300 Bulletin 4J, United States National Museum. 



Further eastward in Illinois and Iowa in prairie brooks occurs 

 498b. NOTUOPIS UMBUATILIS ATRIPES (Jordan). 



Head 4^ ; depth 4 ; eye 4. D. 7 ; A. 11 ; scales 9-52-5. Body very 

 strongly compressed. Head comparatively pointed ; ej'e small, shorter 

 than muzzle. Coloration of body dark bluish, without traces of vertical 

 bars; sides not silvery, the scales dusted with dark punctulations: 

 dorsal with the usual black spot at base in front, smaller than in lythrn- 

 I'us or ardois; a black bar crosses its upper part; anal colored like the 

 dorsal, with a black spot at base in front, the markings paler; ventral 

 fins dusky ; males profusely tuberculate, and doubtless red in spring. 

 Length 3 inches. Southern Illinois and Iowa, fafer, black ; j^cs, foot.) 



LijIJtrnrm alripes, Jordan, Bull. 111. Lab. Nat. Hist, ir, 59, 1878, streams of Union and 



Johnson counties, Illinois. (Type, No. 2(;295. Coll. Forbes.) 

 Mhmibis atri2>('i', Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 197, 1883. 



Represented throughout the Ohio Valley and neighboring regions by 



498c. NOTROPIS rJIBRATILIS LTTHRURUS (Jordan). 



The central type from which the others seem to have diverged. Body 

 moderately elongate, the depth ii in length, the females nearly 5; eye 

 large, about 3^ in head. Scales 9-47-3. Dorsal with a conspicuous 

 black spot in front, the rest of the fin mostly pale; no anal spot. Length 

 3i inches. Ohio Valley and rivers of neighboring states. {Tivftpov, blood; 

 oil pa, tail.) 

 Ji«<i7«s ?H6f)*, Rafinesque, Ich. Oh., 52, 1820, Elkhorn and Kentucky rivers; named but not 



described. 

 Nolropis Itjlhrunis, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 476, White River, Indianapolis, 



Indiana. (Type, No. 20115. Coll. Jordan & Copeland.) 

 Hypsilepis dqilfcmia, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1SG7, 162. 

 Minnilus diplxmius, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 197, 1883; not Semotilm diiilxmius, Kafinesque. 



Represented northward by the deep-bodied 



498d. NOTROPIS UMBRATILIS CTANOCEPHALUS (Copeland). 



Head 4^ ; depth 4 ; eye 3^. D. 8 ; A. 12 ; scales 9-4fi-4 ; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. 

 Body short, stout, chubby, moderately compressed, tLio form resembling 

 that of Pimepliales. Head very short, deep, jcs greatest depth three- 

 fourths its length. Snout blunt, shorter than eye. Eye large, not so 

 wide as the interorbital space. Coloration dark bluish above; sides not 

 silvery; males in spring profusely covered with small tul)ercles; the 

 sides and fins clear, bright red; the back, and especially the top of the 

 head, of a clear glaucous blue ; dorsal in both sexes with a large black 

 spot at the base of its anterior rays, this spot about as largo as eye; 

 dorsal, anal, and veutrals blackish at tip. Length 2:V inches. Rivers of 

 southern Wisconsin, etc. (KiJuyeof, blue; /ceoaA;;, head.) 



Lijlhmrus . cj/anocephalu.'s, Copeland, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., T877, 70, Racine River, 



■Wisconsin. (Type, No. 17857. Coll. Hoy & Copeland.) 

 MinniluK cyanocephalus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 196, 1883. 



* "51st species. Bed Minny, Rutilus'! ruber, Rutile rouge. Entirely red; tail forked. I add 

 liero a fine small fish, which I have never seen as yet, but it is said to live in the small 

 streamo which fall into thi Elkhorn and Kentucky. It is a slender fish, only 2 inches long, 

 compressed, and of a fino purple red. It may belong to this genus, or to any other of this 

 tribe. It is commonly called Red Minny." — Rafinesque. 



