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464. NOTROPIS RUBRICROCEUS (Cope). 

 (RED FALLFISH.) 



Head 4; depth 4|; eye 3. D. 8; A. 9; scales 7-38-3; teeth 2, 4-4, 2, 

 the edges of the grinding surface often serrate. Body moderately elon- 

 gate, somewhat compressed. Head comparatively long and rather pointed. 

 Mouth rather large, oblique, the jaws about equal. Eye large, as long 

 as snout, premaxillary rather below pupil; maxillary reaching beyond 

 front of orbit. Lateral line somewhat decurved; 19 scales in front of 

 dorsal. Dorsal inserted somewhat behind ventrals. Females olivaceous, 

 sometimes flushed with red. Males dark steel blue, a dark lateral band 

 of coaly punctulations, which is usually distinct on the anterior part of 

 the body, and passes through the eye around the snout; fins all rich, clear 

 red, the dorsal crimson, the caudal pink, the lower fins scarlet; head pale 

 red, the lower jaw flushed as if bloody; eyes bluish or flushed with red; 

 a lustrous streak along sides; silvery below. In high coloration the 

 whole body is more or less red. Males with the head and antedorsal 

 region dusted with fine white tubercles. Length 4 inches. Head waters 

 of the Tennessee and Savannah rivers ; a surpassingly beautiful little fish, 

 abounding in rock pools at the foot of the cascades, (ruber, red; croceus, 

 saffron color.) 



Hybopsis rubricroceus, COPE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 231, pi. 28, fig. 4, Tumbling Creek, 



tributary North Fork Holston River. (Coll. Cope.) 



Hydrophlox, rubricroceus, JORDAN & BRAYTON, Bull. U. S. JNat. Mus., xn, 32, 1878. 

 Minnilus rubricroceus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 189, 1883. 



465. NOTROPIS CHLOROCEPHALUS (Cope). 



Head 4; depth 5; D. 8; A. 8; eye large, 3 in head; scales 6-39-3; teeth 

 2, 4-4, 2. Body stout, with deep caudal peduncle. Head broad, with 

 descending muzzle; mouth oblique, the maxillary reaching beyond line of 

 orbit; premaxillary opposite lower margin of pupil; interorbital space 

 greater than muzzle. Lateral line moderately decurved; 16 scales in front 

 of dorsal. Color olivaceous, everywhere dusted with blackish specks, 

 forming a lateral band which terminates in a dusky spot at base of 

 caudal; green vertebral and lateral lines; top of head and upper portion 

 of cheeks metallic green; males with the belly dark crimson, the whole 

 body more or less flushed; lower jaw not black; dorsal and caudal red at 

 base; sides of head and lateral band red; snout and antedorsal region 

 tuberculate; fins plain. Length 2i inches. Santee Basin, in North and 

 South Carolina; abundant in clear mountain streams. (^Awpof, green; 

 Kt<!>a2.Tj, head.) 



Hybopsis chlorocephalus, COPE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1870, 461, Catawba River, North 



Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Minnilus chlorocephalus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 190, 1883. 



466. NOTROPIS LUTIPINNIS (Jordan & Brayton). 



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

 Body stout and rather strongly compressed, the dorsal region somewhat 

 elevated, the outline of the back sloping each way from the dorsal fin. 



