Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 413 
tions. Head bluish on the top ; gill-covers silvery, with cupreous and flesh-colored tints, 
and edged with a brown, membranous prolongation. Scales large, transparent, rounded at 
their summit, truncated at their base, striated; at the base of each scale is a fleshy, dark- 
colored membrane, which, projecting as far as the apex of the preceding scale, gives the ap- 
pearance of indistinct oblique bands across the fish. The lateral line contains fifty-one scales ; 
nine scales in an oblique line above the lateral line, and six below it. Dorsal nearly as high 
again as long. Anal higher than long. 
D.10. P.17. V.8. A.10. C.22. Length, 6 to 14 inches. 
Massachusetts, Storer. New York, Vauenciennes. 
Leuciscus pulchellus, Beautiful Leuciscus, Srorrr’s Report, p. 91. 
G3 ce Roach Dace, Dexay’s Report, p. 208. 
Leuciscus argenteus, Silvery Leuciscus, StorER’s Report, p. 90. 
cs £6 Silvery Dace, Dexax’s Report, p. 212. 
Cyprinus corporalis ? Corporal? Mrrcumn, Amer. Month. Mag., vit. p. 324. 
Leuciscus ? corporalis, Corporaalen, DeKay’s Report, p. 213. 
L’Able gentil (Leuciscus pulchellus, Storer), Cuvy. et Vau., xvi. p. 320. 
L’Able de Storer (Leuciscus Storeri, VaL,), Cuv. et Van., xv. p. 319, pl. 505. 
19. Leuciscus biguttatus, KirtTLanp. 
Olive and bluish above the medial line; sides and abdomen faintly cupreous. Fins orange, 
tinged with ferruginous ; a black spot at the base of the caudal fin. Body and fins irregularly 
punctated with small black dots, and a large vermilion dot behind each eye. The older in- 
dividuals, especially the males, have the upper surface of the head and upper jaw studded 
with numerous spines in the spring of the year. 
D.(?). P.(?). V.(?) A. (?). ©. (2). Length, 6 inches. 
Ohio, Kirrnuanp. 
Vulgar name, the ‘ Jerker.’’ 
Semotilus biguttatus, Two-spotted Chub, KintLanp, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., m1. p. 344, pl. 5, fig. 1. 
Leuciscus biguttatus, Dexay’s Report, p, 214. 
20. Leuciscus elongatus, KirTLanp. 
Back a beautiful sky-blue, edged below with a gilt band; below this is an interrupted 
black band, extending from the point of the upper jaw to the tail, passing through the iris 
of the eye, but broken by a carmine, or, in others, a vermilion stripe terminating above the 
end of the ventrals. Sides and belly silvery. Body elongated, slim. Dorsal high; caudal 
deeply forked. 
Det Tats Wale VAs @s aGLom Length, 3 inches. 
Tributaries of Lake Erie, near Cleveland, and of the Mahoning River, Trumbull county, 
Ohio, Kirrianp. 
Luxilus elongatus, Red-bellied Shiner of the Lake, KirtLann’s Report, pp. 169, 193. 
oo Wu ls “ UG Kirtianp, Bost. Journ, Nat. Hist., 111. p. 339, pl. 4, fig. 1. 
Leuciscus elongatus, Dekay’s Report, p, 214. 
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