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longs to the family of Labrides, and is distinguished from all 

 t;Jie otlter genera by its barbs. The real name means bearded 

 mouth. It was the loth genus of my prod, of 70 new genera. 

 20th Species. White-eyes Barbot. Pogostoma leucosis; 

 Barbotte cEuilblanc. 



Brown, with five black curved streaks, two on each side and 

 one on the back, lateral line curved joining the lower streak: 

 whitish beneath; a row of transversal lunulate, geminate and 

 black lines, between the two lateral streaks, six similar ones on 

 the gill cover: a large »vhite and round patch surrounding the 

 eyes: tail forked: vent posterior. 



A beautiful fish: shape of sunfish: length sometimes twelve 

 inches and weight one pound. It is found in the lower part of 

 the Ohio and in the Mississippi; but is a rare fish. It haS 

 great many vulgar names, such as White-eyes, Spectacles-fishj 

 Streaked Sunfish, Black Sunfish, Barbot, Bearc'ed ^unfish, &c. 

 and the French settlers call it Barbotte, Poisso ■ 1 nette, and 

 GE,uilblanc. It does not bite the hook, and is only takea 

 with the seine. The row of lunulated lateral lines have the 

 convexity towards the head and extend through the tail. The 

 two dorsal fins are short and trapezoidal, anal fins very small. 

 Pectoral long. Thoracic under their hind part. Convexity of 

 the three pairs of lines on the opercule, looking upwards. Eyes 

 small and black, iris narrow and yellow, the white patch appears 

 as a second iris. Chin and forehead between the eyes depres- 

 sed, which form a kind of rounded snout, mouth small, jaws e- 

 qual. I describe it from a drawing of Mr. Audubon. 



IX Genus. Hogfish. Etheostoma. Etheostome. 

 Body nearly cylindrical and scaly. Mouth variable witli^ 

 small teeth. Gill cover double or triple unserrate, with a spine 

 on the opercule and without scales: six branchial rays. Thora- 

 cic fins with six rays, one of which is spiny; no appendage. 

 One dorsal fin more or less divided in two parts, the antex'ior 

 one with entirely spiny rays. Vent medial or rather anterior. 



A singular new genus, of which I have already detected five 

 species, so different from each other that they might form as 

 many subgenera. Yet they agree in the above characters, 

 and Glifrer from the genus Sciena by y^ie ^hape of the body a^d 



