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than ill the next, about 4 in length: eye ahont equal to snout, fii in head, niueh 

 smaller than in //. hiihalna : month large, considerably oblique, opening well for- 

 wards : mandible longer than eye : dorsal fin lower and less rapidly depressed 

 than in the next, the longest ray scarcely half the length of the base of the fin ; 

 anal fin rounded, its rays not rapidly shortened, the middle ones not much shorter 

 than the longest: colors very dark; tins all black: scales 8-41-7; dorsal, 30; 



anal, 10 URUS, 51. 



••* Mou;h small, inferior, slightly corrugated: depth ;5| to 3^ in lengthy head 4 to 4|, 

 not much longer than high : eye rather small, one-lifth of the length of the head 

 and J that of the snout : suborbitals narrow. Anterior rays not much produced, 

 shorter than the head ; caudal forked. Origin of ventral vertically below the 

 fourth dorsal ray. Pectoral tin not extending to ventrals. There arc live 

 longitudinal series of scales between the lateral line and the root of the ventral. 

 Coloration uniform. Scales 7-3S-7 ; dorsal 29; anal 10 mkuidionalls, 52, 



50. BrTBALICHTHTS BCTBALUS Agassiz. 

 Biiffah-Jiiih. Small-mouthed Buffalo. Jligh-hackcd Buffalo. 



1838 — Catostoniua bubalu8 Kirtland, Rept. Zool. Ohio, 1G8. (Not of Rafincsque.) 



Calostomus bubalus Kirtland, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 2GG, 1845. 



Catoatomua bubalua Storkr, Synopsis, 424. 1846. 



Bubaliohfhya bubalua Agassiz, Am. Jonrn. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 195, 1855. 



Bubalichthya buhalus Jordan, Fishes of Ind.,222, 1875. 



Buhaliclillnja bubalua JoitDAN & Copeland, Check List, 158, 1876. 



Bubalichthya bubalua Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 74, 1877. 



Bubalichthya bubalua Jordan & Gilbert, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 1877. 

 1854— f f Carpiodcs iaurua Aga.ssiz, Am. Journ. Sci. Art.s, 355. (Not identifiable.) 



f f Bubalichthya Iaurua Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 193, 1855. 



ff Bubalichthya tattrua Jordan & Copeland, Check List, 15H. 1876. 

 18'i4— ?,' Carpiodcs vitulua Ar.ASSiz, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 356. (Not identifi ible.) 



?i' Bubalichthya vilulua Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 193, 185a. 



ff Btubalichthya vitulua Jordan & Copeland, Check List, 158, 1876. 



ff Bubalichthya vitulua Jordan Sc Gilbert, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 187C. 

 \^C)i^—Sclcrofiiiaihu8 urus GOntmer, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. vii, 22. 

 iH7C) — Iclhyobua cyancllua Nel.son, Bull. No. 1, Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist. 49. 



Icttiyobua cyancllua Jorda.n & Copeland, Check List, 158, 1876. 



InbyobuH cyancllua JoitDAX, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 73, 1877. 



Idhyobua cyancllua Jokdan & GiLHWtT, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 1876. 



Ichlhyobua cyancllua Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 323, 1878. 

 li-'. 7 — BiibaluhthyH altua Ni:i.so.\, MSS. 



Bnbaluhlhya alius .Iordan, Proc, Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 73, 1877. 



Bubalichthya altua Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 324, 1878. 

 lf^7 — Bnbalich.hya hubalinua Jordan, Bull. IJ. S. Nat. Mus. ix, 50. 



Btilvlichlhya hubalinua Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 325, 1H78. 



Hauit.vt.— Mibsissippi Valley ; abundant in all the larger streamB. 



