Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of N'orth America. 287 



Head short and rather deep, l)road and flattish above, the muzzle moder- 

 ately rounded. Eye rather large. Mouth rather large, but smaller than 

 in the preceding, quite oblique, the maxillary reaching orbit; mandi- 

 ble included; 18 scales in front of dorsal. In life clear olive, with very 

 intense green dorsal and vertebral lines; an Intense metallic blackish 

 band along sides; below this the sides are bright silvery; the whole body 

 in the males bright, clear red; head and fins all bright golden yellow, 

 with no red; tip of lower jaw black. Length 3 inches. Small clear 

 streams of the pine woods, tributary to the Santee and Oconee rivers; 

 rare, (hitens, yellow; jyiuna, fin.) 



IIiKlrophlnx Jiilipiiinis, Jordan * Bratton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 36, 1878, Oconee River, 



Hall's Springs, Georgia. (Type, No. 31000. Coll. Jordan & Brayton.) 

 Minnilus liitipiunis, JoRiiAN & Gilbert, Synopsis, 190, 1883. 

 Notropis Jutipimm, JORDAN, Bull. XJ. S. Fish Comm., viii, 1888, (1891), 157. 



467. NOTROPIS CHILITICUS (Cope). 



Head 4; depths^; eye large, 3 in head, longer than muzzle. D. 8; A. 8; 

 scales 7-36-2; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. Body elliptical. Head broad l)ehind; occiput 

 convex. Muzzle acuminate, greater than interorbital width. Maxillary 

 extending beyond anterior rim of orbit; premaxillaries opposite middle of 

 pupil; lateral line strongly decurved. Dorsal fin small. Olivaceous, a dis- 

 tinct silvery lateral band; usually a dark caudal spot; dorsal scales brown- 

 edged; males with the lips and snout vermilion; a vermilion band through 

 dorsal and one through anal fin. Length 2 inches. Allied to X. altq)innis, 

 but more slender, with larger mouth. Basin of the Great Pedee River, 

 North Carolina, common in upland streams. (xdTioc, lip.) 

 Hybopsis chiUtlciis, Cope, Proc. Amer. Piiil. Soc. Phila., 1870, 462, Yadkin River, Roane 

 County, North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 



468. NOTROPIS ALTIPINNIS (Cope). 



Head 4| ; depth 3^ ; eye very large, longer than snout, 2t in head. D. 8; 

 A. 9; scales 5-3()-2. Allied to j\\ c/(rt/)/6«'H.s, but more robust in form. Body 

 rather short and deep ; head short, compressed. Ventrals extending to 

 beyond last rays of dorsal, reaching anal. Dorsal elevated, its height 

 equal to half its distance from the snout. Scales before dorsal small. 

 Greenish; a lateral silvery band, strongly punctate with black; a black 

 baud across eye and snout; lower jaw always blackish; young with ^ 

 black caudal spot; no black at base of anal; snout yellowish; vertical 

 fins light reddish in life. Length 2^^ inches. Clear streams of the pine 

 woods, tributary to the Great Pedee and Cape Fear rivers ; abundant. 

 {(iltus, high; pinna, fin.) 



Alhm-ufllns allipimxis, CoPE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1870, 464, Yadkin River, Roane 



County, North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Minnihis aUipinnU, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 19'>, 1883. 



469. NOTROPIS ROSEUS (Jordan). 



Head 4Jt ; depth 4^ ; eye nearly 3. A. 7, never 8, as in the related 

 N. chaJybaus. Scales 5-38-5 ; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. Body short and stout, little 



