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saddle-like blotch on back between dorsal fins ; a dark bar before, be- 

 liind, and below eye, radiating liom eye, the suborbital bar most dis- 

 tinct; head with dark dots; spinous dorsal with a subniedian, broad, 

 dark baud (otherwise pale) ; soft dorsal and caudal sharply barred with 

 darker ; about 5 dark bars across caudal ; pectoral more faintly barred ; 

 lower tins pale, plain. 



Another specimen, probably a female, is i)aler and grayer, with the 

 cross-bars narrower and less regular ; the markings on the fins are much 

 paler, the first dorsal being without dark longitudinal band. 



This species is based on five specimens, in good condition, collected 

 at Montreal, Canada, by jNIr, T. J. Doran. It may be known at once 

 from all related si)ecies by the small numbers of rays in the fins. In 

 life it was probably one of the most handsomely colored species of this 

 beautiful genus. 



2. Poecilichtliys quiescens, sp, uov. 



Head, 3 1 (^f ) ; depth, OJ {7-}). D. XII, 11 ; A II, 7, Scales, 2-50-10; 

 pores developed on L'4 of them. Length (28501), Nashville, Georgia), 2 

 inches. 



Subgenus Boleichthi/s, Girard. 



Body extremely elongate, little compressed, the caudal peduncle long 

 and rather deep, the back not elevated. Head moderately acute, the 

 snout a little decurved, its length less than that of the eye, which is 3.4 

 in head. Mouth small, oblique, the maxillary reaching front of eye, its 

 length 4 in head, lower jaw included. Teeth rather long. Preopercle 

 entire. Opercular spine strong. Gill-membranes somewhat connected, 

 meeting at an acute angle. No black humeral scale. 



Cheeks and opercles scaly ; nape and breast closely scaled. Scales 

 rather small. Lateral line running very high, concurrent with the back, 

 its tubes developed about to the front of soft dorsal. 



Dorsal fins somewhat connected by membrane, 



Si)inous dorsal longer and higher than usual in this genus, the longest 

 spines about half length of head. Soft dorsal a little higher and shorter 

 than spinous dorsal. Caudal long, somewhat pointed, its middle rays 

 1^ in head. Anal much smaller than soft dorsal, its spines rather long 

 and slender. Pectorals shortish, li in head, not reaching to vent or to 

 tips of ventrals. 



Color in alcohol dark brown, with darker markings, as in P. eos and 

 related species ; a vertical row of small (hirk spots along base of 

 caudal; dorsals and caudals cross-barred, lorining fine checkers; a dusky 

 blotch on front of dorsal ; four dark streaks radiating from eye; cheeks 

 and opercles with some dark points. 



The type is a single, well-preserved specimen, 2 inches in length, 

 collected in a tributary of the Altamaha River, a branch of the Suwan- 

 nee, at Nashville, Ga., by Mr. W.J. Taylor. 



The relations of this species are apparently with P. cos, from which it 

 differs in the number of dorsal spines and in the greater union of the 



