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veutrals. Fins all rather small. Snout highly prickly in spring males. 

 Color dark ; sides with about 8 to 10 more or less conspicuous crossbars; 

 head mostly black in males ; fins all with the middle part dusky or black, 

 the tips milk-white, the ventrals and the anal notably so ; females paler, 

 the lateral bars narrower and shorter, the fins with less black. Length 2^ 

 inches. Chihuahua River, our specimens taken in the original locality 

 by A. J. Woolman. (ornatns, adorned.) 



Codoma ornata, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 195, Chihuahua River; and U.S. 



Mex. Bound. Surv., Ichth., 53, pi. 29, figs. 22-25, 1859 ; this species and Notropis aztecus both 



well figured by Girard. (Type, No. 91. Coll. J. Potts.) 

 Cliola ornata, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 173, 1883. 



Subgenus MONIANA, Girard. 

 430. NOTROPIS FORMOSUS (Girard). 



Head 3f ; depth 3| ; eye 3. D. 8 ; A. 8 ; scales 7-43-4, 23 before dorsal ; 

 teeth 4-4. Body elliptic, compressed, the form about as in N. lutrensis. 

 Mouth moderate, oblique, the maxillary 3| in head. Dorsal fin rather 

 high. Sides with a dusky streak, a brown spot at base of caudal. Length 

 2 inches. Rio Mimbres, Chihuahua. Well distinguished from N. lutren- 

 sis and related forms by the small size of the scales, (formosus, comely.) 



Montana fomiosa, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat.. Sci. Phila., 1856, 201, Rio Mimbres, Chihuahua. 

 Cliola formosa, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 174, 1883. 

 Notropis formosus, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 125. 



431. NOTROPIS FRIGIDUS (Girard). 



Head 4i ; depth 3 to 4; eye moderate, 4 in head. D. 9 ; A. 9. ; lateral 

 line 37. Body moderately elongate, compressed, with long caudal pedun- 

 cle. Head moderate, the snout subconical, somewhat pointed. Mouth 

 rather large, oblique, the maxillary scarcely extending to orbit. Lateral 

 line decurved. Length 3i inches. Rio Frio, Texas ; differing from N. 

 lutrensis in the smaller scales, (frigidus, cold ; in Spanish, frio.) 



Moniana frigida, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 200, Rio Frio, Texas. (Type, No. 



124. Coll. Clark.) 

 Cliola leonina, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 174, 1883, not of Girard. 



432. NOTROPIS LUTRENSIS (Baird & Girard). 



Head3f; depths (adult) to 4; eye small, 4. D. 7 or 8; A. 8; scales 6-35-2; 

 teeth 4-4. Body oblong, elevated, strongly compressed, the back arched; 

 caudal peduncle rather slender. Head stout and deep, its upper outline 

 depressed, the nape elevated, forming an angle, so that the profile is 

 somewhat concave. Young more slender, the form variously elongate or 

 elliptical. Mouth rather large, quite oblique, the lower jaw included. 

 Lateral line strongly decurved. Thirteen scales in front of dorsal. Males 

 profusely tuberculate in spring. Colors in life brilliant, steel-blue; the 

 lower parts silvery; the belly orange-red in the males; a conspicuous 

 violet-colored crescent behind the shoulders, followed by a crimson cres- 

 cent; fins reddish, the anal and caudal blood-red. Female plain greenish, 

 the fins unspotted. Length 2f inches. Southern Illinois to South Dakota, 



