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2G PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Vol. LXXIV 



cinereum Storer 4 is .•mother synonym. 



According to the original account of Etheostoma maculata Kirt- 

 land, the dorsal fins are connected and the anal has only a single 

 spin 



Po( dlichthys squamiveps (Jordan). 



Bead 3|; depth 5; 1). XI— i, 11; A. II, 8; scales 51 or 52 in 

 lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 5 scales above 

 1. 1., 7 below; predorsal scales 11 or 12; snout 4j to 4| in head; 

 eye 3 to 3|; maxillary 3| to 4; interorbital If in eye. Body 

 moderately long, compressed. Head obtuse, compressed. Snout 

 convex in profile and over surface, length \ its width. Eye elevated, 

 well advanced, greater than snout or interorbital. Mouth little 

 inclined, small, jaws nearly even. Maxillary reaches eye. Inter- 

 orbital shallowly concave. Gill-rakers 3+8, lanceolate, moderate. 

 Gill-membranes broadly free across isthmus. Cheeks and opercles 

 scaly. Breast naked. Belly scaled and predorsal scales fine. 

 Scales with 7 to 9 radiating coarse striae, apical denticles 16 or 

 17. large, basal elements in 3 or 4 rows. Lateral line complete. 

 Color in alcohol pale olivaceous above, under surface white. 

 Down middle of back, six deep brown blotches. Along lateral 

 line, ten dusky rings with dark bar from lower edge of each, some 

 reaching anal and others extending over lower surface of caudal 

 peduncle. Small blackish spot at caudal base medially, one above 

 and another below marginally or at origin of each lobe. Deep 

 dusky brown line from snout tip, meets its fellow above upper 

 lip, to eye. Blackish bar below eye and blotch close behind. Max- 

 illary end dusky and dusky bar across mandible medianly. Dorsals 

 and caudal barred with dusky, other fins pale. Length 38 or 39 

 mni.. t wo examples. 



No mention seems to have been made, by the various writers 

 supposed to have obtained this species, of the dark color pattern 

 extending to the anal base and on the lower surface of the caudal 

 peduncle. My examples appear to agree best with the original 

 account of Etheostoma squamiceps Jordan. 6 



4 L. c, p. 49. Florence, Alabama. 



' Boston .Tourn. Nat. Hist., 3, 1840, p. 276 PI. 2. fig. 3. Mahoning, Ohio. 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 10, 1877. p. 11. Russellville, Kentucky. 



