296 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Cope, from tlio KanaAvha is slenderer, the depth 6 in length, the head 3f. 

 (^wf, light; ytvfiov, cheek.) 



'iHuHlvs compresms, Kafinesque, Ich. Oh., 51, 1820, Monongahela River, etc. ; not iilentifia- 



ble ; may be N. comuius. 

 Squalius phologenix, CoPE, Pl-oc, Ac. Nat. Sii. Pliila., IStU, 2S0, Youghiogheny River, Penn. 

 Photogenw leiicops, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1807,104., Sinking Creek, and near Aus- 



tinville, Va. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Pliotogenis tmwops engraiiUtin.% Cope, I. c, 1867, ICl, tributaries of Kanawha River, Austin- 



ville, Va. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Leuciscus phologetiis, Gi'NTJiER, Cat.,vii, 252, 1808. 



491. NOTROPIS AM(EXrS (Abbott). 



Head 4 ; depth 5i, (4| to 5i) ; eye 3^. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 6-39-3. Close 

 to J^^'ofrojns ruhrifrons, but the scales before dorsal smaller, as in X plwio- 

 genis. Body elongate, compressed ; eye large, longer than snout. Mouth 

 large, oblique, the jaws subequal, the maxillary to front of eye ; 22 to 25, 

 (rarely 18 to 20) scales before dorsal; lateral line much decurved. Dorsal 

 high, behind ventrals ; pectorals moderate. Translucent green, sides 

 silvery, with sometimes a faint plumbeous band ending in an obscure 

 plumbeous spot. Length 3i inches. Clear streams east of the Alleghanies 

 from the Earitan to the Neuse ; abundant ; formerly confounded with 

 N. photogenis, of which it may be a A^ariety. {amoenus, attractive.) 



Albm-nellus anurmis, Abbott, Amer. Nat., Tin, 1874, 334, Raritan River, New Jersey. 

 Notropis anmnus, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xiii, 1888, (1891), 102. 



492. NOTROPIS SCEPTICUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 3S; depth 4*; eye 3. D. 8; A. 10; scales 6-38-3; teeth 2,4-4, 1. Body 

 short and deep, compressed and somewhat elevated. Head rather large, 

 deep, bluntish. Mouth moderate, terminal, oblique, lower jaw slightly 

 included ; upper lip opposite middle of eye ; maxillary extending to front 

 of orbit. Eye very large, longer than snout; interorbital space broad, 

 flatfish. Lateral line much decurved. Scales before dorsal large, in 13 to 

 15 rows. Fins moderate ; dorsal well behind ventrals ; tips of ventrals 

 extending to last dorsal ray ; caudal peduncle moderate. Coloration very 

 pale green ; sides with a bright silvery band ; scales with very little dark 

 edging ; a dark line at base of dorsal ; males in spring with the snout pro- 

 fusely tuberculate. Length 3 inches. Rivers of Carolina from the Cape 

 Fear to the Sautee ; abundant, replacing the allied amoenus, from which it 

 differs in the deeper body and larger nuchal scales. {aKETTTLKog, observant, 

 from the large eye.) 



Notropisphotngcnis, ("pale variety"), Jordan & Bkayton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 23, 1878. 

 Minnilus I'cepluus, Jordan & Giidert, Synopsis, 200, 1883, Saluda River, Greenville, South 

 Carolina. (Type, No. 31081. Coll. Jordan & Braytou.) 



493. NOTROPIS MICROPTERYX (Cope). 



Head 4i ; depth 5i ; eye 3^. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 5-38-2. Body very slen- 

 der, compressed; head moderate, rather pointed. Mouth large, oblique; 

 upper lip on level of pupil; maxillary reaching to opposite front of 

 orbit. Eye moderate, about as long as muzzle. Scales large. Lateral 

 line decurved. Fins all quite small, the dorsal farther back than in 

 related species, so that the short ventrals do not reach much beyond its 



