Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 287 



Head short and rather deep, broad and flattish above, the muzzle moder- 

 ately rounded. Eye rather large. Mouth rather large, but smaller than 

 in the preceding, quite oblique, the maxillary reaching orbit; mandi- 

 ble included; 18 scales in front of dorsal. In life clear olive, with very 

 intense green dorsal and vertebral lines; an intense metallic blackish 

 band along sides; below this the sides are bright silvery; the whole body 

 in the males bright, clear red; head and fins all bright golden yellow, 

 with no red; tip of lower jaw black. Length 3 inches. Small clear 

 streams of the pine woods, tributary to the Santee and Oconee rivers; 

 rare, (luteus, yellow; pinna, fin.) 



Hmlrophlox lutipinnis, JORDAN & BRAYTON, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xn, 36, 1878, Oconee River, 



Hall's Springs, Georgia. (Type, No. 31090. Coll. Jordau & Brayton.) 

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

 Notropis lutipinnis, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vm, 1888, (1891), 157. 



467. NOTROPIS CHILITICUS (Cope). 



Head 4; depth 5-J; eye large, 3 in head, longer than muzzle. D. 8; A. 8; 

 scales 7-36-2; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. Body elliptical. Head broad behind; occiput 

 convex. Muzzle acuminate, greater than interorbital width. Maxillary 

 extending beyond anterior rim of orbit; premaxillaries opposite middle of 

 pupil; lateral line strongly decurved. Dorsal fin small. Olivaceous, a dis- 

 tinct silvery lateral band; usually a dark caudal spot; dorsal scales brown- 

 edged; males with the lips and snout vermilion; a vermilion band through 

 dorsal and one through anal fin. Length 2 inches. Allied to N. altipinnis, 

 but more slender, with larger mouth. Basin of the Great Pedee River, 

 North Carolina, common in upland streams. (^Aof, lip.) 



Hybopsis cltiliticus, COPE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1870, 462, Yadkin River, Roane 

 County, North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 



468. NOTROPIS ALTIPINNIS (Cope). 



Head 4 ; depth 3 ; eye very large, longer than snout, 2f in head. D. 8; 

 A. 9 ; scales 5-36-2. Allied to N. chalylceus, but more robust in form. Body 

 rather short and deep ; head short, compressed. Ventrals extending to 

 beyond last rays of dorsal, reaching anal. Dorsal elevated, its height 

 equal to half its distance from the snout. Scales before dorsal small. 

 Greenish; a lateral silvery band, strongly punctate with black; a black 

 baud across eye and snout ; lower jaw always blackish ; young with a 

 black caudal spot; no black at base of anal; snout yellowish; vertical 

 fins light reddish in life. Length 2i inches. Clear streams of the pine 

 woods, tributary to the Great Pedee and Cape Fear rivers; abundant. 

 (altus, high ; pinna, fin.) 



Alburnellus altipinnis, COPE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1870, 464, Yadkin River, Roane 



County, North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Minnilws altipinnis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 195, 1883. 



469. NOTROPIS ROSEUS (Jordan). 



Head 4 ; depth 4-J- ; eye nearly 3. A. 7, never 8, as in the related 

 N. dialylcem. Scales 5-38-5 ; teeth 2, 4-4, 2. Body short and stout, little 



