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the total without caudal. The caudal peduncle is short and 

 deep, its least depth about one half the head. The snout is 

 short and obtusely conical, its length somewhat greater than 

 the eye and nearly equal to one third of the head. The maxilla 

 reaches to below the nostrils, its length equaling that of the 

 snout. Head four and one fifth in total to base of caudal. The 

 dorsal origin is nearly over the ventral origin and in the vertical 

 through the 23d scale of the lateral line. The dorsal base is 

 about one half as long as the head, and its longest ray equals 

 twice the distance from the dorsal origin to middle of eye.* The 

 pectoral is about as long as the longest dorsal ray, and the 

 ventral reaches to the anal origin. The base of the anal is one 

 half as long as the longest anal ray. The caudal is moderately 

 forked. D. 8; A. 7. Scales 9-54-6; teeth 1, 4-4, 1. Length of 

 specimen described, 4| inches; from Takoma Park D. 0. Color 

 brown or olivaceous, darker above; a short and narrow dark 

 bar above root of pectoral; young with a dusky bar at the caudal 

 base. Fins dusky, their extremities pale. 



The cut-lips may be readily distinguished by the three-lobed 

 lower jaw, the dentary bones being closely united and the lower 

 lip represented by a fleshy lobe on each side of the mandible. 



The cut-lips is known also as chub, butter chub, nigger chub, 

 and day chub. It is a very common species in the Susquehanna 

 and its tributaries. Its range is not extensive, reaching only 

 from western New York to Virginia. In New York it occurs 

 in Lake Ontario, the St Lawrence, Lake Champlain, Cayuga lake, 

 ^nd the Hudson river. The U. S. Fish Commission has it from 

 the following New York localities in the Lake Ontario basin: 



Mouth Salmon river, Selkirk. 



Big Sandy creek, Belleville. 



Wart creek, Buena Vista. 



Little Stony brook, Henderson bay. 



Big Stony creek, Henderson Harbor. 



Spring brook, Pulaski. 



Black river, Huntingtonville. 



All of thes.e were obtained in July, 1894. Evermann and Bean 

 collected it also in the St Lawrence, 3 miles below Ogdensburg, 



