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10. Catostomus nigricans (Le Sueur). Hoy suclcer. The young were abundant at every station. 
11. Minytrema melanops (Raflnesque) . Striped sucker. (Bea.) Found only at one station. Four 
specimens were taken, 3 small and 1 large. The lateral line was complete in the young and 
entirely absent in the adult. Scales 46. 
12. Campostoma anomalum (Raflnesque). “ Dough-belly .” Common at every station, but most 
abundant in the headwaters of rivers. 
13. Pimephales notatus (Raflnesque). Blunt-nosed minnow. (B, D, Bea.) Common at the first two 
stations named, but only a few taken at the last. 
14. Hybognathus nuchalis (Agassiz). Silvery minnow. (Bea.) Not common ; sides not punctate. 
15. Notropis deliciosus (Girard). (GE.) A very widely distributed minnow, but taken at only one 
place in the Green River system. Rare. 
16. Notropis whipplei (Girard). Blueminnow. Taken at every station ; found abundantly in nearly 
all the streams in this section, but more abundant in the larger ones. 
17. Notropis megalops (Raflnesque). Silverside; Shiner. Taken at every station, but much more 
common in the Big Barren and its tributaries than in the Green River ; only a few very young 
specimens were taken in the latter. 
18. Notropis ariommus (Cope). Big-eyed shiner. (B, LB, G, GE, D.) Not found in the streams far- 
ther west, but not uncommon in the Upper Green River and its tributaries. The specimens 
agree in most particulars with Cope’s description* of Pliotogenis ariommus, especially in the 
broad faint lateral band, but the specimens from the Green River have a dark vertebral 
band. The largest specimens from Drake Creek measured 70 millimeters long; head, 16; 
depth, 16; eye, 5|; anal rays, 9; lateral line, 37; snout very short, little more than half of 
eye. Twelve specimens were taken at the first station on the Green River, six of which 
measured as follows (in millimeters) : 
Length. 
Head. 
Eye. 
Lateral 
line. 
Eye in 
head. 
61 
16 
7 
40 
1 2.3 
61 
16 
7 
39 
2.3 
59 
15.5 
6.5 
39 
2.3 
54 
15 
6.5 
40 
2.3 
60 
16 
7 
36 
2.3 
19. Notropis umbratilis cyanocephalus (Copeland). Redfin. Taken at every station except Pit- 
man Creek, and generally common. No variation noticed except in color. 
20. Notropis dilectus (Girard). Emerald minnoiv. 
Alburnus rubrifrons Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, p. 85. 
Leuciscus rubrifrons Gunther, vix, 225. (B, D, G, GE.) Common at the stations named and 
very abundant in Drake Creek. A very handsome little minnow, varying in color in dif- 
ferent localities. In this region it is of a very dark olive-green above, with a wide, thin, 
silvery lateral band, overlying a very dark plumbeous stripe that is sharply defined, 
especially on its upper margin. Vertebral band distinct; caudal peduncle slender. Care- 
ful measurements of several specimens from different localities in this creek system show 
but little variation. Specimens from this locality are much more slender than those described 
by Cope from the Alleghany region; his measurement of depth in length, including caudal 
fin, was only 5.5. Six specimens from Drake Creek measure as follows (in millimeters) : 
Length. 
Depth. 
Head. 
Eye. 
Anal 
rays. 
Lateral 
line. 
Head in 
length. 
Depth in ! 
length. 
Eye in 
head. 
49 
9 
n+ 
4 
10 
37 
4.45 
5.44 
2. 75 
49 
■8.5 
4 
10 
38 
4.45 
5. 16 
49 
9 
11. 5 
4 
10 
40 
4. 26 
5.44 
2.75 
49 
9 
11 
4 
- 10 
37 
4.24 
5.22 
47 
8.5 
11 
4- 
10 
37 
4.24 
5. 25 
48 
9 
12 
4+ 
10 
38 
4 
5. 33 
* Synopsis Cyprinidse of Pennsylvania, p. 378, 
F. C. B. 1890—17. 
