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band, which is widened into several dusky spots, formed by darkpunctu- 

 lations, and most distinct posteriorly ; a dusky band on head, through 

 eyes and snout ; fins plain. Length 3 to 4 inches. Lake Erie to the head- 

 waters of the Tennessee, west to Arkansas and Iowa; rather common in 

 the river channels, (dissimilis, not similar, to other shiners.) 



Lnxiltis dissimilis, KIRTLAND, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., in, 1840, 341, pi. iv, fig. 2, Mahoning 



River, Ohio, and Lake Erie, near Cleveland. 

 Ceratichtli>/s dissimilis, COPE, Cypr. Perm., 3G7, 1866; GONTHER, Cat., vn, 177, 1868; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 215, 1883. 



529. HYBOPSIS WATAUGA, Jordan & Evermann. 



Head 4i; depth 5| to b: D. 7; A. 7; scales 5-48 to 52-4, 20 to 24 before 

 dorsal ; teeth 44, small, hooked, with slight grinding surface. Body more 

 elongate than in H. dissimilis, the scales smaller and the coloration less 

 variegated. Olivaceous, with a bluish lateral stripe not so wide as eye 

 passing around snout ; on this stripe 8 to 12 blackish spots, diffuse and 

 smaller than eye, one of these at base of caudal ; a dark speck on front 

 of opercle; fins plain. Length 4 inches. Known from Holston River, 

 Virginia ; Watauga River, Tennessee ; White River, Arkansas ; Big Barren 

 River, Kentucky ; and Tippecanoe River, Indiana; probably abundant and 

 apparently replacing H. dissimilis in mountain streams ; size usually larger 

 than in H. dissimilis. 



Hybopsis watauga, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 355, Watauga River, Eliz- 

 abethtown, Tennessee ; North Fork Holston River, Saltville, Virginia. (Type, 

 No. 39929. Coll. Jordan, Jenkins, & Evermann.) WOOLMAN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xn, 

 1892, 258. 



Subgenus HYBOPSIS. 

 530. HYBOPSIS LABROSUS (Cope). 



Head 4i; depth 4J. D. 8; A. 7; scales 5-34 to 40-3; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. 

 Body long and slender, little compressed. Head rather long, narrow, and 

 pointed, very slender in young specimens, stouter in adults. Snout 

 decurved in profile, long, overhanging the large mouth ; lips much thick- 

 ened, the lower with an internal fringe of papillsB ; barbels extremely 

 long, more than half diameter of eye. Eye moderate, nearly median, 3 

 in head. Scales moderate, closely imbricated, 16 in front of dorsal. Fins 

 rather small ; caudal deeply forked, its peduncle long and slender. Males 

 dark steel blue, with black markings on back and especially at base of 

 dorsa. ; females very pale silvery, with a blue streak along sides of tail. 

 A small round black spot at base of caudal ; a dark lateral streak, obso- 

 lete anteriorly ; large specimens with a large dark patch on the last rays 

 of the dorsal, as in Notropis wJiipplii ; base of the caudal with dark points j 

 males in spring with the head and neck profusely tuberculate and the fins 

 flushed with crimson. Length 3 inches. Basin of the Santee, in North 

 and South Carolina ; common, (Idbrosus, thick-lipped.) 



Ceratichthys labrosiis, COPE, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 1870, 458, tributaries of Catawba River, 

 McDowell and Burke counties, North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 



Ceratichthys zanemus, JORDAN & BRAYTON, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xn, 1878, 24, Saluda River, 

 Greenville, North Carolina. (Type, No. 31126. Coll. Jordan & Brayton.) 



Ceratichthys labrosus and zanemus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 217, 1883. 



