CYPRINID^. 53 



Antwerp, Cecil, Defiance and Waterville, Tiffin river at Bruners- 

 burg, Auglaize river at Cloverdale, Sugar creek at Lima, Blanch- 

 ard river at Ottawa, Beaver creek at Grand Rapids, Kirsch, 1893 5 

 Franklin County, common in almost every stream, females with 

 eggs, July 16, Williamson and Osburn, 1897 ! Knox County, Big 

 Jelloway creek system, "abundant, females with ripe eggs on 

 May 25," Parker, Williamson and Osburn, 1898 ; Ice creek at 

 Ironton, John's creek at Waterloo, Huron river at Milan, San- 

 dusky Bay, Ashtabula creek at Ashtabula, Wabash river at 

 Celina, Stillwater and Wolf creeks near Dayton, North Fork of 

 Licking river at Newark, abundant in most places, R. C. Osburn, 

 1899 ; Pippin lake, Cuyahoga river at Hawkins, Grand river at 

 Painesville, Chagrin river at Willoughby, Wheeling creek at 

 Bridgeport, Ohio river and McMahon's Run at Bellaire, Lj eking 

 reservoir, R. C. Osburn, 1900. 



Notropis volucellus (Cope). 



Head 33^; depth 4; eye 3^. D. 8; A. 8; scales 4-34-3; teeth 4-4. Fins 

 more elongate than in related species, the pectorals reaching ventrals. Very 

 similar to JV. blennius, but distinguished especially by the noticeably higher 

 fins. Length 2^ inches. 



The only record I am able to find of the occurrence of this 

 species in Ohio is that given by Kirsch in his ' ' Report upon 

 Investigations in the Maumee River System," in which he men- 

 tions the fact that specimens from Gordon creek, taken by Prof. 

 S. E. Meek, are given him as Notropsis deliciosus var. volucella 

 Cope. Cope's volucellus is now regarded as a distinct species. 



Notropis shumardi (Girard). 



Head 3^; depth 4.I; eye very large, 2^ to 3 in head. D. 8; A. 7 or 8; 

 scales 4 or 5-36-2 to 4, 13 in front of dorsal; teeth 1, 4-4, 1, with deep grind- 

 ing surface, and the edge strongly crenate. Body compressed, the back 

 elevated; tail slender. Head compressed, flattened above, below and on the 

 sides; snout short, obtuse; mouth very oblique, terminal, lower jaw included. 

 Fins large. Lateral line complete, decurved. Color, olivaceous above, pale 

 below; a dark lateral band, and vertebral line; scales above dark-edged. 

 Length 3 inches. 



Recorded by Kirsch as N. boops Gilbert, "common in the 

 Maumee river at Grand Rapids," and " five specimens from the 



