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This species is known from the Cape Fear and Santee basins. It was found 

 by Jordan to be very rare in Haw River, tributary of the Cape Fear, but not 

 uncommon in Catawba River near Marion and in Johns River near Morgantown. 

 This appears to be the fish which Cope assigns to the headwaters of the Catawba 

 and to the Neuse near Raleigh under the name of Photogenis levcops. 



84. NOTROPIS ATHERINOIDES Rafinesque. 

 Minnow. 



Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 1818, 204; Lake Erie. 

 Jordan, 18896, 152; French Broad and Swannanoa rivers. Jordan &. Evermann, 1896, 293. 



Diagnosis. — Body long and slender, compressed, not elevated, the depth contained 5.5 

 to 6 times in length; head bhint, conic, relatively short, contained 4.66 times in length; mouth 

 of moderate size, oblique, maxillary reaching to margin of orbit; eye large,_ contained 3 to 3.25 

 times in length of head, longer than snout; lateral line decurved; scales, 38 in lateral series, 8 in 

 transverse series, 15 anterior to dorsal fin; fins low, the dorsal well behind ventrals, rays 8; 

 anal rays 11; ventrals reaching beyond middle of dorsal. Color: above translucent green, sides 

 bright silvery. Length, 6 inches, {atherinoides, resembling a silverside.) 



Inhabits Ohio and Mississippi valleys and Great Lakes region, entering 

 North Carolina through Tennessee River, in the headwaters of which it is com- 

 mon (French Broad at Hot Springs, Swannanoa near Asheville). 



85. NOTROPIS AMCENUS (Abbott). 

 Minnow. 



Alhurnellus ammnus Abbott, American Naturalist, 1874, 334; Raritan River, N. J. 

 Notropis amcenus, Jordan, 18896, 129; Neuse River. Jordan & Evermann, 189G, 296. 



Diagnosis. — Body long, compressed, the depth contained 4.75 to 5.5 times in total length; 

 head .25 length; mouth large, oblique, jaws equal, maxillary extendi ig to margin of orbit; eye 

 large, longer than snout, contained 3.33 times in length of head; lateral Une decurved; scales, 39 

 in lateral series, 9 in crosswise series (6 above lateral line), 22 to 2c before dorsal; dorsal fin 

 high, rays 8; anal rays 10. Color: translucent green, sides silvery, a faint plumbeous lateral 

 band. Length, 4 inches, (amoenus, comely.) 



Found from the Raritan to the Neuse in clear streams on the eastern slope 

 of Alleghenies. It is common in the Neuse at ^lillburnie and in Little River at 

 Goldsboro. 



86. NOTROPIS UMBRATILIS (Girard), var. MATUTINUS Cope. 



Minnow. 



Alhurnellus matutinus Cope, 18706, 465; Neuse River, Wake County, N. C. 

 Notropis matutinus, Jordan, 18896, 125, 129; Tar and Neuse rivers. 

 Notropis umbratihs matutinus, Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 301. 



Diagnosis. — A compact slender species, depth .16 total length; head contained 4.25 

 times in length; orbit large, contained 3.5 times in head and once in interorbital space; dorsal 

 rays 8, longest equal to .33 distance from fin to end of snout; anal rays 11; scales 44 in lateral 

 line, 10 in transverse line, 20 to 25 before dorsal fin. Color: above olivaceous, scales edged 

 with brown; a plumbeous lateral band; sides and below silvery; a dark spot at caudal base; 



