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A'ofropis conuitus (^litchill) 



Hypsilcpis conuitus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, p. 279. 

 Pine Lake, Emmet County; Bruce, jMacomb County; Swartz Creek. 



Notropis conuitus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1910, p. 283, 

 PI. 18, fig. 30. Pine Lake, Grosse Isle, Flint and Belle Isle. (Type of 

 Albuniopus phtmbeolus Cope). 



Hypsilcpis frontalis Cope. 1. c, p. 279. Grosse Isle, Detroit River; 

 Three Mile Lake and Waterford, Oakland County; Swartz Creek, 

 Genesee County ; Monroe County. 



AJhunwps phimhcolus Cope, 1. c, p. 282. Flint. 



Head 3 3/4 ; depth 4 1/4 ; D. iii, 7, i ; A. iii, 7, i ; P. i, 12 ; 

 V. I, 7 ; scales 35 in lateral line to candal base and 2 more on 

 latter; 6 scales above 1. 1., 3 ? below; 14 predorsal scales; 

 head width 2 in its length ; head depth i 3/5 ; mandible 2 1/2 ; 

 first branched dorsal ray i i/io; third simple anal ray i 1/3; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2 1/4; pectoral i 1/3; ventral 



1 1/5 ; snout 3 2/t^ in head measured from upper jaw tip; eye 



2 3/4 ; maxillary 3 2/5 ; interorbital 2 7/8. 



Body elongate, well compressed, rather slenderly fusiform, 

 greatest depth at dorsal origin, profiles similarly convex and 

 edges evenly so. Caudal peduncle compressed, least depth 

 about I 3/4 in its length. 



Head compressed, sides flattened somewhat and converg- 

 ing a little below, and upper profile little more convex than 

 lower. Snout convex over surface, its length 3/4 its width. 

 Eye large, ellipsoid, its width about 4/5 its length, and center 

 falls near first 2/5 in head. Mouth terminal, rather small, 

 inclined, and lower jaw well protrudes in front. Premaxil- 

 laries protractile down anteriorly. Maxillary slender, more 

 or less concealed, and reaches front edge of eye. Jaw edges 

 thin, tough. Lips thin. Tongue thick, fleshy, not free. Man- 

 dible depressed, rami scarcely elevated inside mouth. Nos- 

 trils together on upper side of snout close in front of eye. 



