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Hypsilepis comutus Cope, Cyp. Perm., 1866, 372; Proc. Phil. Ac. Sci., 



1867, 158 ; Journal Phil. Ac. Sci., 1868, 229. Jordan, Ind. Geol. 



Surv., 1874, 223. Uhler and Lugger, Fishes of Md., 1876, 



148, and of late American writers. 



Hypsilepis comutus vars. gibbus, frontalis , cerasinus, comutus, cyaneus 



Cope, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sci., 1867, 157. 

 Luxilus comutus Jordan, Bull. Buff. Nat. Hist. Soc, 1876, 94; 

 Manual Vert., 1876, 286. Nelson, Bull. Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 1877. 

 Cyprinus magalops Raf., Am. Monthly Mag., 1818, 121. 

 Cyprinus melanurus Raf., I. c, 1S18, 121. 

 Luxilus chrysoceplmlus Rafin, Ich. Oh., 48, 1820. 

 Semotilus diplemia Kirtland, Rept. Zool. Ohio. 169, 1838 (not of Raf.). 



Leuciscus diplemia Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., V, 276, 1846. 

 Storer, Synopsis, 411. 

 Argyreus rubripinnis Heckel, Russeger's Reisen, 1843, 1040. 

 Leuciscus gibbosus Storer, "Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., July, 1845;" 

 Synopsis, 418, 1846. 

 Hypsolepis gibbosus Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sc. Arts, 1854, 359. 

 Plargyrus gibbosus Girard, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc, 1856, 196. 

 Leuciscus plagyrus Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., V, 26, 1845. 



Leuciscus plargyrus Storer, Synopsis, 410, 1846. 

 Leuciscus frontalis Agassiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 368. 



Hypsilepis frontalis Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 1854, 359. Putnam, 



Bull. M. C. Z., 1863, 7. 

 Plargyrus frontalis Girard, 1. c. 

 Leuciscus gracilis Agassiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 370. 

 Plargyrus gracilis Girai'd, 1. c. 



Hypsilepis gracilis Cope, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc, 1867, 157. 

 Plargyrus typicus Girard, 1. c, 195. 

 Plargyrus argentatus Girard, 1. c, 196. 



Plargyrus botomani Girard, 1. c, 196, and Pac R. R. Surv., X, 263, 1858. 

 Hypsilepis obesus Cope, Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc, 1867, 157 (not L. obesus 

 Storer, fide Agassiz). 



This familiar species is excessively abundant in the basin 

 of the Etowah. My specimens do not differ obviously from 

 var. comutus (of Cope) from the Ohio River. This fish is 

 popularly known as Rotten-gut or Rot-gut Minnow, because 

 its flesh spoils so soon after death. I did not find it either 

 in the Chattahoochee or Ocmulgee, but in every other stream, 

 east of the [Mississippi, where I have fished, it occurs in 

 abundance- 



