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the premaxillaries not protractile. Yoraerine teeth very feeble or 

 wanting. Scales large. Gill-membranes broadly connected; no en- 

 larged ventral plates. Lateral line complete. Dorsals well separated, 

 the second larger than anal, higher and shorter than spinous dorsal ; 

 dorsal spines about 10; anal spines 2. (vavo?, small; <rr,ua, mouth.) 



a. Cheeks, opercles, and throat closely scaled. . 



79. N. zoiialc (Cope) Jor. 



Body slender, somewhat compressed. Head small, rather short; the 

 mouth small, subinferior. Snout decurved, rather obtuse, maxillary 

 not reaching front of eye. Cheeks, opercles, neck, and throat closely 

 scaled. Eye rather large. Teeth very feeble, those on the vomer not 

 evident; probably none on the palatines. First dorsal well developed, 

 separated from the second, which is higher and shorter than the spin- 

 ous dorsal, and considerably larger than the anal; caudal emargiuate. 

 Bright olivaceous above, golden below; 6 dark-brown quadrate dorsal 

 spots, which connect by alternating spots with a broad brown lateral 

 band, from which 8 narrower dark-bluish bands more or less completely 

 encircle the belly ; paired, anal; and caudal fins golden, brown-spotted ; 

 middle half of the first dorsal crimson; a series of round crimson spots 

 near the base of the second dorsal; occiput, a baud on muzzle and one 

 bdow eye black; a black spot on operculum and one at base of pec- 

 toral; females duller and speckled with veutrals barred and lateral 

 bars feebler. Head 4; depth 5. D. XI-12; A. II, 7; scales 11-50-12. 

 L. 3 inches. Mississippi Valley, in clear streams; rather rare. 



(Pcccilichthu* zonalis Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1638, 212; Jordan, Man. 

 Vert. 2'>5: A/M/as/owa vinciipes Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mns. ii, 236, 1879; the female.) 



799. If. eBofjaGBS Hay. 



Body stout, somewhat compressed. Head short and deep, with 

 swollen cheeks. Snout abruptly decurved. Mouth stibterminal, hori- 

 zontal, small, the maxillary not reaching the front of the eye. Eye 4 

 in head. Lateral liue nearly straight. Checks, opercles, and back of 

 neck scaly; chest and region just behind ventrals naked. Spinons 

 dorsal half as high as long, a little longer than the head; soft dorsal 



IS Ion- as head and j; as high as long; anal : | lenglh of head, as high 

 as long; pectoral tins very large, reaching beyond ventrals to verit. 

 ( 'olor purplish ; < large quadrate black blotches along back and 8 broad 

 transverse bars along sides fainter, these alternating with dark spots} 

 many of the scales above with jet-black spots forming longitudinal 

 streaks; two black spots at base of caudal; a few black spots behind 



