31. CYPRINID^ MINNILUS. 201 



the dorsal well bebiiid ventials, the lips of the ventrals extending to 

 the last dorsal ray. Caudal peduncle moilerate. Coloration very palej 

 Bides with a bright silvery band ; scales with very little dark edging j 

 a dark line at base of dorsal ; males in si)ring with the snout profusely 

 tuberculate. Head3f; depth 4. D. 8; A. 10; scales G-38-3 ; teeth 2, 

 4-4, 1. L. 3 inches. Saluda River, South Carolina. 



( N^otropia photogenis ("pale variety") Jordan & Brayton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii, 



22, 187 8.) 



29s. M. photog^enis (Cope) Jor. 



Body more slender, compressed. Head moderate. Mouth quite ob- 

 lique, lower jaw scarcely projecting; maxillary about reaching orbit. 

 Back broad. Dorsal lin inserted behind middle of body, a little behind 

 ventrals. Lateral line decurved. Eye large, 3^ in head. Color oliva- 

 ceous, with brown vertebral and dorsal lines ; sides and below bright 

 silvery; cheeks silvery. Head 4^; depth 5^. D. 8; A. 10; scales 6-40-3. 

 L. 3 inches. Alleghany region, Pennsylvania, to North Carolina, on 

 both sides of the mountains ; abundant and variable. Var. engraulinus 

 Cope is slenderer, the depth 6 in length, the head 3|. 



{Squalius photogenis Cope, Pi'oc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18154, 280 : Photogenis leucop» 

 Cope, Pioc. Acad. Nat. Sci Phila. 1867, llJ4 : Leud»cus photogenis GUuther, vil, 252.) 



299. m. telescopus (Cope) Jor. & Gilb. 



Very near the preceding, but with the dorsal fin inserted about mid- 

 way between snout and base of caudal, not much behind ventrals. Eye 

 longer than muzzle, 2'i in head. Mouth very oblique, mandible not pro- 

 jecting. Color pale greenish ; the scales extensively dark-edged above. 

 Head 4^ ; depth 5. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 5-38-3. L. 3^ inches. Ten- 

 nessee River. 



( I'hotogenis telescopus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18G7, 16.") : Leuciscus telescopua 

 GUnther, vii, 252.) 



300. M. slilbius Jordan. 



Body rather slender. Head rather long, somewhat pointed. Mouth 

 large, oblique, the maxillary reaching to the eye. Eye very large, 

 greater than snout and than interorbital width, 3 in head. Fins rather 

 high ; the ventrals reaching to opposite the last rays of the dorsal. Color 

 pale silvery green ; sides with a broad silvery band, on which are many 

 dark punctulatious; these are numerous just behind the shoulder-girdle 

 and at the base of the caudal, where thej' form an evident spot ; cheeks 

 pure silvery; lips dusky. Head 4i ; depth 5. D. 8; A. 10; scales 

 6-37-U : t»H^th 2, 4-4, 1. L. 3 inches. Alabama River. 



{Xotoiropin stillHU!< Jonhin. Ann. Lye. Xal. Ili^t. N. Y. l.'-'TO, '.M:i.) 



