502 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



with hooks, they are called "Hickory Shad". They are not esteemed 

 very highly as a means for gratifying the palate. This species is 

 reported from the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. 



Family CLUPEID^. 

 Genus CLUPEA, Artedi. 



26. Clupea chrysochloris (Raf.) Jor. (No. 27,453.) 



Fomulobus chrysovhloris, Rafinesque. 



A single specimen of this species has been sent me by Mr. William 

 A. Warner, of Enterprise. 



Genus DOROSOMA, Eaflnesque. 



27. Dorosoma cepedianum (Le S.) Gill. (No. 27,-154.) 



Dorosoma ccpediana, Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1877, 69; subsp. 

 heteruram, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 10, 65. 



Several specimens of this sijecies were caught while seining a deep 

 l^ond along the Noxubee River near Macon. I do not find that the 

 characters assigned by Professor Jordan to the variety lieterurum exist in 

 my specimens, unless it be that of the long filamentous ray of the dorsal 

 fin. Even this distinction does not always hold good, I find no i)artic- 

 ular differences between my largest specimen, 8^ inches long, and a 

 specimen of the same size from the Potomac. 



Family CYPRINIDJE. 

 Genus HYBORHYNCHUS, Agassiz. 



28. Hyborhynchus notatus (Raf.) Ag. (No. 27,441.) 



Hiihorhj/nchus notatus, Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1869, 392. 



A single specimen obtained at Corinth ; many in the waters about 

 Artesia and JVIacon. In their coloration some of the specimens that I 

 obtained are different from any that I have seen from other localities 

 and from any descriptions that have fallen under my eye. These peculi- 

 arities of color are observed only in the largest individuals, those 2J 

 inches in length. Some of these are quite brown, this color being pro- 

 duced by each scale having a black border. The head is blue-black, of 

 varying degrees of intensity, being in some cases almost jet-black. 

 There is a deep black band occupying the whole upper half of the dorsal 

 fin. The greater part of the caudal fin is also black, the base and tip 

 only being light. There is sometimes a black spot near the tip of the 

 posterior rays of the anal fin. In many of these dark-colored specimens 

 the dark lateral band usually seen in this species is either obsolete or 

 indistinct. These highly colored individuals are, no doubt, males in 

 their wedding suits of black. The other party does not dress so gor- 

 geously. 



