496 ADDBITDA. 



8. (b) CYPRINELLA, Girard. 



1. a. fonbesi, Jordan. Foebbs' Red -Fish. Body 

 short, very deep, much compressed, the depth 3 in 

 length; color in life chiefly red, a violet crescent behind 

 opercle; fins plain red; head and caudal peduncle pro- 

 fusely tuberoulate; A. I, 8; lat. 1. 35; teeth 4— 4. South- 

 ern Illinois, an elegant little fish. 



On page 323, et. seq. Generic names ending in the 

 Greek neuter roots '■'■soma" '■^ stoma" '■'•isma" etc., 

 have been in this work considered as Latin feminine 

 nouns, and the adjective has been made to agree with 

 them accordingly, as " Boleosoma m,aculata" " Eiheos- 

 toma flabellaris." This was done in deference to cer- 

 tain recent authorities in classical matters, who regayd 

 such latinized words ending in a as feminine. It is 

 ' probably better, however, to follow the common custom, 

 and to consider them as neuter, until some other rule is 

 definitely adopted. 



