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Head four and one sixth; depth four and one half; eye three 

 and one half. Scales 36; before dorsal 14. Teeth 4-4. Allied 

 to N. h e t e r o d o n, from which it may be best known by the 

 absence of black on the chin. Lateral line wanting on some 

 scales; mouth very small, anterior, the maxillary not reaching 

 the eye; jaws subequal; eye large, equal to snout. Scales above 

 dark edged, the outlines very sharply defined; chin not black; a 

 black stripe through snout and eye, a dusky lateral shade and a 

 small caudal spot. Length 2J inches. Cayuga lake and north- 

 ern New York, west,ward to Assiniboia, South Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, Kansas and Arkansas. Not rare, but hitherto usually 

 confounded with N. heterodon. (After Jordan and Ever- 

 mann) * 



Several examples were taken by Dr Meek near Ithaca. The 

 longest was 2| inches'. He also obtained it from the canal 

 near Montezuma N. Y. 



The U. S. Fish Commission parties secured this minnow in 

 many localities in 1894. 



Mouth of Little Salmon creek July 25 



Chaumont river July 10 



Black creek, tributary of Oswego river July IT 



Three Mile creek, Oswego July 27 



Great Sodus bay Aug. & 



Guffon creek, Chaumont July T 



Four Mile creek, Nine Mile point, Webster Aug. 9 



Cemetery creek, Watertown July 5 



Mud creek. Cape Vincent June 25 



Mill creek, Sacketts Harbor July 2 



80 Notropis hetef odon (Cope) 



Alhurnops Jieterodon Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 281, 1864. 



Eyhopsis heterodon Cope, Cypr. Penrna. 382, 1866. 



Leuciseus heterodon Gunthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. YII, 261, 1868. 



Eermtremia heterodon Joedan, Man. Vert. 303, 1878; Joedan & Gilbert, 



Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 163, 1883. 

 Notropis heterodon Joedan, Cat. Fish. N. A. 22, 1885; Jordan & Evermann, 



Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 261, 1896. 



Head four; depth four; eye three in head. D. S; A. 8. Scales 

 5-36-3, the lateral line extending about half the length of 



