Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 269 



tion here drawn up from the types. Lower Arkansas River basin, prob- 

 ably not distinct from Notropis shumardi. (illecebrosus, enticing.) 



Albumops illecebrosus, GIRABD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 194, Arkansas River, Fort 

 Smith, Arkansas. (Typo No. 66. Coll. Dr. Shumard) ; GIRARD, Pac. R. R. Surv. x, 262, 

 pi. 57, figs. 5-8, 1858. 



Minnilm shumardi, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 192, 1883 (in part). 



428. NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS (DeWitt Clinton). 

 (SPAWN-EATER ; SPOT-TAILED MINNOW ; SHINER.) 



Head 4f ; depth 4 ; eye 3. D. 8 ; A. 8 ; scales 5-39-4 ; teeth 1, 4-4, or 1, 

 or 2. Body elongate, considerably compressed in the adult. Head quite 

 short. Muzzle blunt, decurved, shorter than the very large eye. Mouth 

 moderate, nearly horizontal, the jaws nearly equal, the maxillary nearly 

 reaching to the eye. Lateral line nearly straight, slightly decurved ante- 

 riorly. 18 scales before dorsal. Pectorals not reaching ventrals, the latter 

 not to vent. Coloration very pale, with usually a dusky or black spot at 

 base of caudal, especially in the young; sides with a broad, silvery band, 

 which is sometimes dusky. Length 4 to 6 inches. The Dakotas and 

 Lake Superior to New York, and southward to South Carolina; abundant 

 in the Great Lakes, and not rare east of the Alleghauy Mountains; a large 

 and handsome minnow, the choice "live bait" of the St. Lawrence 

 River angler. The typical form, hudsonius, in the Lower Great Lakes 

 and the Hudson, Susquehanna, and other northeastern rivers, has 

 the head short, 4f in length; eye 31 in head, as long as the blunt snout; 

 mouth less oblique than in selene, more so than in amarus ; maxillary not 

 reaching front of eye ; caudal spot jet-black. Teeth 2, 4-4, 1. Specimens 

 apparently referable to hudsonius rather than to amarus occur in the Poto- 

 mac, and in streams even so far south as South Carolina, but the bounda- 

 ries of hudsonius, amarus, and saludanus are hard to fix. 



Clupea hudsonia, DsWiTT CLINTON, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1, 49, 1824, Hudson River. . 

 Hudsonius fluviatilis, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 210, Hudson River. (Type, No. 



14. Coll. Baird.) 



Hybopsis hudsoniutt, COPE, Cypr. Penn., 386, 1866. 

 Leuciscus hudsonius, GUNTHER, Cat., vn, 250, 1868. 

 Cliola hudsonia, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 171, 1883. 



Represented in Lake Superior by 



428a. NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS SELENE (Jordan). 



With the head very short, 4* in body, the mouth quite oblique, the pre- 

 maxillary on level of lower part of pupil; snout eye; maxillary reach- 

 ing front of eye. Caudal spot jet-black. Teeth 2, 4-4, 2 or 1. (arjfyvr], 

 the moon.) 



iMxilm selene, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 60, 1877, Lake Superior, Bayfield, Wiscon- 

 sin. (Coll. Miluer.) 

 Minnihts selene, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 188, 1883. 



