2852 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. 



of his valuable contributions to our knowlcflge of the food and game 

 fishes of that State.) 



Cottogaster chencyi, Evermann & Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1897 (Feb. 9, 1898), 129, 

 pi. 8, fig. 8, Racket River near Nor.'olk, New York. (Type, No. 48781. Coll. Ever- 

 mann &. Bean.) 



Page 1049. After Vlocentra gilberti add : 



143S(a). ULOCENTRA MEADI.E, Jordan & Evermann, new species. 



Head 3;^; depth 4f; eye Skinhead; snout 3|; interorbital 5. D. XII-12; 

 A. II, 7; scales 7-48-6. I5ody rather heavy, somewhat fusiform; head 

 larn'c ; snout blunt, decurved, profile rising abruptly to interorbital, thence 

 nearly hoiuzontal to origin of dorsal, from which it descends gently in a 

 straight line to caudal peduncle; opercular spine small but sharp; mouth 

 low, horizontal, rather large, the maxillary reaching vertical at front of 

 orbit; premaxillaries protractile; branchiostegal membranes not con- 

 nected, free from the isthmus; ventral fins close together, the si)acc sepa- 

 rating their bases about I diameter of orbit; fins all moderate; distance 

 from ti]) of snout to origin of spinous dorsal 3 in body; spinous and soft 

 dorsals close together, the space separating them about 2 in orbit; longest 

 soft dorsal rays 1* in head, about e(iualing those of anal; the two anal 

 spines of about equal length, the first the stouter; pectorals long, longer 

 than head, their tips passing those of ventrals but not reaching vent; 

 ventrals short, l/j in head; caudal slightly lunate when expanded. 

 Scales rather' large, strongly ctenoid; cheeks and breast naked; operele 

 scaled above, naked below; nape scaled; lateral line complete, straight; 

 ventral line of body covered with ordinary adherent scales. Color in alco- 

 hol, yellowish or olivaceous above and on sides, the back with 6 dai'k 

 saddle-like blotches, the first just anterior lo origin of spinous dorsal, 

 the second under the fifth and sixth spines, the third under the last two 

 spines, the fourth under the sixth and seventh soft rays, the fifth Just pos- 

 terior to the last dorsal raj^, and the sixth, which is quite small, upon the 

 caudal peduncle at the base of the caudal fin; sides blotched with dark, 6 

 to 8 larger dark blotches along side just below lateral line, sometimes 

 more or less ('(mtinnous with the dark dorsal blotches; a dark blotch at 

 base of middle caudal rays; belly pale; top of head daxk; a dark spot at 

 lower posterior angle of eye and a smaller one back of it on upper edge of 

 operele; a dark band downward from eye; operele dark; upper lip dark, 

 interrupted by a light line at the symphysis; spinous dorsal pale, with 

 a broad dark band through its lower third; soft dorsal crossed by 3 or 

 4 irregular lines of dark specks; caudal with about 4 broad dark cross 

 bars; other fins pale. Length 2 inches. This species somewhat resem- 

 bles U. (jUhcrii, but difl^"ers from it in the larger head, stouter body, larger 

 scales, naked cheeks, larger mouth, and in other respects. Known only 

 from Indian Creek, basin of Powell Kiver, east Tennessee, where 3 exam- 

 ines were collected October 17, 1893. (Named for Mrs. Meadie Hawkins 

 Evermann.) 



Ulocentra meadice, Jordan & Evermann, new specioa, Indian Creek, Cumberland Gap, 

 Tennessee. (Type, No. 48903. 'Joll. Dr. R. K. Gurley.) 



