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Represented east of the Allegbanies by the slim-bodied 

 498e. NOTROPIS UMBRATILIS ARDENS (Cope). 



Slender and brilliantly colored, the depth 4 in males ; eye 3 in head. 

 Steel blue, the fins bright red, base of dorsal largely black. Roanoke 

 River, Virginia. A beautiful inhabitant, with Notropis cerasinus, of the 

 clear mountain streams, (ardens, burning.) 



Hi/i>silcpis anlens, COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867,163, headwaters of Roanoke River, 



Montgomery County, Virginia. (Coll. Cope.) 

 /., HefccM <ml,-its, GUNTHER, Cat., vii, 257, 1868. 

 Miniiilus ardens, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 198, 1883. 



Represented in Tennessee and northern Alabama by 



498f. NOTROPIS UMBRATILIS FASCIOLARIS, Gilbert. 



Body usually deep, the males with 5 to 8 dark blue vertical crossbars 

 as in Notropis cerasinus. Colors brilliant. Southern bend of Tennessee 

 River, in limestone streams ; abundant, (fasciolaris, with small cross 

 bands.) 



Notropis umbralilis fasciolaris, GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., ix, 1889, (1891), 148, streams 

 about Florence, Alabama. (Type, No. 42504. Coll. Gilbert & Swain.) 



Represented in the Carolina pine woods by the slender and pale 

 498g. NOTROPIS UMBRATILIS MATUTINUS (Cope). 



Head 4i; depth 5i; eye 3|. D. 8; A. 11; scales 7-44-3. Body slender; 

 eye large, scarcely longer than muzzle, equal to interorbital width. 

 Olivaceous above; the scales brown-shaded; a plumbeous lateral band 

 with dark points; a small black spot at base of dorsal in front, preceded 

 by a dark streak along middle of back; a dark spot at base of caudal. 

 Males with the snout, chin, and upper half of dorsal red. Length 2J 

 inches. Neuse and Pamlico rivers; common in sandy brooks, with Notro- 

 pis albeolus. (matutimis, of the morning, rosy.) 



AlburnellM mitlntimis, COPE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1870, 465, Neuse River, Wake 



County, North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Minnilus matutinw, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 199, 1883. 

 Notropis watutinus, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vm, 1888, 125. 



Represented in tributaries of the lower Mississippi by the deep-bodied 

 498h. NOTROPIS UMBHATILIS PUNCTULATUS (Hay). 



Head 4f ; depth 4; eye moderate, 3. D. 8; A. 10 or 11 ; scales 11-49-3; 

 teeth 2, 4-4, 2, with grinding surface. Body short, deep, compressed; 

 back elevated in front of dorsal. Head short and deep; the profile nearly 

 straight; mouth large, quite oblique, maxillary reaching front of orbit. 

 Scales small, 25 in front of dorsal. Lateral line much decurved. Dorsal 

 beginning midway between muzzle and base of caudal. Straw color; 

 silvery on sides and below ; scales above dark-edged; a dark dorsal line; 

 a dark band on caudal peduncle; a small black spot at base of dorsal. 

 Length 2 inches. Tributaries of Big Hatchee River, northern Mississippi . 

 (Hay.) (punctulatus, speckled.) 



