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Head 3§; depth 2^ to 3; D. 24 to 26; A. 8; scales 7-38 to 41-6. 

 Body robust, compressed, back arched; head moderately large; lips 

 very thin papillose, the long diameter of papillae at right angles to 

 mouth, giving the lips a plicate appearance; opercle strongly striate; 

 lower lip slightly broader than upper, lobes somewhat u -shaped; 

 interorbital convex, 2% in head; snout 3^ in head; dorsal fin falcate, 

 tips of longest rays when deflexed reaching past middle of its base; 

 longest rays i^in its base ; origin of dorsal slightly nearer tip of snout 

 than base of caudal; distance between tip of pectoral and base of ven- 

 tral 2 in length of pectoral; pectoral if in head; ventral 1%; caudal 

 peduncle deep, its least depth 1% in its length; caudal fin forked, its 

 lobes about equal. 



Color light brownish, silvery below; middle of each scale silvery, 

 forming indistinct silverv lines along rows of scales; these more con- 

 spicuous on lower half of body. Length about 10 inches. 



A small species inhabiting the tributaries of the Rio Grande, on the 

 Mexican Plateau. 



23. Carpiodes elongatus sp. nov. Metalote. 



Type, No. 4425, F. C. M., 9 inches in length; Linares, Nuevo 

 Leon. 



Rivers of northeastern Mexico between the Rio Panuco and the 

 Rio Grande. (San Juan; Montemorelos; Linares; La Cruz.) 



Fig. 5. Carpiodes elongatus Meek. 



Head 4 to 4^3 ; depth 3^ to 373 ; D. 23 to 26; A. 7 ; scales 8-38-5. 

 Body elongate, not much compressed, back little elevated; head 

 small; interorbital convex, its width 2| in head; diameter of eye 3^ 

 to 4; snout 3^2 ; mouth small; lips thin, the lower about twice as thick 

 as the upper; lips papillose, the papillae with long diameter at right 

 angles to the mouth, giving the lips a plicate appearance; opercles 



