78 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



snout; lower jaw blackish; rays of anal fin 9; scales 5-36-2 : basin of the 

 Great Pedee and Cape Fear Rivers; in pine woods; common. 



H. roseus (Jord.). Length 60 mm. ; head 4.3 ; depth 4.5 ; color oliva- 

 ceous, with a dark lateral line; fins red in male; top head red; rays of 

 anal fin always 7; scales 5-38-5; body short and stout; a dark caudal 

 spot: lowland streams of the Gulf States from the Ogeechee to the 

 Mississippi; common. 



H. chalybceus (Cope). Length 50 mm.; head 3.8; depth 5 ; color dark, 

 with a black lateral band; belly straw color, orange in spring males; a 

 small dark caudal spot; scales 6-35-3 > body slender; mouth very oblique : 

 Ogeechee River to the Delaware, in coastal streams and swamps; 

 scarce. 



H. chrosomus (Jord.). Length 60 mm.; head 4.3; depth 5; color 

 greenish; belly silvery; a scarlet bar across the dorsal, anal and the base 

 of the caudal fins; a narrow scarlet lateral band; a small black spot at 

 base of tail fin; scales 5-37-3: Alabama basin; very common. 



H. xcBnocephalus (Jord.). Length 70 mm.; head 4.2; depth 5; color 

 dark olivaceous, with a dark band along the sides of the caudal peduncle 

 and the head and a dusky blotch at the base of the tail fin; males with- 

 out red; rays of anal fin 7 ; scales 5-38-3 : Georgia to Mississippi; common 

 in pine woods; descending to the sea. 



38. Notropis Rafinesque. Shiners. Body elongate, with little 

 pigment; teeth 2, 4-4, 2; anal fin long, with 9 to 12 rays; scales not 

 closely imbricated, with 45 to 50 in the lateral line ; first ray of dorsal 

 fin rudimentary; dorsal behind or over the ventrals: 10 species. 



A^. ariommns (Cope). Length 125 mm.; head 3.75; depth 4.25; 

 color olivaceous; rays of anal fin 9; scales 6-39-2; eyes very large: basin 

 of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers; common about Indianapolis. 



N. jejunus (Forbes). Length 75 mm.; head 4; depth 4.6; color 

 pale, with a broad silvery lateral band; rays of anal fin 7; scales 5-37-3; 

 teeth 2, 4-4, I : western Pennsylvania to Kansas; southward to Tennessee 

 northward to Winnipeg; not rare. 



N. leuciodus (Cope). Length 75 mm. ; head 4.5 ; depth 5 ; color oliva- 

 ceous; sides silvery, with a purplish lateral band; a black spot at base of 

 tail fin; scales 5-39-3: basin of the upper Tennessee; very common; 

 not in mountain streams. 



N. telescopus (Cope). Length 100 mm.; head 4.25; depth 4.75; color 

 pale greenish, the scales dark edged; rays of anal fin 10; scales 5-35 to 

 38-3; mouth very obHque; eyes very large: basin of the upper Ten- 

 nessee, in cold streams; very common; also in Arkansas. 



