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tint. Dorsal dilute dusky. Pectoral transparent like other fins, 
or only a little dusky along the upper margin. In some lights: 
sides of head with purplish and golden reflections. Iris silvered. 
Adult. Egg Harbor River at Mare Run. April 23d, 1905. This. 
beautiful little fish, in company with Mesogonistius chetodon, 
was found to be exceedingly abundant in the little channels and 
runs in the sphagnum banks. ‘They associate in large schools. 
I have a large series from the Rancocas affluents of the Dela- 
ware basin, near Brown Mills, which may however belong to the 
true N. chalybeus, as they have faded while long in alcohol. 
PLeuciscus sp.? Baird, oth An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 
342. 
Cliola chalybea Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 
132. 
Notropis chalybeus abbotti Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., 1904, p. 230,.Pl. 17, upper eure. 
Notropis amoenus (Abbott). 
Attractive Minnow. 

Attractive Minnow. Notropis amenus (Abbott). (Young.) 
Head 4% ; depth 424; D.1, 8; A. 1, 11; scales 5—39—3; pharyn- 
geal teeth I, 4-4, 1; eye 3% in head. Head rather short and 
broad, and profile less pointed anteriorly to orbit. Orbit large, 
equal to length of muzzle, and but a trace less interorbital space. 
Pharyngeal teeth moderately hooked, with narrow masticatory 
