31. CYPRINID^ MINNILUS. 
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the dorsal well behind ventrals, the tips of the veutrals extending to 
the last dorsal ray. Caudal peduncle moderate. Coloration very palej 
sides with a bright silvery band ; scales with very little dark edging j 
a dark line at base of dorsal ; males in spring with the snout profusely 
tuberculate. Head ; depth 4. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 0-38-3 ; teeth 2, 
4- 4, 1. L. 3 inches. Saluda Eiver, South Carolina. 
(Notropia photogenis (‘^pale variety”) Jordan & Braytou, Bull. U. S,. Nat. Mus. xii, 
^2, 1878.) 
29§. M. pliotogeuis (Cope) Jor. 
Bodj" more slender, compressed. Head moderate. Mouth quite ob- 
lique, lower jaw scarcely projecting j maxillary about reaching orbit. 
Back broad. Dorsal fin inserted behind middle of body, a little behind 
ventrals. Lateral line decurved. Eye large, 3^ in head. Color oliva- 
ceous, with brown vertebral and dorsal lines j sides and below bright 
silvery 5 cheeks silvery. Head 4^; depth 5^. D. 8; A. lOj scales G-40-3. 
L. 3 inches. Alleghany region, Pennsylvania, to North Carolina, on 
both sides of the mountains j abundant and variable. Var. engraulinus 
Coi)e is slenderer, the depth 6 in length, the head 3|. 
(iSqualius photogenia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1884,280: Photogenis leucopa 
Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci Pliila. 1867, 164 : Leueiacus photogenis Gunther, vii, 252.) 
299. M. telescopiis (Cope) Jor. & Gilb. 
Very near the preceding, but with the dorsal fin inserted about mid- 
way between snout and base of caudal, not much behind ventrals. Eye 
longer than muzzle, 23 in head. Mouth very oblique, mandible not pro- 
jecting. Color iiale greenish ; the scales extensively dark-edged above. 
Head 4^ ; depth 5. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 5-38-3.’ L. 3^ inches. Ten- 
nessee River. 
{Photogenis telescopna Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1867, 165 : Leuciacua teleacopus 
Giiuther, vii, 252.) 
390. ITI. stilbitis Jordan. 
Body rather slender. Head rather long, somewhat pointed. Mouth 
large, oblique, the maxillary reaching to the eye. Eye very large, 
greater than snout and than interoibital width, 3 in head. Fins rather 
high ; the ventrals reaching to opposite the last rays of the dorsal. Color 
pale silvery green ; sides with a broad silvery band, on which are many 
dark i>unctulations ; these are numerous just behind the shoulder-girdle 
and at the base of the caudal, wheie they fornt an evident spot; cheeks 
pure .silvery; lips dusky. Head 41; dei)th 5. D. *8; A. 10; scales 
5- 37-2 ; teeth 2, 4-4, 1. L. 3 inches. Alabama River. 
{^ototropi-'< at'ilbiua doviXim, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1876, 343.) 
