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scarcely reaching orbit. Yellowisli above, much speckled, sides with a 

 broad dark plumbeous band, overlaid with rather large brown spots, most 

 numerous and distinct posteriorly ; base of anal with row of specks; fins 

 plain, with dusky specks. Length 2 inches. Hunter Creek, Houston, 

 Texas. Perhaps a variety of i\r. rftZ(-c<«s. (/m/hcms, smoky.) 



NotrnjUs fiiiiieuK, EvERMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xi, 1891, (May 25, 1892), 81, Hunter Creek, 

 Houston, Texas. (Type, No. 45558. Coll. Evormann, Scovcll, A- Gurley); Evermann & 

 & Kondall, Bull. TJ. S. Fish Comm., xn, 1892 (1894), 103, pi. xviii, lig. 1. 



489, NOTROPIS RUBRIFRONS (Cope). 



Head 4 ; depth 4f; eye 4. D.8; A. 10 ; scales 5-39-3, those before dorsal 

 large, 15 to 17 in number. Teeth 2, 4-4, 2, little hooked, one of them some- 

 times showing a slight grinding surface. Body moderately elongate, the 

 back scarcely elevated, the caudal peduncle somewhat contracted. Head 

 longer than in most related species, conic and rather pointed. Mouth 

 rather large, very oblique, upper lip above line of middle of pupil, max- 

 illary reaching to opposite eye. Eye moderate, anterior, usually shorter 

 than the sharp snout. Olivaceous above ; scales with darker edges ; sides 

 silvery; a dark vertebral line; a row of dark dots along base of anal; 

 males with the snout tuberculate in spring, the forehead, opercular region, 

 and base of dorsal being then flushed with red. Length 2| inches. New 

 York and western Pennsylvania to southern Michigan, Kansas, and 

 Kentucky ; very abundant in clear streams, especially in the Ohio Val- 

 ley. An elegant species, smaller than aiherinoides, with larger head and 

 deeper body. It will probably be found, to grade into N. dihctus, but 

 in all specimens examined the eye is larger* in dilectus, the snout shorter 

 and more blunt, (j-ither, red; frons, forehead.) 



AWumus mbrifrons, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 85, Kiskiminitas River, a tribu. 



tary of Alleghany River. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Albtiniellds iiirrnhiotiiiis,',t'ovy., Hayden's Geol. Surv. Wyom. for 1870, 440, 1871, Missouri River 



at St. Joseph, Missouri. 

 Alhurnellm riibrifroiis. Cope, Cypr. Penn., 388, 1866. 

 Lmcisciisfruhiifrons, GCntuer, Cat., vil, 225, 1868. 

 Miniiilm rubri/rons, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 202, 1883. 

 Minnilus percobromus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 202, 1883. 



490. NOTROPIS PHOTOGEMS (Cope). 



Head 4i ; depth 5^ ; eye 3. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 6-40-3. Body slender, 

 compressed, the form similar to that of X. rubrifroii>i. Head moderate. 

 Mouth quite oblique, lower jaw scarcely projecting ; maxillary about 

 reaching'orbit. Back broad. Dorsal fin inserted behind middle of body, 

 a. little behind ventrals. Scales before dorsal 25. Lateral line«decurved. 

 Eye larger than in N. ruhrifrons. Color olivaceous, with brown vertebral 

 and dorsal lines : sides and below, bright silvery, with dark specks along 

 the lateral line; none along base of' anal. Length 3 inches. Alleghany 

 region, thus far recorded only from the Youghiogheny and Kanawha, 

 unless X. amanus should i)rove to be a variety of it. The latter is stouter, 

 with larger eye, and has dark dots along base of anal. Var. engraulinus, 



