Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 285 



in spring males; females silvery, with only traces of red markings. 

 Length 5 inches. Cumberland, Tennessee, and Savannah rivers; abun- 

 dant in the mountain streams, especially in the head waters of the Ten- 

 nessee; a showy little fish, (/co/c/cof, berry red; ytve.iov, cheek.) 



coccotjenis, COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 160, pi. 27, fig. 5, Holston River. 

 (Type, No. 36849. Coll. Cope.) 

 Leticisatfi cocrnyenis, GUNTUER, Cat.,vu, 253, 1868. 

 Minnilus coccogenis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 188, 1883. 



462. NOTROPIS ZONATUS (Agassis). 



Head 4 ; depth 4f ; eye very large, 3. D. 8 ; A. 9 ; scales 6-42-4 ; teeth 

 2, 4-4, 2, with narrow grinding surface. Body rather elongate, less slender 

 than in N. coccogenis, the head long, not acute. Jaws equal ; maxillary 3 

 in head, not reaching eye ; snout shortish ; lateral line decurved. Oliva- 

 ceous, with a black lateral band, (plumbeous in female) ; no caudal spot 

 and no spots on fins. Male in spring with the sides and lower parts flame- 

 red. Length 5 inches. Mountain streams in the Ozark region of Mis- 

 souri and Arkansas ; abundant. A brilliant fish, representing N. coccogenis 

 west of the Mississippi, (zonatus, banded.) 



Alburnus sonatus (AQASSIZ) PUTNAM, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.,1, 9, 1863, Osage River, Mo. 

 Notropis zonalus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 2. 



463. NOTROPIS ZONISTIUS (Jordan). 



Head 3f; depth 3|; eye 3i. D.8; A. 10; scales 7-40-3; teeth 2,4-4,2, 

 with very narrow grinding surface on 1 or 2 of them. Body rather 

 stout, compressed, the back somewhat elevated, the form that of a young 

 Notropis cornutus. Head heavy, broad and flattish above, the profile evenly 

 descending. Mouth large, smaller than in N. coccogenis, oblique, the jaws 

 about equal, the upper lip opposite middle of eye, the maxillary reaching 

 front of orbit. Eye very large, longer than snout. Scales not very closely 

 imbricated, 17 scales in front of dorsal. Lateral line strongly decurved. 

 Fins moderate, pectorals scarcely reaching ventrals. Steel blue above; 

 sides with considerable coppery luster ; dorsal fin with a sharp jet black 

 horizontal bar about halfway up, red-dish in young fishes, the tip of the 

 fin somewhat milky, the base pale ; a round black spot nearly as large as 

 eye at base of caudal ; anal fin plain ; caudal dull ferrugineous red, pale 

 at l>ase as in N. coccogenis, milky at tip ; back and sides with gilt lines; a 

 faint red bar down the cheeks as in N. coccogenis; a dark humeral bar; 

 males with the snout tuberculate ; females plain, so much resembling 

 Notropis eurystomus, from the same waters, that the two species were 

 at first confounded. Length 4 inches. Chattahoochee River; the typical 

 examples from Suwannee Creek. (jv77,zone; ICTTVOV, sail.) 



Codoma eurystoma, JORDAN & BRAYTON, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xn, 42, 1878, (excl.syn.,not Pho- 



logenis etiri/stomus, JORDAN). 

 Luxiluszonistius, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mire., 1879, 239, Suwannee Creek, tributary of Chat- 



tahoochee River, in Northern Georgia. (Type, No. 23452. Coll. Jordan & Braytou.) 

 Minnilus sonistius, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 188, 1883. 



