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forward. Head moderate, greatly obtuse. Snout obtusely convex, 

 both in profile and over surface, length | its width. Eye anterior 

 to head center, elevated. Mouth small, but little inclined, lower jaw 

 slightly included. Maxillary reaches eye. Interorbital slightly 

 concave. Gill-rakers 2+7, lanceolate, short. Gill-membrane 

 a broad fold over isthmus. Cheeks and 'breast naked, opercles 

 scaly. Preclorsal scales small and crowded. Scales with 10 basal 

 radiating striae, apical denticles 23 or 24, with basal elements in 

 3 to 5 rows, circuli coarse. Color in alcohol pale olivaceous above 

 generally. Down back medially nine dark brown saddles, usually 

 alternately dark and pale. Back marked with many waved, dusky 

 specks, bars or blotches. Along lateral line twelve vertical 

 blotches, mostly below. Upper surface of snout speckled with 

 dark brown, bounded below by dusky bar from close to snout tip, 

 though above upper lip, to eye. Broader dusky bar below eye. 

 Dorsal spines each with five broad dusky blotches, last four on 

 membranes usually with blackish streaks parallel with spines 

 terminally. Soft dorsal and caudal barred with dusky. Pectoral 

 pale or only with faint bars. Five examples, 38 to 45 mm. 



Boleosoma nigrum (Rafinesque). Ten, all small and pale. 



Poecilichthys maculatus (Kirtland). 



Head 3£ to 3f; depth 5| to 6; D. XII— i, 11; A. II, 8 or 9; 

 scales 46 to 53 in median lateral series to caudal base, and 3 or 4 

 more on latter; 38 to 41 tubular scales in lateral line, 6 above, 

 6 or 7 below; preclorsal scales 12 or 13; snout 3^ to 4 in head; eye 

 3| to 3|; maxillary 3j to 3|; interorbital 2 to 2| in eye. 

 Body long, slender, but little compressed. Snout convex, both 

 in profile and over surface, pointed, about long as wide. Eye 

 advanced, elevated, nearly or quite long as snout. Mouth but 

 slightly inclined, mandible included. Maxillary slightly beyond 

 front eye edge. Interorbital narrowly concave. Gill-rakers 2+9, 

 rather short, obtuse. Gill-membranes deeply cleft. Cheeks and 

 breast naked, postocular and opercles scaled. Preclorsal scales 

 reduced. Scales with basal radiating striae 10 or 11, apical denticles 

 21 to 24, with basal elements in 3 or 4 rows. Lateral line incomplete, 

 usually not extending beyond soft dorsal, occasionally to middle 

 of caudal peduncle side. Color in alcohol, pale olivaceous above, 

 with six dark saddles down middle of back. Scales on back more 

 or less bordered dusky or brown. Along sides ten or eleven w-like 

 dusky blotches. At caudal base medianly jet-black blotch, about 

 size of pupil. Dorsals and caudal barred with dusky. Broad dusky 

 bar on side of snout to eye, also dusky blotch below and behind 

 eye. Paired fins and anal pale or whitish, few dusky specks close 

 about base of latter. Six examples, 35 to 45 mm. 



The Bellemina example, with ten branched anal rays is greatly 

 suggestive of Etheostoma tessellata Storer 3 . Quite likely Etheostoma 



3 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 2, 1845, p. 48. Florence, Alabama. 



