1090 Bulletin 4~, United States National Museum. 



1479. ETHEOSTOMA TIPPECANOE, Jordan & Evcrmann. 



Head 4i ; depth 4f. D. XII-12 ; A. II, 7; scales 5-50-8, with pores on 

 about 23. Body rather robust, compressed, with deep caudal peduncle; 

 head moderate, with j)ointed snout ; eye small, as long as suout, 4i iu 

 head ; mouth large, oblique, the lower jaw somewhat included ; maxillary 

 reaching nearly to middle of eye ; opercle very short, little longer than 

 snout, its spine strong : cheeks naked, or with one or two scales above; 

 opercles well scaled : breast naked ; top of head naked ; nape with fine 

 scales; upper jaw not protractile; gill membranes nearly separate; 

 lateral line straight, ceasing under front of second dorsal. Dorsals mod- 

 erate, slightly connected : anal spines subequal : pectorals shortish, about 

 as long as head : caudal short, subtruncate. Color dark, the scales covered 

 with fine puuctulations ; body with 12 dark (probably blue in life) 

 cross bands, nearly vertical and narrower than the interspaces, the next 

 the last one brightest and broadest ; between this and the last, two bright 

 spots (probably red in life) with a dark one between them, at base of 

 caudal ; a black humeral scale : first dorsal dark ; second dorsal, anal, 

 caudal, and pectorals barred ; ventrals speckled ; three dark streaks 

 diverging from eye : interspaces on sides probably more or less red in 

 life. Length li inches. Tippecanoe RiA-er, Indiana: but few specimens 

 known ; possibly a variation of Ftheosfoma jcssia'. 



Elheostoma tippecanoe, Joedax & Eveejiaxx, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu?., ISW, 3, (with a figure of 

 Etheoslovia comnnim, by an error of printer), Tippecanoe River, Marshland, Indiana, 

 (Type, No. 40080. Coll. Evermann); Boulengeb, Cat., i, 79. 



1480. ETHEOSTOMA PUXCTCLATCM (Agassiz). 



Head 3*; depth 5|; eye large, 3i in head; snout 4^. D. X or XI-14 ; 

 A. II, 8 or 9 ; scales 9-63 to 80-16, 43 to 53 pores. Body slender, com- 

 pressed, the ventral outline nearly straight, the back scarcely elevated ; 

 upper profile descending in a gentle regular curve from front of dorsal to 

 snout, which is below axis of body. Snout sharp ; mouth terminal, 

 moderately oblique, large, the maxillary reaching vertical from middle 

 of pupil, 3 in head; premaxillaries not protractile. Teeth on vomer and 

 palatines, outer series in upper jaw enlarged. Preopercle entire ; oper- 

 cular spine very slender. Gill membranes not united across isthmus. Fins 

 rather small. Pectorals and ventrals about equal, the latter not nearly 

 reaching vent, as long as from snout to nape ; dorsals not joined at base, 

 the spines rather strong ; anal with two slender subei^ual spines, as long 

 as diameter of orbit, the first stronger than second; caudal truncate. 

 Body covered with small ctenoid scales, which become very fine on the 

 nape ; breast naked ; an enlarged black humeral scale ; cheeks and oper- 

 cles naked ; lateral line straight, ending below last rays of soft dorsal, 

 the tubes wanting on about 20 scales. Colors in life : Very dark slaty 

 green, with indistinct darker bars, irregular in number and size, down- 

 ward from back ; belly and branchiostegal membranes deep orange red ; 

 sides of head coarsely punctate with black ; top of head dusky, a dark 

 bar forward from eye, one upward and backward across upper portion 



