Fishes of Upper Georgia. 349 



Color plain olivaceous above, silvery below ; dorsal and caudal dusky. 

 Fins not red. 

 Length of only specimen, 65 inches. 



Taken in Lovejoy's Creek, a small tributary of Oostanaula 

 River, near Floyd Springs, 14 miles north of Rome. One 

 of the " natives " " reckoned it was a Jumping Mullet," but 

 no one else remembered having seen it before. 



36. MYXOSTOMA DUQUESNII. 

 a. var. duquesnii. 



Catostomus duquesnii Le Sueur, Journ. Phil. Ac. Sci., I, 105. Rafinesque, 

 Ich. Oh., GO. Kirtland, Rep't Zool. Ohio., 169, 192 ; Bost. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist., V, 268. Dekay, Fishes N. Y., 203. Storer, Synop- 

 sis, 423. Ouv. and Val., "XVII, 458." Glinther, Cat. Fishes, 

 VII, 18. Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1854, 356. 



Ptychostomus duquesnii Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1855, 89. 

 Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1870, 476. Jordan, Ind. Geol. Surv., 

 1874, 221 ; Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., 876, 195. 



Teretulus duquesnei Cope, Journ. Phil. Ac. Sci., 1838, 236. Nelson, 

 1. c. Jordan aud Copeland, Check List, 1876. 



Moxostoma duquesnei Jordan, Man. Vert., 295. 

 Catostomus erythrurus Rafinesque, Ich. Oh., 59, 1820. 



Ptychostomus erythrurus Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, 1870, 474. 



b. var. lachrymalis. 



Ptychostomus lachrymalis Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1870, 474. 



I do not think it possible to recognize lachrymalis, duques- 

 nei, erythrurus, and oneida, as characterized by Prof. Cope, 

 as distinct species. In the Ohio River, the "Common Red 

 Horse of the fishermen," usually answers Le Sueur's duques- 

 nei best, but most specimens have nine ventral rays, while 

 many have nine rays on one side and ten on the other ; and 

 some not differing in any other respect, have ten. 



My specimens from the tributaries of the Etowah answer 

 best to erythrurus and lachrymalis of Cope. Lachrymalis 

 is the more abundant, and my specimens of it are more 

 blackish in color, with larger mouth and smaller scales than 

 those of the former. Both in life have the lower fins rosy, 



