Jordan and Evertnann. — Fishes of N'orth America. G71 



a. Scales large, 24 to 26 in lengthwise series; sides without dark lateral band. 



6. Sides with dark bars in the female, nearly plain in tln^ males; females with black ocel- 

 lus on hist rays of caudal; male with tip of caudal black. 

 c. Body deep, the depth nearly or (juite half length of body in males, the femalesmoro 

 eIon,i;atc. 

 d. Humeral scale* considerably enlarged, 

 e. Dorsal rays usually 11; anal rays 10. 



/. llead moderate, aliout 3}^ in body; male with the back largely blue in 

 life, the lower parts coppery; caudal in male with a dusky bar at 

 tip, the base dusky or pale; unspotted; tips of dorsal dusky. 



VAUIEOATI'S, 985. 

 /. Head larger, about SJ^in body; male with the caudal speckled at base; 

 this followed by a pale bar and a black one; dorsal pale. 



EXIMIUS, 986. 



ae. Dorsal rays 9; anal rays 8; head very large, about 3 in length; coloration 



fliirk. BOviNiis, 987. 



M. Humeral scale little enlarged; dorsal rays 9 toll; head 3 to \\y^ in length; 



depth nearly 2; scales 24 or 1^i. 



g. Anal rays 10 or 11; males dusky, the fins all margined with black; females 



barred with black and usually with black dorsal ocelhis; ventral fins 



often absent. MAiri,Auu;s, 988. 



3!/. Anal rays 13; sides with two lengthwise series of coarse black spots; no 



ventral fins in specimens known. dailevi, 989. 



cc. Body comparatively slender, the depth 2% to 3 in length; dorsal rays 11; anal 10; 



head rather large, 3}^ in length; dorsal spotted or clouded at base. 



ELEffANS, 990. 

 ccc. Body more elongate, the depth nearly 4 in length; dorsal 9; anal 10; scales 26-9. 



MART.T-;, 991. 



66. Sides in males with faint coppery bars and yellow spots; fins tipped with orange; 

 females with oblong blotches of bi-ight orange; no dorsal ocellus, humeral scale 

 not enlarged; depth 2f in length; head 3. D. 11; A. 9; scales 24. carpio, 992. 

 aa. Scales smaller, 30 in a lengthwise series. 



h. Sides without longitudinal stripe, but with six brown cross bands (in male) ; caudal with 

 a black bar at tip and a fainter one at base. D. 12; A. 10. felicianus, 993. 



hh. Sides with a dark horizontal lateral band, bordered on each side by a light band; cau- 

 dal with a narrow dark band at base and a very broad one at tip. D. 12; A. 11. 



LATIFASCIATUS, 994. 



985. CTPBIXODON VABIEGATUS, Lacepede. 

 (Sheepshead Minnow ; Pursy Minnow.) 



Head rather small, 3i to 3? ; depth 2 to 2| ; eye 3^ ; iuterorbital width 

 3 in head. D. 11; A. 10; B. 6; scales 26-13. Body very short and robust, 

 in adults high and much compressed, the females abruptly constricted at 

 base of caudal peduncle ; caudal peduncle rather short and high, rapidly 

 narrowed backward to tail, its greatest height nearly equal to length of 

 head, its least height \ head ; head short, little depressed, narrowed upward 

 and forward, with sharp snout and small mouth ; width of mouth rather 

 less than length of snout ; teeth large, in a single series, consisting of 

 wedge-shaped incisors, much widened toward tips, the cutting edge tri- 

 cuspid ; no villiform teeth ; eye moderate, its diameter longer than man- 

 dible, slightly less than iuterorbital width, about equal to length of snout. 

 Opercle joined by membrane to shoulder girdle from a point slightly above 

 base of pectoral. Intestinal canal long, but not much convoluted, 2| times 



* Character not verified in C. &ovtn«s or in C. elegans. 



