Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2801 



base of caudal fin, the anterior half lying wholly above the lateral line, 

 the posterior portion lying partly below it; this silvery band bounded 

 above by a narrow dark border ; cheeks and opercles silvery ; a darkish 

 band along median line of back; fins all plain straw color or pale lemon. 

 Fourteen examples of this species, 2 to 3 inches in length, were obtained 

 from the Atchafalaya River at Melville, Louisiana, by Mr. Fred M. 

 Chamberlain, for whom the species is named. 



Notropit chamberlaini, EVERMANN MS., Atchafalaya River, Melville, Louisiana. (Type, 

 No. 48901.) 



Page 291. Notropis scopifer, Eigenmann & Eigenmann, is identical 

 with Notropis hudsonius selene (Jordan), (p. 269), and should be omitted. 

 Page 294. After Notropis dilectus insert : 



487 (a). NOTBOPIS LOUISIANA, Evermann, new species. 



Head 4f ; depth 5; eye 3; snout 3. D. 7; A. 11; scales 7-37-3, 19 or 20 

 before the dorsal. Teeth 1, 4-4, 2, little hooked. Body long and slender, 

 back not arched ; head short, but pointed ; mouth rather large, oblique, 

 maxillary scarcely reaching orbit, lower jaw somewhat included; eye 

 large, equal to or greater than snout. Fins rather small ; origin of dorsal 

 far behind insertion of ventrals, its longest rays If in head ; pectorals 

 short, their length equal to height of anal; ventrals very short, 2 in head ; 

 caudal deeply forked. Scales firm, moderately imbricated; lateral line 

 complete, gently decurved. Color pale; side with a faint plumbeous 

 band ; back and upper part of sides with numerous dark specks chiefly on 

 the margins of the scales, thus forming cross-hatchings; a narrow dark 

 vertebral band on caudal peduncle; peritoneum silvery, with numerous 

 minute round black specks. Length 1\ inches. This species resembles 

 Notropis dilectus, but has a much smaller mouth, blunter snout, and in 

 being less silvery along the side. Known only from the Atchafalaya 

 River, Louisiana. 



Notropis louisiance, EVERMANN MS., Atchafalaya River, Melville, Louisiana. (Type, 

 No 48902. Coll. Fred M. Chamberlain.) 



Page 348. Angullla cJirysypa is abundant in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 according to Dr. Win. Wakeham. 



Page 355. The original type of Congermurwna is C. halenata, Kaup, a 

 species with blunt or granular teeth. The American species all belong to 

 a distinct genus, Congrellus, Ogilby (type balearica), distinguished by the 

 villiform teeth. These genera are charactered by Mr. Ogilby in a paper 

 as yet unpublished. 



Pages 356 and 357. In Congermurcena flava the upper jaw projects far 

 beyond the lower. By a slip in the original description the reverse is 

 said to be the case. 



Page 359. Munmesox coniceps is called Culevra Blanca at Mazatlan, 

 and reaches a length of 7 feet. 



Page 368. Avocettina gilli, Beau, should probably stand as a species 

 distinct from Avocettina infans. The description in the footnote on page 



