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band, which is widened into several dusky spots, formed by dark punctu- 

 latious, and most distinct posteriorly ; a dusky band on head, through 

 eyes and snout ; fins plain. Length 3 to 4 inches. Lake Erie to the head- 

 waters of the Tennessee, west to Arkansas and Iowa; rather common in 

 the river channels, {dmimilis, not similar, to other shiners.) 



Luj:llns dissimilis, Kirtland, Bust. Journ. Nat. Hist., Iil, 1840, 311, pi. IV, fig. 2, Mahoning 



River, Ohio, and Lake Erie, near Cleveland. 

 Ceraticlilhiis dissiinilis, Ooi'K, Cypr. Poun., 3G7, 1860; Guntiier, Cat., vii, 177, 1808; Joudan & 



GiLiiEET, Synopsis, 215, 1883. 



529. HTBOPSIS WATAUGA, Jordan & Evermanu. 



Head 4^; depth 5i to b. D. 7; A. 7; scales 5-48 to 52-4, 20 to 24 before 

 dorsal ; teeth 4-4, small, hooked, with slight grinding surface. Body more 

 elongate than in H. disnimilis, the scales smaller and the coloration less 

 variegated. Olivaceous, with a bluish lateral stripe not so wide as eye 

 passing around snout; on this stripe 8 to 12 blackish spots, diffuse and 

 smaller than eye, one of these at base of caudal ; a dark speck on front 

 of opercle; fins plain. Length 4 inches. Known from Holston River, 

 Virginia; Watauga River, Tennessee; White River, Arkansas ; Big Barren 

 River, Kentucky ; and Tippecanoe River, Indiana; probably abundant and 

 apparently replacing H. fZissimi^is in mountain streams ; size usually larger 

 than in H. dissimilis. 



Hybopsis walauga, Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 355, Watauga River, Eliz- 

 abethtown, Tennessee ; North Fork Holston River, Saltville, Virginia. (Type, 

 No. 39929. Coll. Jordan, Jenkins, & Evermaun.) Woolman, Bull. U. S. Fish Comni., xii, 

 1892, 258. 



Subgenus HYBOPSIS. 



530. HYBOPSIS LABROSUS (Cope). 



Head 4i: depth 4^-, D. 8; A. 7; scales 5-34 to 40-3; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. 

 Body long and slender, little compressed. Head rather long, narrow, and 

 pointed, very slender in young specimens, stouter in adults. Snout 

 decurved in profile, long, overhanging the large mouth ; lips much thick- 

 ened, the lower with an internal fringe of papillae ; barbels extremely 

 long, more than half diameter of eye. Eye moderate, nearly median, ^\ 

 in head. Scales moderate, closely imbricated, 16 in front of dorsal. Fins 

 rather small; caudal deeply forked, its peduncle long and slender. Males 

 dark steel blue, with black markings on back and especially at base of 

 dorsa. ; females very pale silvery, with a blue streak along sides of tail. 

 A small round black spot at base of caudal ; a dark lateral streak, obso- 

 lete anteriorly ; large specimens with a large dark patch on the last rays 

 of the dorsal, as in Kotropis toliipplii ; base of the caudal with dark points . 

 males in spring with the head and neck profusely tubercnlate and the fins 

 flushed with crimson. Length 3 inches. Basin of the Santee, in North 

 and South Carolina ; common. (Zafcrosi^s, thick-lipped.) 



Cerotichllms labronus, CoPE, Proc. Anier. Phil. Soc, 1870, 458, tributaries of Catawba River, 

 McDowell and Burke counties. North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 



Ceratichthi/s zaneinus, Jordan & Brayton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1878, 24, Saluda River, 

 Greenville, North Carolina. (Type, No. 31126. Coll. Jordan & Brayton.) 



Ceratichthi/s labrosns and zancmus, Jordan it Gilbert, Synopsis, 217, 1883. 



