242 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



incomplete, usually extending to caudal peduncle. Dorsal inserted 

 slightly behind ventrals. Peritoneum black ; intestine a little longer 

 than body. Dark gray, often a faint plumbeous lateral band. Rivers of 

 Southern California tributary to the Pacific, abundant ; described from 

 Temecula River ; also found in the Rio San Luis Rey and Rio San 

 Jacinto, (Edward Hyatt), and Santa Ana River, (Gilbert). (Named for 

 Charles Russell Orcutt, the well known botanical collector who first 

 obtained it.) 



Phoxinus orcutti, EIOENMANN & EIGENMANN, Proc. Ac. Sci. Cal., 2d series, HI, 1890, 2, Temecula 

 River, Riverside County, California. (Type, No. 41925.) 



Subgenus HEMITREMIA, Cope. 

 382. LEUCISCUS MILNERIANUS (Cope). 



Head 4; depth 5^; eye3. D.8; A. 8; scales 8-40 to 45-7 ; teeth 2, 5-4, 2. 

 Body elongate ; chin slightly projecting. Scales in 15 longitudinal rows 

 between dorsal and ventral. Orbit equal to length of muzzle. Dorsal 

 inserted behind the entire base of ventrals. Mouth very large, maxillary 

 extending nearly to pupil ; head rather flat above. Length of lateral 

 line unknown, the scales posteriorly having been lost in the type. 

 Brownish olive above, below silvery ; a black band, not well defined on 

 the borders, extending from the end of the muzzle to the base of the caudal 

 fin, where it ends in a black spot ; a reddish spot at base of anterior dorsal 

 rays ; muzzle dark. Length 2i inches. Upper Missouri River. (Cope.) 

 Not seen by us. (Named for James W. Milner, then Asst. U. S. Fish Com- 

 missioner, author of important contributions to Economic Ichthyology.) 



Phoxinus milnerianus, COPE, Amer. Nat., July, 1879, 440, upper Missouri River, probably 

 Battle Creek, Montana; (Coll. Cope); JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 243, 1883. 



383. LEUCISCUS FLAMMEUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 4; depth 4; eye large, 31 in head. D. 8; A. 8; scales 7-43-5; 

 teeth 2, 4-5, 2. Body moderately stout, slenderer and more compressed 

 than in L. neogceus. Head rather short and deep, the upper outline 

 rounded, the muzzle rather blunt. Mouth small, oblique, the jaws about 

 equal, the upper lip on level of pupil ; maxillary extending to front of 

 orbit. Scales much larger and more loosely imbricated than in L. neogcem; 

 back and belly scaled. Lateral line short, decurved, on 14 scales, not 

 reaching base of ventrals. Fins small, the dorsal well backward. Back 

 dark ; a black lateral band, formed of dark specks ; above this a pale band; 

 the belly below this pale ; bright scarlet red in the males in spring; a 

 small black spot at base of caudal. Length 2^ inches. In tributaries of 

 Tennessee River, common in clear streams in northern Alabama, (flam- 

 meus, flaming.) 



Hemilremia vittata, COPE, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. Phila., 1870, 462, Holston River, Knoxville, 



Tennessee; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 162, 1883; the name vittaius is preoccupied in 



Leuciscus. 

 Phoxinus Jtammeus, JORDAN & GILBERT, in Jordan, Man. Vert. E. U. S., ed. 2, 303, 1878, Elk, 



River, Estill Springs, Tennessee; JORDAN & BRAYTON, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xn, 66 



1878; JORDAN & GILBERT Synopsis, 243, 1883. 



