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The body in my specimens is deeper, the depth being contained in the 
length but 45 times or less. The back does not seem to be so broad nor 
the caudal peduncle so deep. The dark band that occurs on the caudal 
pedunele of typical specimens from Georgia is, in these from Mississippi, 
continued forward along the side to the snout; being, however, slightly 
broader and less perfectly defined anteriorly. 
I do not, however, think that the differences form sufficient grounds 
for establishing a new species. My largest specimens have a total length 
of 3 inches. ; 
Professor Jordan’s specimens were obtained in the upper tributaries 
of the Alabama River. 
GENUS HEMITREMIA, Cope. 
33. Hemitremia maculata, Hay, sp. nov. (No. 97,438.) 
Body long and slender, slightly elevated at the dorsal, somewhat com- 
pressed. Depth in the length 5 times. Head flattened above; snout, 
looked at from above, obtuse. Mouth small, the maxillary falling con- 
siderably short of the anterior border of the orbit, terminal, slightly 
oblique. Teeth 4-4, with grinding surface. 
Head in the length 4$ times. Eye in head 33, about equal to the 
snout. 
The fin-rays.are, D. 1, 8; A. I, 8. The dorsal begins slightly behind 
the ventrals. - Its length three-fifths, its height four-fifths, of the head. 
Anal, in length, one-half, in height two-thirds, the head. Caudal pe- 
dunele one-fourth the length of the body. Dorsal situated nearer to the 
snout than to base of caudal. 
The pores of the lateral line are found on but 8 or 10 scales, anteriorly. 
Seales 5-38-3. 
This fish is of a straw-color above, with the scales brown-edged. There 
is a faint, narrow dorsal band, and another narrow, dark line running 
from the vent on each side of the anal fin to the base of the caudal. A 
leaden band runs along the sides, which is rendered dusky by numerous 
black punctulations on the scales within this band. Besides these mi- 
nute punctulations there is on each scale along the center of the band a 
pair of larger black points. Posteriorly the lateral band ends in a black 
spot nearly as large as the eye. Snout and top of the head dusky. 
A single specimen, 24 inches long, and a few young, were obtained at 
Enterprise. 
Three other species of Hemitremia are recorded. IH. vittata, Cope, has 
teeth 4-5, with a black lateral band, and other paler ones above this. 
H. heterodon and H. bifrenata, described by the same author, both have 
teeth 4-4. They both appear to be less elongated species than the one 
described above, and neither are mentioned as having the conspicuous 
caudal spot of HZ. maculata, which is exhibited in all the specimens that 
Tsecured. In J. hetcrodon the “lateral line is posteriorly imperfect”. 
In H. bifrenata there are 12-13 rows of scales in front of dorsal, and 
