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6. Catostomus nigricans Le Stxeur. Hog sucker; stone roller. 



Common in most streams examined. Three specimens, 3 to 3.75 inches long, from Ball Creek; 

 two, 2 and 4 inches long, from Tennessee River; four, 4.5 to 9.5 inches long, from Eastaunaula Creek; 

 one of 5 inches long, from Amwine Spring; four, 3 to 3.5 inches long, from Tellico River; and one 3 

 inches long, from Chickamauga Creek. Specimens also from Indian Creek, Roaring Foik, and Clinch 

 River. 



7. Moxostoma aureoliun (Le Sueur). Common redhorse. 



Abundant nearly everyivhere. Twenty-eight specimens, 2.3 to 3.73 inches long, from Indian 

 Creek; twelve, 2.23 to 3 inches long, from Ball Creek; twelve, 2.73 to 3 inches long, from Clinch River; 

 one 2.73 inches long, from Nolichucky River; five, 3.73 to 8.3 inches long, from Roaring Fork; six, 

 2.3 to 6.23 inches long, from Tennessee River; one 9 inches long, from Amwine Spring Creek; and 

 six, 4 to 9 inches long, from Chickamauga Creek. 



The free edge of the dorsal fin is slightly concave in all our specimens. 



Fig. 



-Moxosioma aureolum. Common redhorse. 



8. Placopharynx duquesnii (Le Sueur). Big-toothed sucker. 



A fine specimen of this species was examined by the senior writer on July 4, 1878, at Alexander's on 

 the French Broad River, from which the fish was caught. 



9. Campostoma anomaliun (Rafinesque). Stone roller; rot-gut minnow. 



Abundant in most places. Forty-seven specimens, 2 to 6 inches long, from Indian Creek; seventeen, 

 1.73 to 4.75 inches long, from Ball Creek; three, each 2.73 inches long, from Clinch River; thirty-six, 

 2.25 to 3.3 inches long, from Roaring Fork; fifty-four, 1.3 to 3.73 inches long, from Eastaunaula Creek; 

 and one 4.73 inches long, from Chickamauga Creek. It was also found in the Tellico River. 



10. Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque). Red-bellied dace. 

 Observed only in Roaring Fork. 



11. Pimephales notatus Rafinesque. Blunt-nosed minnow. 



Found by us only in Chickamauga Creek, from which we have two specimens each 2 inches long. 



12. Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill). Homed dace; creek chub. 



Two specimens, 3.5 and 5.3 inches long, from Ball Creek; four, 4.23 to 3.25 inches long, from Eastau- 

 naula Creek; and one 2.25 inches long, from Norvel Spring. 



13. Cllola vigilaz (Baird & Girard). 



One specimen, 2.3 inches long, from Ball Creek; fourteen, 1.3 to 2.23 inches long, from Clinch 

 River; three, 2 to 2.23 inches long, from Tennessee River; and three, 1.73 to 2.3 inches long, from 

 Chickamauga Creek. 



