512 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY - IV. 



O2. I. i IB scrip tuna Jordan & Brayton. 



Body rather stout and deep, strongly compressed. Caudal peduncle 

 rather deep. Ilead large, rather obtuse, the profile quite gibbous, a 

 considerable angle formed opposite the eyes, which are high up and close 

 together. Eye about equal to snout, 3i in head. Mouth moderate, 

 slightly oblique, the maxillary reaching eye, the upper jaw the longer. 

 Head entirely scaleless; neck above scaly; breast naked; belly closely 

 scaled; scales large. Fins large; spinous dorsal longer than soft dorsal, 

 which is somewhat larger than the anal ; the two dorsals connected by 

 membrane; dorsal spines a little more than half the length of the head; 

 pectorals large. Color olive, with a bright scarlet spot on each scale, 

 these forming continuous lines along the rows of scales; 3 dark blotches 

 across the back ; one in front of dorsal, forming a black spot on the ante- 

 rior spioes; one between the two dorsal fins, forming a similar black spot 

 on the last rays of the spinous dorsal ; and one on the caudal peduncle, 

 behind the second dorsal; sides with about G irregular dark-olive blotches 

 just below the lateral line ; edge of spiuous dorsal black, below this bright 

 orange-red, a dusky bar at the base; entire anal fin, cheeks, opercles, and 

 a bar below the eye bright blue; females without red spots, the sides 

 blotched. Head 4|; depth 4. IX XI-12; A. II, 8; scales 5-40-j. L. 

 2 inches. Oconee Eiver, Georgia; one of the most beautiful of the 

 group. 



(XothonotuH inscr'qilus Jordan & Brayton, Bull. U. S. Nut. Mus. xii, 34, 1878.) 

 265. ETIIEOSTOMA Rafincsqne,. 



(Catonotus Agassiz. ) 

 (Rafincsqno, Jonrn. do Physique, 1819, 419: type Etheosloma flabcllaris Raf.) 



r><xly elongate, compressed. Mouth terminal, more or less oblique; 

 upper jaw not protractile. Vomerine teeth present; teeth in the jaws 

 stron-, tli< outer series canine-like. Opercular spine well developed. 

 (lill-mrmltraiu's broadly united. Scales rather large. Lateral line 

 incomplete; an enlarged, black humeral scale. First dorsal fin low, 

 considerably lower than the second dorsal, of 7 to subequal spines, 

 which, in the males, end in little fleshy knobs; anal fin smaller than 

 the second dorsal, with - spines, the first of which is always the larger. 

 Vertebra- (/,'. lincolatinii) 11 + 21; si/e small. Coloration dark. The 

 species arc extremely quirk in their movements, and their coloration, 

 although not gaudy, is very elegant. 



(Tli<' -wnnl I'.tlnoaltiiini Is st.itnl liy IJaliiH'sqnr t<> mean " rarioxs mouths," the species 

 known to him i. c., 1'crcina caprodcn, D'tplcsinm blcnnioidcs, and Etkeostoma Jlabcllare 



