31. CYPRIXID.E — CLIOLA. 179 



spot; probably brilliant iu life. Head 4^; depth 3^. D. 8; A. 9; 

 scales 6-40-4. Sugar-loaf Creek, Arkansas. {Girard.) 



{CijprineUa whipplei Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 198, aud U. S. Pac. R. 

 II. Surv. x,270.) 



yg. Teeth with narrow grinding surface. {Photoijiuia Cope.*) 



2 17. C. analostaiia (Grd.) .J. & G.—SUnr-fin. 



Body moderately elongate, somewhat compressed, the dorsal and ven- 

 tral outlines regularly aud gently arched. Head rather short aud deep. 

 Mouth rather small, quite oblique, the losver jaw received within the 

 ui)per when the mouth is closed. Eye small, 4^ in head. Leaden sil- 

 ver}', bluish in the males; edges of scales dusky; a dark vertebral line; 

 a large black spot on the upj)er posterior j)art of the dorsal. Paired 

 fins aud lower part of belly, as well as the tips of the anal and caudal, 

 and the front and upper parts of the dorsal, charged with clear satin- 

 white pigment in males in the spring ; iu full breeding dress the dorsal 

 pigment with a greenish lustre; no cream j' baud at base of caudal; 

 males with the head and front covered with small tubercles. Head 4^; 

 depth 4. D. 8 ; A. 8 ; scales 5-38-3 ; teeth 1, 4-4, 1, the edges more 

 or less distinctly serrate. L. 4 inches. Pennsylvania and Central New 

 York to Mississippi Valley ; abundant. 



( C'^pr ineiZa ana/ostoMa Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 38: LuxUns hentudci- 

 enuls Kirthind, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 27 (not of Raf. ) : HjipHUepis kenliicklcnsis Cope, 

 C'ypr. Penn. 371: Leadscus analostanus Giiuthcr, vii,2.5G: Fholoijensis ■•n)ilo2)'en()i Copv, 

 Cypr. PiMin. 378: Xe«moH.'( 8jj(7o;>fen(s Giiuther, vii,254.) 



hh. Teetli with entire edges (in tlie adult). (Erogala .Jordan. t) 

 h. Teeth with a narrow grinding surface; anal short. 



248. C g^alacttira (Cope) .J. & G. — Milku-tailed Shiner. 



Body fusiform, moderately elongate, not greatly compressed. Mouth 

 rather large, jaws nearly horizontal, the ujiper projecting beyond tlie 

 lower. Scales less closely imbricated than in the preceding. Lateral 

 line little decurved. Eye small. Steel blue above, silvery below ; dorsal 

 with a black blotch on its posterior rays; caudal fin conspicuously 

 creamy yellow at base, then dusky. Males with the belly, paired fins, 

 aud especially the tips of the vertical fins charged with milk-white pig- 

 ment in the spring, the head and front then covered with small tubercles. 

 In high coloration the anal and caiulal are sometimes pale reddish. Fe- 



*Cope, Cypr. Penn. 1866, 378: type Photogenis dpilopterus Coj}e= Cyprinella analo- 

 siana Grd. {<phg, light; yevvdu, to he horn.) 



t Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mns. xii, 20, 1878: type Photogenis stigmatarus Jor. (//p, 

 spring-time ; ya'/ji, milk.) 



