44 CYPRINID^ OF EASTERN ClANADA. 



black lateral band, which seems to disappear with age, for it has 

 never been seen in the case of full grown fish. It was upon this 

 feature that Storer based the apocryphal species S. 'pulchellus. 



Specimens from Ontario, collected by Prof. Macoun, are 

 identical Avith New Brunswick forms. 



Phoxinus neogaeus Cope. 

 Minnow. 



In Bull. No. XIII., Nat. Hist. Soc. of New Brunswick, pp. 

 44-7, will be found the first record of the occurrence of this little 

 syprinid on the Atlantic slope of North America. It was taken 

 by the writer from a pond in the valley of the St. John at Mau- 

 gerville, Sunbury Co., and submitted to Dr. B. E. Bean, of the 

 National Museum, Washington, who identified it as this species. 

 The writer subsequently collected it from several small lakes 

 near the mouth of the river in the vicinity of St. John (Dark 

 Lake, Water-works Lake, McDonald Lake); but, though careful- 

 ly sought after, it has not been found at any other station in the 

 province. In the summer of 1898, however, he collected it from 

 Nouvelle (New Carlisle) Lake, Gaspe, P. Q., Avhere it is associat- 

 ed with Chrosomus erythrogader Ag. 



Previously its only records had been the Saginaw and Grand 

 rivers, Michigan, and the Baraboo river, Wisconsin. As great 

 activity has characterized ichthyological research in recent years, 

 the lack of any further stations for this species being recorded 

 might be accepted as proof of its rarity, and lend additional in- 

 terest to the isolated and discontinuous character of its known 

 distribution. 



In New Brunswick the waters frequented by /*//o;mn(6' are gen- 

 erally free from predaceuus fishes except perhaps Aug uilla rodrata 

 LeS., and G aster osteii s pungitius L.. and its Quebec station is quite 

 similar in this respect, so that the brightly colored and other- 

 wise attractive minnow may, in part, owe its preservation here 

 and there to this cause. 



It varies considerably, the stock of one lake being oasil}' 

 distinguished from that of another, not alone by size and color- 

 ation, but by certain structural diflerences. The Dark Lake fish 



