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dd. Body comparatively deep, compressed. 



793. Uf. inaculatus (Kirtland) Ag. 



Body moderately elongate, deep, and compressed. Head long and 

 rather pointed. Mouth rather large ; jaws equal. Dorsal fin elevated, 

 the longest rays reaching caudal. Olive green ; sides with rather large 

 spots of brilliant carmine ; vertical fins more or less barred with red 

 and white. Head 4; depth 4f. D. XII-13; A. II, 8; Lat. L CO. L. 

 2 inches. Mahoning Kiver, Ohio ; not yet recognized elsewhere. 



(Ethfostoma maculata Kirtland, Boat. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1640, 276 : E. maculata Storer, 

 Synopsis, 270: Nothonotus maculatus Agassiz, Bull. M. C. Z. 1863, 3: Ifothonotus inacu- 

 latus Jordan, Man. Vert. 225.) 



cc. Scales larger ; lateral line 43 to 47 ; body stout. 



794. IV. rufilineatus (Cope) Jor. 



Stout, the dorsal line elevated and descending regularly from the base 

 of the first dorsal to the end of the muzzle. Muzzle short, regularly 

 conic, about equal to eye, which is smaller than usual, 4 in head. 

 Dorsal well developed ; caudal peduncle deep ; caudal fin small, trun- 

 cate. Scales large. Color pale olive, with numerous narrow longi- 

 tudinal lines, each on the adjacent margins of two rows of scales; these 

 lines include a number of quadrate spots of a mahogany or brick-red 

 color, which alternate with each other, but are not regular in position 

 or number; pectoral region bright turquoise blue; belly bright reddish 

 orange; head with two longitudinal mahogany-colored bands, and a spot 

 of the same below the eye; five red spots on each side of the head, one 

 on operculum, preoperculum, suboperculum, and on each lip; fins all 

 broadly crimson-bordered, the anal and caudal with narrow black 

 edging; two orange areas at base of caudal ; anal vermilion, with yel- 

 low base and black margin on posterior half. Females more olivaceous, 

 id .sen rely barred and with the fins speckled. Head 4; depth 44. D. 

 XI-12; A. II, 8; scales 0-45-7. L. 3 inches. French Broad Kiver, 

 "\Vann Springs, N. C. (Cope.} 



(I'n;-ilirl,tliyn nijiliiinilHsCoiw, I'roc. Am. Philos. Soc. Phila. 1870, 267.) 



11). Dorsal spim-s 11 ; scales small; lat. 1. 53; back not arched. 



791. N. vialsacr:atHK (Cope) Jor. 



Body fusiform, stout. Caudal peduncle very deep. Dorsal outline 

 scan-civ arched: top of head gently and regularly curved to the end 

 of the mu//le, much as in ^.mnnjnijliiiifi. Orbit four times in length of 

 head, equal to mii/./le. First dorsal not low ; caudal truncate, rounded ; 

 anal small; scales small. Color light olive, with about eight vertical 



