190 CONTRICUTIOXS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



rather below pupil, maxillary reaching beyond front of orbit. Lateral 

 line somewhat decurved. Nineteen scales iu front of dorsal. Dorsal in- 

 serted somewhat behind veutrals. Females plain olivaceous. Males 

 dark steel-blue, a dark lateral baud of coaly punctulations, which is 

 usually distinct on the anterior part of the body, and passes through 

 the eye around the snout ; tins all rich, clear red, the dorsal crimson, 

 the caudal pink, the lower fins scarlet ; head pale red, the lower jaw 

 flushed as if bloody ; eyes bluish or flushed with red ; a lustrous streak 

 along sides; silvery below. In high coloration the whole body is more 

 or less red. Males with the head and antedorsal region dusted with 

 fine white tubercles. Head 4 ; depth 4J. D. 8 ; A. 9 ; scales 7-38-3 ; 

 teeth 2, 4-4, 2, the edges of the grinding surface often serrate. L. 2^ 

 inches. Headwaters of the Tennessee and Savannah Eivers. A sur- 

 passingly beautiful little fish, abounding in rock-pools at the foot of 

 cascades. 



{Hijhopsis riibricroceiis Cope, Jonru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868, 231 : Hijdroplilox nibri- 

 croceus Jordan & Bray ton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii, 32, 1878.) 



366. M. IiitipiBSSiis Jordan & Brayton. 



Body stout and rather strongly comj^ressed, the dorsal region some- 

 what elevated, the outline of the back sloj^ing each way from the dorsal 

 fin. Head short and rather deep, broad and flatfish above, the muzzle 

 moderately rounded. Eye rather large, 3| in head. Mouth rather large, 

 but smaller than in the preceding, quite oblique, the maxillary reaching 

 to orbit. Mandible included. Eighteen scales in front of dorsal. In 

 life clear olive, with very intense green dorsal and vertebral lines ; an 

 intense metallic blackish band along sides ; below this the sides are 

 bright silvery ; the whole body in the males bright, clear red, the color 

 of red berries; fins all bright golden yellow ; tip of lower jaw black. 

 Head 4^; depth 4^. D. 8; A. 8; scales 7-40-3; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. L. 3 

 inches. Oconee Kiver, Georgia. 



{Hydrophlox lutqnnitis Jordan & Brnyton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii, 36, 1878.) 



267. M. claloroccpSialus (Cope) Jor. & Gilb. 



Body stout, with deep caudal peduncle. Head broad, with descend- 

 ing muzzle. Mouth oblique, the maxillary reaching beyond line of orbit, 

 premaxillary opposite lower margin of pupil. Eye large, 3 in head. 

 Interorbital space greater than muzzle. Lateral line moderately de- 

 curved. Sixteen scales in front of dorsal. Color olivaceous, every- 

 where dusted with blackish specks, which form a lateral band, which 

 terminates in a dusky spot at base of caudal ; green vertebral and lat- 



