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than in the next, about 4 in length : eye about equal to snout, 5 in head, much 

 smaller than iu B. bubalus: mouth large, considerably oblique, opening well for- 

 wards : mandible longer than eye : dorsal fin lower and less rapidly depressed 

 than in the next, the longest ray scarcely half the length of the base of the fin ; 

 anal fin rounded, its rays not rapidly shortened, the middle ones not much shorter 

 than the longest: colors very dark; fins all black: scales 8-41-7; dorsal, 30; 



anal, 10 URUS, 51. 



*** Mouth small, inferior, slightly corrugated : depth 3 to 3J in length } head 4 to 4-J-, 

 not much longer than high : eye rather small, one-fifth of the length of the head 

 and f that of the snout : suborbitals narrow. Anterior rays not much produced, 

 shorter than the head ; caudal forked. Origin of ventral vertically below the 

 fourth dorsal ray. Pectoral fin not extending to ventrals. There are five 

 longitudinal series of scales between the lateral line and the root of the ventral. 

 Coloration uniform. Scales 7-38-7 ; dorsal 29 ; anal 10 MERIDIOXALIS, 52. 



,50. BUBALICHTHYS BUBALUS Agassiz. 

 Buffalo-fish. Small-mouthed Buffalo. High-backed Buffalo. 



1838Cato8tomu8 bubalus KIRTLAND, Rept. Zool. Ohio, 1G8. (Not of Rafinesq'ie.) 



Catostomus bubalus KIRTLAND, Boston Jouru. Nat. Hist, v, 268, 1845. 



Catostomus bubalus STORER, Synopsis, 424, 1846. 



Bubalichthys bubalus AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 195, 1855. 



Bubalichthys bubalus JORDAN, Fishes of Ind.,222, 1875. 



Bubalichthys bubalus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 158, 1876. 



Bubalichthys bubalus JORDAN, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 74, 1877. 



Bubalichthys bubalus JORDAN & GILBERT, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 1877. 

 1854 f f Carpiodes taurus AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 355. (Not identifiable.) 



ff Bubalichthys taurus AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 193, 1855. 



f f Bubalichthys tawus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 15S, 1876. 

 18 54 1 f Carpiodes vitulus AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 356. (Not identifiable.) 



f f Bubalichthys vitulus AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts. 2d series, xix, 193, 1855. 



f ? Bubaimhthys vitulus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 158, 1876. 



f f Bubalichthys vitulus JORDAN & GILBERT, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 1876. 

 1868 Sctcroynal hits urus GUNTIIER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. vii, 22. 

 iH76 /c%obs cyancllus NELSON, Bull. No. 1, Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist. 49. 



Icthyobtts cyanellus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 158, 1876. 



Iclhyobus cyanellus JORDAN, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 73, 1877. 



Idhtiobus cyanellus JORDAN & GILBERT, in Klippart's Rept. 53, 1876. 



Ichthyobus cyanellus JORDAN, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 323, 1878. 

 1877 Bubalichlhys altus NELSON, MSS. 



Bubalichthys altus JORDAN, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 73, 1877. 



Bubalichthys altus JORDAN, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 324, 1878. 

 1877 Bubalichihys bubalinus JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix, 50. 



BubaUchthys bxbalinus JORDAN, Man. Vert. ed.2d, 325, 1878. 



HABITAT. Mississippi Valley ; abundant in all the larger streams. 



