264 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



412. NOTROPIS PROCNE (Cope). 



Head 4f ; depth 51. Scales 5-32 to 34-3 ; teeth 4-4 ; A. 7. Body slender, 

 with long caudal peduncle ; the back higher and the tail slenderer than 

 in N. blennlus, the profile steeper. Snout obtuse, the mouth horizontal, 

 inferior, small. 13 rows of scales in front of dorsal. Dorsal higher than 

 in N. Wennius, its first ray as long as head. Eye large. Olivaceous ; a dark 

 dorsal line and a plumbeous lateral band overlying black pigment; fins 

 unspotted, sometimes very pale. Length 21 inches. Delaware Eiver and 

 southward, in coastwise streams, as far as the Neuse; very common. One 

 of the smallest of the Cyprinidce. (-rrpoKvri, a kind of swallow.) 



Hybognaihus procne, COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 279, Delaware River, Schuylkill 



River, Conestoga River, White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania. 

 Hybopsis longiceps, COPE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 231, Head waters of James River 



and Roanoke River, Virginia. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Hybopsis procne, COPE, Cypr. Penn., 385, 1866. 

 Leuciscus procne, GVNTHER, Cat., vn, 260, 1868. 

 Cliolamicrostoma and C. procne, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 168, 169, 1883. 



413. NOTROPIS NIGROTjENIATUS (Giinther). 



Head 4; depth 5; eye 4$. D. 8; A. 8; scales 6-35-3; teeth probably 

 4-4, although only 2-2 are present in one of the typical examples, and no 

 teeth at all in the others , no evident grinding surface. Body oblong; 

 snout obtuse, convex, longer than the eye. Mouth subinferior, small, the 

 upper jaw the longer ; maxillary not reaching front of orbit. Silvery, with 

 black lateral band ; no spots on fins. Length 4 inches. Atlisco, Mexico. 

 (niger, black; tceniatus, striped.) 



Graodus* nigrotseniatus, GUNTHER, Cat., vn, 485, 1868, Atlisco, Mexico. (Coll. Boucard.) 

 Cliola nigrotseniata, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 226; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 164, 

 1883. 



414. NOTROPIS KANAWHA, Jordan & Jenkins. 



Head 4? ; depth 4f ; eye 3* ; snout 3i. D. 8 ; A. 9 ; scales 4-37-2, 16 

 before dorsal ; teeth 4-4, hooked, with grinding surface. Body rather 

 elongate, moderately compressed, the back a little elevated. Snout blunt- 

 ish, gently decurved ; jaws equal ; mouth rather oblique, the maxillary 3 

 in head, reaching front of eye; interorbital space flattish, slightly broader 

 than eye which is large, preorbital broad; suborbitals narrow; fins all 

 rather high ; dorsal inserted distinctly behind ventrals. Translucent 

 green, sides silvery, with few dark dots ; no spot on fins or at base of 

 caudal. Length 3 inches. Tributaries of Kanawha River, southwestern 

 Virginia. 



Notropis kanaicha, JORDAN & JENKINS, Proc. II. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 354, pi. XLIV, fig. 5, Reed Creek, 

 Wytheville, Virginia. (Type, No. 39928. Coll. Jordan, Evermann, & Jenkins.) 



415. NOTROPIS BRAYTONI, Jordan & Evermann, new specific name. 



Head 3 ; depth 3. D. 8; A. 7; scales 5-32-4. Body stout, rather deep; 

 eye smallish, 3i in head ; about equal to snout and about ^ less than inter- 

 orbital area, which is quite flat; margin of upper lip on level of pupil; 



*The accidental loss of the teeth in two of the three typical examples was the occasion of 

 the establishment of the nominal genus, Graodus. 



