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General color in life, 3^ellowish pink, alcoholic specimens yellowish; 

 fins slightlj' mottled with black. Length of the largest specimen 

 about 2 in. 



This species is rather abundant in the streams south of the Ohio and 

 east of the Mississippi. The specimens examined are from Cave 

 City, Ky., Roaring River in Mammoth Cave, and Mitchells Cave at 

 Glasgow, Ky. 



Measurements. 



Typ}illcht}i)js suhterraneus Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila. 1859, 62, well near Bowl- 

 ing Green, Ky. Putnam, Amer. Nat., VI, 1872, 17 (Mammoth Cave, Kentuckj'). 

 Jordan, Kept. Geol. and Nat. Res. of Ind. 1874 (1875), YI, 218 (Mammoth 

 Cave, Kentucky). Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish&s of N. A., 325, 1883. 

 Hay, Geoh and Nat. Res. of Indiana, XIX, 1894, 234. Jordan & Evermann, 

 Fishes North and Mid. Amer., I, 704, 1896. Eigenmann, Eyes of the Blind 

 Vertebrates of N. A., Archiv. f. Entwickehmgsmech., 1899,545; Proc. Ind. Ac. 

 Sci. 1898, (1899), 239 (.summary). 



Typhlichthys -wyandotte Eigenmann. « 



A single specimen taken from north of the Ohio River from a well 

 near Co r3'don, Ind. , is probal>ly a distinct species. It differs slightly 

 from those south of the Ohio, being somewhat more slender. The 

 Corydon specimen is 1.65 inches in length from tip of the snout to 

 base of caudal; other measurements are as follows: Head 3.66 in length; 

 width of bead in length of body 6.50, 1.66 in its own length; distance 

 from posterior margin of skull to front of first dorsal ray, 16 mm.; 

 front of dorsal to middle of caudal, 17 mm.; fii'st anal ray nearer base 

 of middle caudal ray than anus. Specimens from south of the Ohio 

 River, 42 mm. long, measure as follows: Head 3 to 3.25 in length of 

 body; width of head in length of bod3^ 5, 1.50 to 1.60 in its own length; 

 distance from base of skull to first dorsal, 15 mm. ; front of dorsal to 

 middle ray of caudal, 17.5 mm. First anal raj^ about equidistant from 

 base of middle caudal ray and anus. 



TppJiUchthys subternmeus 'Eigenma.nn, Proc. Ind. Ac. Sci. 1897 (1898), 230 (Corydon, 



Ind.) ; not of Girard. 

 TypJiliciJiys tvyandotte FAgenmann, Biol. Bull., VIII, Jan., 1905, 03. 



« In the Biological Bulletin, VIII, 65, Dr. C. H. Eigenmann described another new 

 species, TypiiUctJiys oshorni, from Horse Cave, Ky., with narrower and shorter head, 

 smaller ej-e, which is surrounded by prominent fatty masses, and swollen cheeks. 



