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It. Tail 20 rays, with many small transversal lines. VentmC* 

 (5ial. Anal fin 2 and 8. Pectoral fins 16,oblon,^ acute. 



25th Species. Common Hogfish. Etheostonia cajirodes^ 

 EtKeostome capros. 



Body quite cylindrical, whitish, with about twenty transverse 

 bands, alternately shorter. Head elongate obtuse, upper jaw 

 longer, rounded; opercule angular, spine acute: lateral lino 

 quite straight: diameter one eighth of the length: tail forked^ 

 olivaceous, brown at the base, and with a black dot. Vent an- 

 terior. 



The most common species, found in the Ohio, Cumberland, 



Wabash, Tennessee, Green Rive ', Kentucky, Licking, Miami, 

 Sec; called almost every where Hog-fish. Length from two 

 to six inches. Scales rough upwards, hardly ciliate. Mouth 

 beneath, small; upper jaw protruding like a hog's snout, tho 

 nostrils being on it. Eyes above the eyes, jutting, black, iris 

 silvery. Sides of the head silvery, above fulvous; preopercule 

 simple arched. Branchial rays half visible. Fins hyalinouss 

 dorsal 15 and 12, ending before the anal, which is very distant 

 from the tail, rays 2 and 10. Pectoral fins trapezoidal 16. 

 Tail 24. 



SFXOND PART. ABDOMINAL FLbHES, 

 Having complete gills, with a gill cover and a branchial 

 membrane. Lower or ventral fins situated on the belly or abdo- 

 men, behind the pectoral or lateral fins, 



X. Genus. Goldshad. Pomoloeus. Pomolobe. 

 Body nearly cylindrical, elongate, scaly. Vent posterior* 

 Abdomen carlnated and serrated from the head to the vent; but 

 without plaits or broad scales. Head scale': ess, opercule lobed, 

 ^vith a rounded shield above. Jaws without teeth, upper trun- 

 cate extensible, lower horizontal and fixed. Abdominal fins 

 with nine rays and without lateral appendage: dorsal fin oppo- 

 site. 



Out of eight species of fishes, similar to the Herrings and 

 Shads, which have already been observed in the Ohio; after an 

 attentive study, I have ascertained that not a single one is a real 

 Herring, nor belongs to the genus Ciufica^ and I have been 

 compelled to form four new genera with them; which afford 

 striking chaiitcters, Tho present one differs from the 



