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dorsal fin. Dorsal nearly over the ventrals. Dorsal rays, I, 8 ; anal, 

 I, 7. Coloration pale, with a faint dorsal line, and sometimes there 

 is a dusky lateral stripe. 



From the Great Lakes to Virginia and Texas. Probably in most of 

 the streams of Indiana. Carroll County {Jo, '88, 46) ; Marion County 

 (1, '77, 377) ; Kankakee River (1, '77, 45) ; Lawrence County (:2S, '84, 

 201); St. Joseph's River, Kankakee River, at Plymouth (4, '88, 154 

 and 156) ; Logansport (4, '88, 158); New Harmony (4, '88, 162) ; White 

 River at Spencer (4, '88, 167) ; Eel River basin (4, '94, 37). For a few 

 additional localities, see ^4^ '93, 87. 



About one-fourth of the food of this species consists of the seeds of 

 grasses ; the other three-fourths is made up of animal matter, neurop- 

 terous insects and entomostraca (Forbes, 14, No. 6, 84). 



NoTROPis ANOGENUS Forbcs. 



Forbes, S. A., 1885, U, 138. 



This species has been found in Cayuga Lake, New York, and iu North- 

 ern Illinois. It has also recently been taken by Prof P. H. Kirsch in 

 Northeastern Indiana. It is an insignificant species, one and one-half 

 inches long. The mouth is very oblique and small. The teeth are 4-4 

 with hook aud grinding surface. Dorsal slightly behind the ventrals. 

 Scales thirty four to thirty-seven; thirteen before the dorsal. The color is 

 dark above, yellowish beneath. Side with a very distinct black band ending 

 behind iu a black tail-spot. Pores of the complete lateral line each with 

 a black speck. Fins all dusky. Head iu length four to four and one- 

 quarter ; depth in length faur to four and one-third. Whitley County 

 (4, '94, 37). 



NOTROPIS HETERODON (Copc). 



Hemitremia heterodon, Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, 8, 163 ; Gilbert, 

 1884, 23, 207. 



Form rather stout. Depth in the length four. Head iu length four; 

 mouth small, terminal, obi que ; lower jaw often projecting. Eye in head 

 three. Teeth usually 4-4, with hook aud grinding surface. In some 

 specimens referred to this species the teeth are 2, 4-4, 2. Dorsal, 

 eight; anal, eight or seven. Lateral line usually developed only au- 

 teriorly. Olive or dusky above, with a dark lateral band passing around 

 the snout. Length about two and one-half inches. 



The typical forms of this species have the teeth 4-4, and the lateral 

 line incomplete, but Dr. Gilbert (23, '84, 207) has ■ referred specimens 

 to this species Avhich have the lateral line complete, and teeth, 2, 4-4, 2, 

 At Winamac, -Pulaski County, I have taken, July 1, numerous such speci- 

 mens. The lateral line is not always, but usually, complete. The snout 

 is rather blunt than sharp, as in Gilbert's specimens. Nor does the 



