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life the lateral stripe is bluish and overlaid with dusky spots 

 and is continued forward through the eye around the snout. 

 The fins are pale. The specimen described, no. 36746, 1:1. S. 

 National Museum, from White Eiver Ind., is 3J inches long. 



The spotted shiner occurs in the Great lakes region and Ohio 

 valley southward to Kentucky and west to Iowa. It is abun- 

 dant in creeks of western Pennsylvania. Kirtland had the spe- 

 cies from the Mahoning river and from Lake Erie. The spe- 

 cies is most common in the Great lakes and in the channels of 

 large streams, and does not run into small brooks. It is a 

 ready biter and is caught in large numbers by hook fishing. It 

 is useful as bait, being employed with minnows to bait the hooks 

 on " set lines." 



The species grows to the length of 6 inches, and derives its 

 name from the bluish band along the sides which is inter- 

 rupted so as to form spots. The sides are bright silvery in 

 color and the fins unspotted. The body is long and slender. 



Subgenus hybopsis Agassiz 

 95 Hybopsis storerianus (Kirtland) 



Lake Minnow 



Rutilus storerianus Kirtland, Proc. Boet, Soc. Nat. Hist. I, 71, 1842. (Lake 



Erie) 

 Leuciscus storerianus Kirtland, Bost. JoUTi Nat, Hist. V, 30, pi. 9, fig. 2, 



1847; GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 250, 18G8. 

 Ceraticlithys lucens Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 213, 1883. 

 Cliola storeriana Jordan & Gilbert, op. cit. 171, 1883. 

 Hyhopsis storerianus Jordan, Cat. Pish. N. A. 28, 1885; Jordan & Ever- 



MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 321, 1896. 



Body elongate, compressed, the dorsal outline ascending grad- 

 ually to origin of dorsal, thence descending to the caudal fin; 

 head short, compressed, its length four and one third in total 

 without caudal; depth of body one fourth total; eye equal to 

 snout, one third length of head; interorbital space broad, flat, 

 somewhat grooved, its width about equal to eye; preorbital 

 bone large, oblong, conspicuous, silvery; mouth rather small, 

 horizontal, the lower jaw included; edge of premaxillary below 

 level of eye; maxillary not reaching to front of orbit; barbel 



