1870.] 459 epee) 
Color in life silvery, with a double series of black specks along the lat- 
eral line, and a lateral band of dusted blaékish; a dark line round 
muzzle between orbits. Membrane of dorsal fin often shaded with 
blackish. 
Common in creeks heading the Catawba R., in Macdowell Co., N. Ca., 
or tributary to the Yadkin River in Roane Co., in the same State. 
37. CERATICHTHYS HYALINUS, Cope. 
Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1868, 226. 
From the French Broad and Clinch Rivers in North Carolina and Ten- 
nessee ; not found east of the Alleghenies. 
38. CERATICHTHYS BIGUTTATUS, Kirtl. 
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1866, 366. 
Found in the rivers of East Tennessee and North Carolina, from the 
heads of the Cumberland, to, and including, the Neuse. 
ARGYREUS, Heckel. 
39. ARGYREUS LUNATUS, Cope. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1864, 278. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1868, 228, Tab. 
23, fig. 3. 
Common in the tributaries of the French Broad and Holston Rivers, in 
North Carolina and Tennessee. The absence of any species of this genus 
in the rivers of North Carolina east of the Alleghenies is a peculiar feature. 
They no doubt occur in the Roanoke, asI have taken A. atronasus from 
that river in Virginia. 
HYPSILEPIS, Baird. 
40. HypsILEPIS COCCOGENIS, Cope. 
Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1867, 160. 
Common in the French Broad and Clinch Rivers. Not found in the 
Beech Fork of the head of the Cumberland. 
41. HypsILEPIs cornutTus, Mitch. 
Var. frontalis, Agass., Cope, l. c., 158. 
Abundant in Coal Creek, a tributary of the Clinch River in Tennessee : 
Var. cornutus, Cope, 1. c. From the Neuse River. 
42. HypsILEPIS ANALOSTANUS, Girard. 
Cope, 1. c., p. 161. 
Found in abundance in the Catawba River, but nowhere in the tribu- 
taries of the Tennessee or Cumberland. Found in the Neuse River. 
43. HyPsILEPIS GALACTURUS, Cope. 
Loc. cit., 160. : 
Most common in all the tributaries of the French Broad, Clinch and 
Cumberland. It does not occur east of the Alleghenies. 
