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One specimen, inches long-, from Buffalo Bayou, I refer to this species for the 
present, though it presents some differences. The body is a little more slender, the 
mouth some larger and less inferior, and the color is darker; the dark lateral band is 
well developed and extends across the opercles and around the snout. These color 
differences, however, might well be due to the quite different characters of the streams 
from which the specimens came. 
The specimen from Buffalo Bayou measures as follows: Head, 4 ; } ; depth, 5}; eye, 
3, greater than snout; D. I, 8; A. I, 8; scales, 0-38-3; teeth, 1, 4-4, 4. Height of 
dorsal tin greater than length of head. 
9. Notropis lutrensis (B. and G.). 
Neelies River east of Palestine 1 
Trinity River, Magnolia Point, near Palestine 180 
San Marcos River, San Marcos 537 
Guadalupe River, New Braunfels 40 
San Antonio River, San Antonio 4 
This species is, as shown above, exceedingly abundant in the Trinity and San 
Marcos rivers, and is quite common at each of the other localities where specimens 
were found by us. This is one of the most variable and most widely distributed of the 
Southwestern Cyprinoids. 
10. Notropis venustus (Girard). 
Cyprinella venusta Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 198, and Mex. Bd. Survey, 54, PI. 
xxxi, Figs. 1-4, 1859 (Rio Sabinal, Texas, collected by I)r. C. B. Kennerly). 
Notropis venustus Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1886, 14 (Red River, Fulton, Ark.); 19 
(Lampasas River, Belton, Tex.); 20 (Colorado River, Austin, Tex.). 
This, one of the most attractive of Cyprinoids. is an abundant species in many of 
the streams examined by us. The following specimens are in the collection : 
Neelies River, east of Palestine, Texas 3 
Trinity River, Magnolia Point, Texas 2 
Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas 12 
Big White Bayou, Houston, Texas 19 
Hunter Creek, Houston, Texas 73 
The specimens from about Houston are very tine and large, some of them being 
as much as 4 inches long. The black caudal spot is larger and not so far back upon 
the caudal tin as shown in Girard’s figure. 
11. Notropis swaini Jordan and Gilbert. 
Alburnus megalops Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 193 (San Felipe Creek, Texas). 
Alburnellus megalops Girard, Mex. Bd. Survey, 52, PI. xxix, figs. 1-4, 1859 (.Sau Felipe Creek, 
Texas). (Name preoccupied in this genus.) 
This species is abundant in Texas, and specimens were obtained by us at the 
following places : 
Sau Marcos River, San Marcos, Texas 21 
Comal Creek, New Braunfels, Texas 36 
Drs. Jordan and Gilbert obtained this species in Comal Creek, San Marcos 
River, and the Colorado River at Austin. 
