85. PEKCID^E NANOSTOMA. 509 



dkar olive bars on the sides, which are interrupted above the lateral line ; 

 a few irregular crimson dots on the sides. Fins uniform, transparent, 

 except the first dorsal and caudal ; the former has a median series of 

 red spots, the latter is pale orange, with a black margin; no cross-bars 

 on fins in the male ; second dorsal with a black margin. Head 4 ; 

 depth 4J. D. XIV-13; A. II, 8; scales 8-53-9. L. 2 inches. French 

 Broad Elver. (Cope.} 



(Poscillchtliys vulneratus Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. Phila. 1870, 286.) 

 Jf % Species incompletely described. 



The following species have not been recognized since their original 

 description. They perhaps belong to Nothonotus. 



796. !.? tessellatws (Storer). 



"Body oblong. Head gibbous, less than one-fourth the length of 

 the body. Lateral line straight. Top of the head and upper portion 

 of the sides of a greenish-brown color; 8 or 10 transverse bluish bands 

 on the sides ; the intervals between these bands are yellowish, and in 

 the centre of each is a bluish rhomb; a black blotch at the base of the 

 tail; the lips, opercles, and rays of the first dorsal gamboge-yellow. 

 D. XII-13; P. 13; V. I, 5; A. II, 10. L. 3 inches. Florence, Ala. 

 Caught in running water." (Storer.) 



(Etheostoma tessellata Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1845: E. tessellata Storer, 

 Synopsis, 273.) 



Y97. N.? cimeire MS (Storer). 



"Body oblong, compressed. Head gibbous directly over the eyes. 

 The upper portion of the sides is of a light yellow color, crossed longi- 

 tudinally by 3 or 4 cinereous interrupted narrow bands, one or two of 

 which commence at the snout, the others back of the head, and are 

 lost anterior to the tail; between these bauds is a series of longitu- 

 dinally-arranged oval blotches, of a similar color, and from these bands 

 descend obliquely backward and downward to the abdomen narrow 

 transverse lines; lower portion of the sides yellowish-white; first dor- 

 sal margined with red; second dorsal and anal variegated with red 

 dots. D. XI-13; P. 15; V. I, 5; A. II, 8. L. 3-4 inches. Florence, 

 Ala. Caught in deep, still water when fishing for perch." (Storer.) 



(Etheostoma cinerea Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1845: E. cinerea Storer, Synop- 

 sis 273.) 



264. NANOSTOMA Putnam. 



(Putnam MSS. Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. x, 7, 1877: type Pcecilichthys zonalis Cope.) 

 Body fusiform, not greatly compressed. Mouth small, subinferior, 



