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decurved but uot very broad muzzle. Barbels quite long and distinct. 
Thirteen scales in front of the dorsal. Fins well developed ; the first 
developed rays of the dorsal about twice the height of the last. Pale 
olivaceous; sides with a i)lumbeous silvery band, in some specimens 
forming a stripe through eye and snout, and a dark spot at base of 
caudal; cheeks silvery; snout in males red, with numerous dust-like 
tubercles ; specimens iu high spring coloration have the fins largely red. 
Head 4 ; depth 5. D. 8 ; A. 7 ; scales 5-36-3 ; teeth 1, 4-4, 0. L. 3 
inches. Basiii of the Altamaha, Georgia. 
(Xocomis rubrifrons Jordau, Aun. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1876, 330.) 
333. C. hypsiiiotiis Cope. 
Body much stouter, more elevated, and more compressed than in the 
preceding. Head short, broad above, much smaller and more conical 
than in the preceding. Outline of back rather abruptly declining behind 
front of dorsal fin, so that the base of the fin is oblique. Mouth inferior, 
horizontal, small, the maxillary reaching the line of the orbit. Barbels 
small. Eye small, 3i in head. Color silvery, with a double series of 
black specks along the lateral line, and a lateral band of dusted black- 
ish, which passes through eye and snout; males with the fins bright 
red, and the body with a deep violet lustre, as in Minnilus rubricroceus. 
Head3|; depth 4. D. 8; A. 8; scales 5-40-3; teeth 1,4-4, 1. L. 3 
inches. Santee Basin, iu North Carolina and South Carolina. . 
(Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. PMla. 1870, 458; Jordan & Brayton, Bull. U. S. Nat. 
JIus. xii, 1878, 25. Ceratichthys leptocephalus Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 
213, from Salem, N. C., may be the same, but the description is wholly insufficient for 
determination.) 
bh. Teeth one-rowed. 
334. C. dissiiililis (Kirtland) Cope. — Spotted Shiner. 
Body long and slender, little compressed, with long caudal peduncle. 
Head long, rather flat above, the snout somewhat bluntly decurved, pro- 
jecting a little beyond the rather small, horizontal mouth ; lower jaw 
included ; botli jaws with the skin hard iu front, forming a sort of lip 
laterally. Barbel considerably shorter than pupil, maxillary uot reach- 
ing nearly to orbit. Eye very large, high ui), somewhat directed up- 
ward, rather behind the middle of the head, forming more than one- 
third the length of the head. Opercle small. Dorsal rather large, its 
j)Osterior border oblique; anal small; caudal well forked; imctoral 
rather long. Scales rather large, 22 in front of dorsal. Lateral line 
nearly straight. Olivaceous ; sides silvery, with a bluish lateral baud, 
which is widened into several dusky spots, formed by dark punctulal ions, 
