204 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



Eric YM HA buccata Cope. 



Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, S, 204. 



Body elongate; little compressed. Depth in length about five times; 

 the back not arched. Head rather long and with the muzzle broad ; in the 

 length not quite four times. Mouth small, somewhat inferior; the max- 

 illary not reaching the eye. The suborbital bone broad and crossed by 

 the conspicuous transparent mucous cavities. Dorsals over the ventrals ; 

 the rays eight ; anal rays eight Scales along the complete lateral line 

 5-85-5, about fifteen in front of the dorsal. Color rather pale, 

 olivaceous, with a darker dorsal streak and silvery sides. 



Michigan to Southern Mississippi. A common fish throughout Indiana, 

 Clarke, Ohio and Franklin counties (33, '88, 56, 57) ; New Harmony (4, 

 '88, 163) ; White River at Spencer U, '88, 167) ; East Fork White River 

 (23, '8i, 202); Pulaski County U, '88, 158); Carroll County (33, '88, 

 48) ; White River, Indiana (Cope in -'Cyprinidre of Pennsylvania," page 

 361) ; Vigo County ( 16, '94) ; Logansport ; Eel River U, '94, 37). See 

 24^, '93, 86. This fish lives in clear streams and rivers. Its food, as de- 

 termined by Prof. Forbes, consists of dipterous larvie, much sand and 

 some vegetable matter ( 14, No. 2. 80). 



Gen US' CLIOLA Giranl. 



Body rather stout, head broad, mouth terminal. Teeth, 4-4, strongly 

 hooked. Scales in front of dorsal small, about twenty-eight in number. 

 Lateral line complete. First rudimentary ray of dorsal separated from 

 first developed ray by membrane. 



A genus not satisfactorily differentiated from XiAropis. 



Cliola vigilax (B and G) 

 Bull-head Minnow. 



Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, S, 169; C. tuditana, op. cit., 165; C. taii- 

 rocephalas, op. cit., 166; G. vigilax, Jordan, ISSo, 23, 3; Hybopsis tudi- 

 tanus. Cope, 18, 381. 



Resembles Piviephales notatiis, but the mouth is more terminal, and, 

 besides, the alimentary canal is not twice as long as the body. Form stout. 

 Head large and broad, flat above. Depth in length, four to four and ■ 

 one-half; head in length, four to four and one-half. Snout blunt. 

 Mouth rather small. Eye three and one-half in head, high u]). 

 Caudal peduncle deep and broad. Scales along the complete lateral line, 

 forty-two. Those in front of dorsal small, about twenty-eight in number. 

 Color greenish, with the scales of the back dark-edg-ed ; a dusky band 

 on the side ending at the tail in a black spot. Fins creamy, the dorsal 

 with a black spot on its anterior rays. Length, three or four inches. 



