1078 BulUti7i 4y, United States National Museum. 



1465. ETHEOSTOMA CINEEEUM, Storer. 



Head 3i; depth 5i ; eye 4 in head; snout 3^. D. XI or Xll-U to 13; 

 A, II, 8; scales 8-57 to 60-9. Body slender, somewhat compressed; head 

 pointed; profile from tip of snout to top of head regularly convex; 

 mouth moderate, horizontal, low; upper lip on level with lower rim of 

 orhit ; maxillary reaching front of orbit; premaxillaries not protractile; 

 gill membranes but slightly connected. Opercles scaled ; cheeks, nape, 

 and breast naked or with few embedded scales; scales small, firm, finely 

 ctenoid, those on ventral line not enlarged; lateral line complete. Fins 

 moderate; height of spinous dorsal about half length of head; soft dor- 

 sal somewhat higher, a little higher than anal ; pectorals about li in 

 bead, reaching tips of ventrals. Color: Upper portion of body light yel- 

 low ; back with 4 dark cross bars, the first and largest between the two 

 dorsals, the next two in the base of the second dorsal, and the last upon 

 the caudal peduncle; each scale above lateral line with a brown spot, 

 these spots forming 2 or 3 lines running back to region of second dorsal; 

 along the lateral line is a series of 11 or 12 oblong dark spots, continued 

 forward across opercles and through the eye, meeting around the snout ; 

 top of head dark; entire under parts of body yellowish; dorsal fins 

 speckled o^r mottled with brownish ; spinous dorsal margined with red ; 

 second dorsal and anal variegated with red spots. Length 3i to 4 inches. 

 Tennessee and Cumberland rivers ; rare, and only lately rediscovered by 

 Doctor Philip II. Kirsch nearly fifty years after its original discovery; 

 recorded from Tennessee River at Florence, Alabama, Obeys River at 

 Olympus, Tennessee, and Rock Creek, near Whitley Station, Kentucky. 

 A large and showy species, (cinereus, ashy gray.) 

 EtJieo.thmia cinerea, Stoukr, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1845, 49, Florence, Alabama. (Coll. 



C. A. Hentz.) 

 Etheosloma cineretim, Kirsch, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XI, 1891 (1893), 264, aud 268; Vaillant, 



Recherches, G8, 1873; Boulengeu, Cat., i, 62. 

 Nothonotus cinereus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 509, 1883. 



1466. ETHEOSTOMA TESSELLATUM,* Storer. 



D. XII-13; P. 13; V. I, 5; A. II, 10. Body oblong. Head gibbous, 

 less than i the length of the body. Lateral line straight. Top of the 

 head and upper portion of the sides of a greenish-brown color ; 8 or 10 

 transverse bluish bands on the sides ; the intervals between these bands 

 are yellowish, and in the center of each is a bluish rhomb ; a black blotch 

 at the base of the tail ; the lips, opercles, and rays of the first dorsal 

 gamboge-yellow. Length 3 inches. Florence, Alabama. Caught in run- 

 ning water. (Storer.) Not seen by any later collector, but apparently a 

 valid species, (tessellatus, having spots, like mosaic.) 



Elhenstoma tessellata, Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1845, 48, Tennessee River at Flor- 

 ence, Alabama. (Coll. C. A. Hentz.) 

 Elheoskmia lessellalum, Vaillant, Recherches, 68, 1873. 

 Nothonotus tessellatm, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 509, 1883. 



* The name teBiellatas is preoccupied in this genus, only if Boleosoma be merged into it. 



