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olive above, whitish below ; an intensely dark baud 

 around snout, expanded on opercle, and ending at the 

 base of the caudal in a rhombic-shaped spot. Cheeks, 

 axils of paired tins, and base of anal, bright red. 



The intensely dark lateral band, strong convexity of 

 dorsal outline, teeth and scales, would, if constant, entitle 

 this fish to sub-specific rank. It bears a close resemblance 

 to C. greeni, from Fort St. James, B. C. {vide Bulletin 

 i^atural History Society of B. C, 1893). The strikingly 

 arched character of the anterior dorsal region, in which 

 the head, too, participates, was also observed, but to a 

 less extent, in smaller specimens of C. pliunbeus, and may 

 be a feature of the immature fish ; but this is rather op- 

 posed to the general rule that dorsal convexity increases 

 with age, though cephalic flattening may take place. On 

 the whole there is need of a wide and thorough investi- 

 gation to settle satisfactorily the many obscurities in con- 

 nection with this whole genus."^ 



Phoxinus neogaeus Cope. JSIinnow. 



In 1888 this little cyprinid was first reported from the 

 province b}" the writer, who collected some in a small 

 pond in Maugerville, Sunbuiy County ; and in May, 1893, 

 he described others from Dark Lake, in the vicinity of 

 St. John. In September of that year specimens were 

 taken from Garnett's Lake, a few miles from Loch 

 Lomond, and others were obtained from a small pond 

 near Anagance, Kings County. The Maugerville speci- 

 mens are larger than the Michigan and Iowa fish first 

 described by Prof. E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia, in 1886, 

 being four inches long instead of three. The body is 

 roundish, compressed posteriorly, the profile being nearly 



* While this article was going through the press, the writer took many speci- 

 mens of this variety from the Water Works Lake, some miles from St. John. As the 

 localities are remote and spec mens identical, it would seem to point out this form 

 as a well marked sub-species. 



