Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 275 



CyprineUa r>')iti*t, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc-i. Phila., 1856, 198, Rio Sabinal, Texas, (Coll. 



Kennerly); and Mox. Bound. Surv., Ichth., 54, 1859. 

 Cliola venusla, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 178, 1883. 



441. NOTROPIS CERCOSTIGMA (Cope). 



Precisely like Notropis stigmaturus except that the scales are larger, 37 

 to 39 in the lateral Hue, and the fins in adult males more deeply colored, 

 orange yellow, with milky tips in life. Teeth 1, 4-4, 1. Caudal spot 

 nearly circular. Sandy streams tributary to the Gulf of Mexico, from 

 Pearl River and Red River to Rio Nueces ; abundant, especially so 

 in Rio Colorado of Texas, (nepitos, tail; aTi-ypa, spot.) 



CyprineUa cercostigma, COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 157, Pearl River, Monticello, 



Mississippi. 

 LuxUm chickasavemis, HAT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 506, Chickasawha River, Mississippi. 



(Type, No, 27419. Coll. Hay.) 

 Cliola urostigma, JORDAN & MEEK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 475, San Saba River, Fort Mc- 



Kavit, a tributary of Rio Colorado; Clear Creek, Texas. (Type, Nos. 20446 and 



17812. Coll. Anderson, Kumlein, & Earll.) 

 Minnilm cercostigma, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 173, 1883. 

 Notropis venustvs, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 19; but the true venuslus seems 



to have still larger scales. 



442. NOTROPIS STIGMATURUS (Jordan). 

 (SPOTTED-TAIL MINNOW.) 



Head 4i; depth 4f ; eye small, 4 in head. D. 8; A. 8; scales 7-42 to 

 44-3; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. Body elongate, fusiform, compressed. Head quite 

 long, rounded above, the snout pointed. Mouth rather large, somewhat 

 oblique, overlapped by the narrow upper jaw. Iris white. Maxillary 

 reaching beyond nostrils ; premaxillary on level of lower edge of pupil. 

 Scales closely imbricated, 20 in front of dorsal. Fins low, the dorsal 

 rather behind ventrals, its height less than one-fifth body. Color pale, 

 clear olive ; black dorsal spot not very distinct ; fins with their tips 

 charged with satin-white pigment, otherwise plain; a very distinct, 

 large, oblong jet-black spot at base of caudal, the color extending up on 

 the rays ; this spot is visible on all specimens, and is larger than in any 

 other of our Cyprinidce: its length about one-third that of the head. 

 First ray of dorsal dark in front ; males with an obsolete black spot on 

 the middle of the sides in front of the dorsal ; the head, etc., tuberculate 

 in spring. Length 4-J inches. Alabama Basin; very abundant. Very 

 close to N. cercostigma, from which it differs chiefly in the smaller scales, 

 and of which it may be an eastern variety, (arty pa, spot ; oiywz, tail.) 



Photogenis ttigmahmu, JORDAN, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1876, 337, Etowah River, etc., 



Rome, Georgia. (Type, No. 17891. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert. ) 

 Codoma stigmatura, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xn, 52, 1878. 

 CyprinettacdlUwa, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 61, 1877, Black Warrior River, Alabama. 



(Type, No. 6865. Coll. Prof. Alex. Winchell.) 

 Cliola calliura and stigmatura, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 178 and 182, 1883. 



443. NOTROPIS TRICHROISTIUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 4i ; depth 4i ; eye moderate, 3 in head ; scales 6-42-3 ; teeth 1, 

 4-4, 1. Body rather slender, compressed. Head slender and pointed. 



