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highest soft ray 1| in head. Anal spines of about equal length, both 

 slender and rather high, ^ length of head. Pectorals as long as head; 

 ventrals 1| in head. 



Cheeks, opercles, and nape closely scaled, the breast naked or par- 

 tially scaled. No black humeral scale. Lateral line nearly straight, 

 continued to below middle of second dorsal, running on 30 to 35 scales. 



Head, 3f to 4 in length ; depth, 4J to 5. D. IX or X— 13; A. II, 7 or 

 8. Lat. 1. 49 to SS^s^. Length, 2 inches. 



Colors in life: Very light pale olive, with 7 dusky cross-bars on back 

 narrower than the interspaces, and reaching about half way to lateral 

 line, their ends connected by dusky lines. Below lateral line about 9 

 dusky-greenish blotches, between which are orange-yellow cross-bars, 

 most distinct posteriorly, not reaching median ventral line. Xo dis- 

 tinct streak forward from eye ; a dusky bar below eye ; snout dusky. 

 Small black spots at base of caudal. Soft dorsal and caudal barred 

 with dusky. Spinous dorsal with a black blotch on posterior rays, a 

 yellow or orange bar through middle of fin, the base and margin dusky. 

 Anal fin unmarked. 



Five specimens were obtained from a quiet gravelly spot in Stone 

 Eiver near Nashville, Tenn. 



13. Etheostoma (Btheostoma) parvipinne Gilbert & Swaiu, sp. nov, 36716. 



Body compressed, little tapering, the caudal peduncle deep, its depth 

 approximately equal throughout. Head small and broad, with very 

 short snout which is abruptly somewhat blunt, its tip about on a level 

 with axis of body, the dorsal outline descending to it equally as the 

 ventral outline rises. Mouth small, with broad, oblique cleft, tbe max- 

 illary reaching beyond vertical from front of orbit, 3| in head. Teeth 

 on vomer and palatines. Eye 4^ in head, equaling distance from tip of 

 snout to front of pupil. Interorbital width § diameter of orbit, with a 

 median furrow. Preopercular margin* entire. Gill membranes very 

 broadly joined across isthmus, the distance on median line from their 

 posterior border to articulation of mandible equaling diameter of orbit. 

 Cheeks, opercles, nape and breast closely scaled. 



Spinous dorsal low and of weak spines, the median portion highest, the 

 outline descending gradually either way ; the highest spine 2^ in head. 

 The two dorsals scarcely joined at base. Second dorsal small, its base 

 equaling length of head in front of preopercular margin, the lougest 

 ray half length of- head. Anal spines rather weak, the second longer 

 and somewhat stronger than the first. Caudal rounded. Pectorals and 

 ventrals both very short, their tips reaching about the same vertical, 

 the ventrals scarcely extending half way to vent. Pectorals equaling 

 head behind middle of eye. 



Scales weakly ctenoid, those on head, nape, and breast smooth. Oper- 

 cular scales about as large as those on body, those on cheeks, inter- 

 opercles, breast and nape much smaller; lateral line nearly straight, 

 with a slight arch anteriorly, wanting on three or four scales only. 



