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City; Red water Creek, Spearfish; Spring Creek, Hill City; Crow Creek, 

 Gammon's ranch; Chicken Creek, Speariish; Belle Fourche River, Belle 

 Fonrche; French Creek at Custer; Deer Creek, Glenrock; Big Goose Creek, 

 Sheridan. At most of these places it was quite abundant, especially in the 

 clear and moderately cold streams with gravelly bottoms. The largest 

 specimens obtained are from the Belle Fourche and from Rapid Creek, some 

 of which are over 8 inches in total length. Head 3*; depth il; eye 11; 

 snout 3; D. 8; A. 8; scales 11-56 to 59-6. These western specimens do not 

 differ appreciably from eastern specimens of this species. 



46. Leuciscus elongatus (Kirtland). North fork of Solomon River, Lenora, Kans. 



(as Squalius elongatus, Hay, 1887). This reference to the occurrence of this 

 fish in the Missouri Basin needs verification. 



47. Leuciscus neogaeus (Cope). Fifteen specimens from Cox Lake and 10 from 



Montana Lake. These examples vary in length from 2 to 3£ inches, the 

 average being about 2| inches. Head 3^ to 4 ; depth 4 to 5 ; eye 3i to 4; D. 

 I, 8; A. i, 8; scales about 80, 20 to 26 in transverse series, very small, 

 embedded and hard to count. Body stout, not compressed ; head very broad 

 and heavy; snout moderate, oblique, the maxillary reaching orbit. Color 

 dark olive above, sides paler, under parts straw color, median line of back 

 black ; middle of side with a narrow plumbeous band, ending in a small 

 black caudal spot. The band greenish posteriorly. 



48. Leuciscus milnerianus (Cope). Probably Battle Creek, S. Dak. (as Phoxinus 



milnerianus type, Cope, 1879). A species of doubtful validity. 



49. Abramis crysoleucas (Mitchill). Golden Shiner; Roach. Blackwater Creek, 



Brownsville, Saline, County, Mo. ; Flat Creek, Sedalia, Mo. (as Notemigonus 

 americanus chrysoleucm, Jordan & Meek, 1885); eastern Kansas (as Notem- 

 igonus chrysoleucus, Graham, 1885) ; Marais River, Dixon, Mo. (Meek, 1891) ; 

 Big Sioux River at Sioux Falls and Silver Lake, Iowa (Meek, 1892) ; Platte 

 River at Fremont; Floyd River at Sioux City, and Spirit Lake (Meek, 1894). 

 Not obtained by us except in ponds near Long Pine Creek, 10 miles north of 

 Long Pine, where it was common, and in bayous of Elkhorn River near 

 Ewing. 



50. Cliola vigilax (Baird & Girard). Grand River at Clinton, Mo., and Tabo 



Creek at Calhoun, Mo. (Jordan & Meek, 1885) ; Norfolk Creek, Norfolk 

 Junction; Floyd River, Sioux City; Elkhorn River at Fremont, Norfolk 

 Junction, and Ewing. This species was, contrary to what we had expected, 

 found to be rather uncommon in this region. Eastern Nebraska seems to 

 be the limit of its range northwestward. The largest specimens are 2f 

 inches in total length. A typical example from Ewing shows the following 

 characters : Head 4£ ; depth 4^ ; eye 4 ; snout 4 ; D. i, 8 ; A. i, 7 ; scales 

 7-46-3, 21 before dorsal; lateral line complete, decurved. Body rather slen- 

 der; snout, blunt; top of head, fiat; back, little arched; caudal peduncle, 

 long; mouth small, subinferior, nearly horizontal, maxillai^ barely reaching 

 eye; color, pale; back and upper parts of sides with small black specks on 

 borders of the scales forming cross-hatching on back; lower parts pale; 

 black caudal spot, not large ; fins all plain, except a dark spot on front of 

 dorsal. On some specimens the caudal and dorsal spots were quite indistinct. 



51. Cliola smithii sp. nov. Type locality : Prairie Creek near Scotland, S. Dak., 



where 5 specimens were obtained June 26, 1893 (collectors, Evermanu, Cox, 

 and Rutter). Associate type localities: Pond near Niobrara, Nebr., 1 speci- 

 men, June 28, 1893 (collectors, Evermanu, Cox, and Rutter); Dismal River, 

 Dunning, Nebr., August 9, 1 specimen (collectors, Cox and Gillum). (Type, 

 No. 45681, U. S. Nat. Mus. Co-type, No. 3136, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.) 



Head 4; depth 3|; eye 4; snout 4; iuterorbital width3; D. i, 8; A. 7; 

 scales 9-47-6, 27 before the dorsal. Teeth 4-4, not hooked, grinding surface 

 slightly developed. Intestine not long. Body short and stout, compressed ; 



