138 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY — III. 



20. :MINYTKE.MA MELANOPS {Eajincsque) Jordan. 

 Striped Suchir. Sand Suclcci: 



1820 — Catostomvs meJauops Rakinksqck, Ich. Ob. 57. 



Catostomua mdanopsis Kiiitland, Zool. Ohio, 1(58, 1838. 



Caiostomua melanopa Kirtland, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 271, 1845. 



Calontomus melanopa Stoker, Synopsis, 424, 184G. 



I'lychostomua melanopa Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 204, 18C5. 



Piyclwatomua melanopa Cope, Proc. Am. Philoa. Soc. Pbila. 478, 1870. 



Erimyzon melanopa Jordan, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist. 95, 187G. 



Erimyzon melanopa Jordan, Man. Vert. 294, 187G. 



Erimyzon melanopa Nelson, Bull. No. 1, Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist. 48, 187G. 



Erimyzon melanopa Jordan & Copeland, Check List, 157, 1876. 



Erimyzon melanopa Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi, 347, 1877. 



Minytrema melanopa Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 318, 1878. 

 1844 — Catoatomua faaciaiua (Le Sukur MSS.) Cuvier «S:, VALENClEieNES, Hist. Nat. des 

 Poissons, xvii, 449. 



Catoatomua faaciatua Storer, Synopsis, 42G, 184G. 



Catoatomua faadatua GOnther, Cat. Fishes Brit, Mus. vii, 19, li^'GS. 

 1856 — Moxoatoma riUoria; Giraiid, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Pbila. 171. 



Moxoatoma fjc/ona; Girard, U. S.Tklex. Bound. Surv. Icbth. 35, pi. xx, f. 1-3, 1859. 

 185G — Ptychoatomua haydeni Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Pbila. 172. 



rtychoalomua haydini Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl. x, 220, pi. xlix, f. 1-4, 1858. 



Teretnliia haydaii Jordan & Copeland, Check List, 157, lfc7G. 

 1877 — Terctulua anectta Jordan & Gilbert, in Klippart's Rept. Fish Commr. Ohio, 53. 

 (Supposed to bo C. aucefia Lac6p^de, as it was perhaps in part the C. auceti 

 of Cuv. & Val. and of Bosc.) 



Erimyzon aucetta Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas. x, 35, 1877. 



IlAniTAT.— Great Lnke Region to South Carolina and Texas. 



This tisb, although a very abuiulaut cue iu the Mi^isissii)!)! Uasin, 

 seem.s to Iiave beeu overlooked by most recent writers. Katiuesquo 

 described it rather poorly. Dr. Kirtland was able to recognize the fish 

 from Kalinesque's account, and has given a very good description and 

 an indillVront ligure. Valenciennes described it fairly, and Agassiz 

 seems to have been acijuainted with it, although, deceived by its exter- 

 nal :ii)p( ar.iiice, be took it for a Myxostoma [Ptychostomus). Girard next 

 de.scribetl and figured it as two species, belonging to two diflerent genera. 

 Professor Cope, for some reason, did not obtain it in any of his collec- 

 tions, and seems to have had much dilliculty iu identifying Kirtland'a 

 account. Jn ]S7.~), the writer, noticing certain resemblances to Erimyzon 

 oblonr/us, was led to dissi'ct a number of individuals, and found that the 



