FOWLER: NEW ENGLAND FLSHES. US 
SiLUKIDAK. 
Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur). — Examples from Mount 
Desert and Livermore, Maine (Morse). Reported from South 
Naples (Griffiths). 
Cyphinidae. 
Semotilus bullaris (Rafinesque). — Androscoggin Lake, Maine 
(Morse) and Berkshire Hills, Mass. (Cope). 
Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill). — Tributary of Penobscot 
River, Orono, in Penobscot County, Maine (Long). 
Phoxinus neogaeus Cope. — Head 3| to 4; depth 3^ to .5; D. usu- 
ally III, 7, I, rarely in, 8, i; A. usually iii, 7, i, rarely iii, 6, i or in, 
8, i; scales in lateral line to caudal base usually 80, frequently 75, 
often 73, 78, or 84, seldom 70, 77, 81, or 83, rarely 72, 76, or 82 + usu- 
ally 4, frequently 3, seldom 2, rarely 5 more on latter; pores in lateral 
line 18 to 33; usually 28 scales transversely, frequently 27, often 
29, seldom 25 or 26, rarely 30; predorsal scales usually 44, frequently 
43, often 42 or 45, occasionally 40, seldom 37, rarely 32, 33, 36, 39, 41, 
46 to 48; snout 3^^ to 3| in head; eye 3| to 4f ; maxillary 2f to 2f ; 
pharyngeal teeth usually 2.5-4.2, rarely 2?, 4-4.2? or 2.5-5?, 1? or 
2.5-5.2 or 0.5-5.1. 
Body compressed. Caudal peduncle longer than deep. Head 
compressed, sides rather flattened. Snout convex, length about 3- 
its width. Eye high, rounded, near first f in head length. Mouth 
greatly inclined, jaws about even. Maxillary mostly concealed in 
groove below preorbital, reaches eye. Nostrils about last third in 
snout. Interorbital broadly convex, flattened medially. Rakers 
about 3 + 4, short weak points. Pharyngeal teeth with ends hooked 
slightly and surfaces without grinding areas. Scales reduced or 
smaller in dorsal and ventral body edges, also small on caudal liase. 
Lateral line incomplete, extending about opposite ventral origin. 
Dorsal inserted about midway between hind edge of eye and caudal 
base. Anal inserted about opposite base of sixth dorsal ray. Caudal 
deeply emarginate, lobes rounded. Pectoral reaches about | to 
ventral, and latter inserted well before dorsal, reaches anal. 
Color in alcohol deep brown on back and head above, also median 
darker streak down predorsal and postdorsal regions. From above 
