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wavy bars formed of black punctulatious ; auals and veutrals dusted 

 with coarse black specks. 



This species is abundaut in small streams in the Ozark region of 

 Southwestern Missouri. It was taken by Mr. S. E. Meek and the writer 

 in the Sac Eiver near Greenfield, and in the Mangua River, the James, 

 and the Osage Fork of the Gasconade Rivers, near Marshfield, Mo. 



15. Etlieostoma TEtheostoma) whipplei Girard. 36353, 36442, 36377, 1331, 36419, 

 36818, 36735. 



Closely related to Etheostoma punctulatum from which it differs con- 

 spicuously in its deeper, more compressed body, thicker caudal peduncle, 

 coarser scales, smaller eye, the union of the branchiostegal membranes 

 across the isthmus, and the different coloration. 



Body rather deep, compressed; least depth of caudal peduncle equal- 

 ing length of snout and eye. Mouth terminal, oblique, maxillary 

 reaching vertical from front of pupil, 3^ in head. Premaxillaries not 

 protractile. Eye moderate, slightly greater than snout, 4^ in head. 

 Preopercle entire ; opercular spine strong. Branchiostegal membranes 

 rather widely joined across isthmus. 



Fins larger than in punctulatum; dorsals slightly joined at base, the 

 longest soft ray half length of head; pectorals somewhat longer than 

 veutrals, which equal distance from snout to preopercular margin; first 

 anal spine longer and much stronger than second; caudal truncate. 



Scales small; lateral line straight, ending under last rays of soft dor- 

 sal, the pores wanting on 16 to 20 scales. Opercles with a few large 

 ctenoid scales. Breast and ventral region, cheeks, nape, and a strip 

 along base of spinous dorsal anteriorly, naked or with embedded, cycloid 

 scales. 



Head 3^ in length: depth ^ to 5. D. IX to XII-12 to 14; A. II, 7. 

 Lateral line 60 to 70, 8 or 9 series between it and base of spinous dorsal. 



Colors in life: Grayish, mottled with darker, and with about 12 in- 

 distinct dusky bars, becoming more clearly marked posteriorly ; scales 

 of lighter interspaces on sides, with small, round, bright, orange-red 

 spots, those near lateral line in longitudinal series of two to five. Two 

 orange blotches at base of caudal. A dark spot below eye, and two 

 behind it — one of these on upper part of cheeks, the other, fainter, on 

 occiput. A conspicuous black humeral spot. 



Spinous dorsal dusky-translucent at base, a dark bar about half way 

 up, then a translucent bar, an orange-red bar, and a translucent bar 

 tipped with dusky; soft dorsal similarly marked, with more yellowish. 

 Anal like soft dorsal, the orange brighter, sometimes covering distal 

 half of fin, the basal dusky area fainter. Caudal barred with light and 

 dark, and margined with black; sometimes with a submarginal band 

 of orange. 



Occurring abundantly in the Poteau River near Hackett's City, the 

 Saline River at Benton, and the Washita River at Arkadelphia, Ark- 



