280 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Cliola camura, JORDAN & MEEK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 474, Arkansas River, Fort 

 Lyon, Colorado. (Type, No. 12256. Coll. Dr. E. Palmer.) 



452. NOTROPIS XJENURUS (Jordan.) 



Head 4; depth 3f; eye large, 3f in head. D. 8; A. 10; scales 6-39-3; 

 teeth 1, 4-4, 1. Body moderately elongate, subfusiform, heavy forward. 

 Head heavy, somewhat elongate, rounded above. Mouth large, oblique, 

 the lower jaw included ; maxillary reaching almost to orbit ; premaxil- 

 lary on level of upper part of pupil. Fins all rather low, the height of 

 the dorsal fin, even in males, only two-thirds length of head ; caudal fin 

 large. Color dark steel-blue ; silvery below ; a faint black spot at base 

 of caudal ; scales above dark-edged ; males with the fins mostly bright 

 crimson; the dorsal largely black at its upper posterior part; dorsal, 

 anal, and caudal fins with white pigment; belly and bases of lower fins 

 likewise pigmented; head and caudal peduncle tuberculate in spring. 

 Length 3 inches. Altamaha Basin, Georgia ; locally abundant. (Zaivu, 

 to scratch ; ovpd, tail.) 



Minnilus xxnurus, JORDAN, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1877, 79, Ocmulgee River, Flat Shoals, 



Georgia. (Type, No. 17862. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Codoma xsenura, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xir, 52, 1878. 

 Cliola xsmura, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 184, 1883. 



453. NOTROPIS HYPSELOPTERUS (Giinther). 



Head 4i; depth 4; eye 3. D. 8; A. 11; scales 6-35-3; teeth 1,4-4, 1. 

 Body short, much compressed, the back elevated. Head short, flattened 

 above, the muzzle pointed. Mouth large, very oblique, the jaws just 

 equal. Eye large, about equal to snout and to interorbital space. 

 Scales with the exposed surfaces very narrow. Lateral line much 

 decurved ; 16 large scales before dorsal. Dorsal fin inserted entirely 

 behind ventrals, greatly elevated, its longest ray a little longer than 

 head ; anal fin also very high and very long, extending almost to base of 

 caudal; these fins somewhat lower in females. Color silvery ; the dorsal 

 blotch conspicuous ; a distinct black caudal spot, smaller than eye and 

 deeper than long ; sides with a silvery band which passes around the 

 nose, below this a dusky band. Breeding colors unknown. Length 2i 

 inches. Southern Georgia and Alabama. (tyrjAos, high; 7n-fpov, fin.) 



Alburnus formosus, PUTNAM, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zob'l., i, 9, 1863, Mobile, (not Montana formosa, 



Girard). 

 Leuciscus hypselopierus, GUNTHER, Cat., vn, 255, 1868, Mobile; substitute for formosus,' preocu- 



pied. (Coll. Thos. Moore.) 

 Photogenis grandipinnis, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 62, 1877, Flint River, Georgia. 



(Type, No. 9296. Coll. Hugh M. Neisler.) 

 Cliola hypseloptera, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 184, 1883. 



454. NOTROPIS PYRRHOMELAS (Cope). 



Head 4 ; depth 3| ; eye large, 3. D. 8 ; A. 10 ; scales 6-35-3 ; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. 

 Body deep and compressed. Head stout, rather blunt. Mouth oblique, 

 the jaws about equal; maxillary reaching front of orbit. Pectorals 

 barely reaching ventrals, the latter to anal ; dorsal fin greatly elevated, 

 its height in male as great as length of head ; caudal very broad and 

 long, its peduncle stout and compressed ; anal fin large and long. Color- 

 ation of males dark steel-blue above; the scales darker-edged; belly 



