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sides and below deep crimson; fins orange. Above blackish, scales dark-edged. 

 Dermal tubercles on top of head only in the breeding season. 

 Abundant in the head-waters of the James and Roanoke Rivers. 



HYPSILEPIS Baird. 

 See a revision of this genus in Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sciences, 1867, 158. 



Hypsilepis cornutus Mitch. Girard. 

 Common in all the streams examined ; the varieties cerasinus in the Roanoke, and 

 frontalis Agass. in the Holston. 



Hypsilepis coccogenis Cope. 

 Loc. cit. 



From the streams of the Holston, where it is one of the most abundant species. 



Hypsilepis galacturus Cope. 

 Loc. cit. 



With the last, and equally abundant. 



Hypsilepis analostanus Girard, Cope. 

 From the head-waters of the James, but especially abundant in the main stream of 

 the Kanawha. 



Hypsilepis ardens Cope. 

 Loc. cit. 

 This delicate and brilliant species was only seen in the Roanoke. 



PHOTOGENIS Cope. 

 For an essay on this genus see Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sci. 1867, 163. 



Photogenis leucops Cope. 

 Abundant in tributaries of the Kanawha. 



Photogenis telescopus Cope. 

 Loc. sup. cit. 



Common in the tributaries of the Holston. 



Photogenis leuciodus Cope. 

 From the Holston River near Saltville. 



Photogenis scabriceps Cope. 

 Not scarce in Sinking Creek, Walker's Creek, and other tributaries of the 

 Kanawha, in whose channels it also occurs. 



