances over 

 the head. (New.j Silurus, or Catfish. 



1. The common Silure, or American S. caliis ; a steady inhabitant of our fresh rivers and ponds. 



2. The frog Silure, or S. yi/rinus ; having but a single dorsal fin, and a lanceolate tail resembling 

 that of a tadpole when full grown. (New.) 



Labrus. 



1. The Sunfish, or L. anritns, with the scarlet fins to the gill covers. 



2. The Brown Labre, or Labrus appeiuUx. ; s-o caUed from the black appendages to the gill covers, 

 broader and longer than the preceding species, and with various other marks of difference. (New.) 



Esnx OR Pike. 

 1. The white-bellied Shilli-fish [Killi-fisli], or K-iox pivcicnlus, of his memoir on the fishes of New 

 York. The description by himself and the drawings by Dr. B. Akerly, are all completed. 



