1094 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



deep, compressed, with the dorsal region elevated, the form being much 

 as in Cottoijastcr timiiidca. Mouth large, terminal, the lower jaw but 

 little the shorter; snout pointed, upper lip thick; preniaxiilary not pro- 

 tractile, the frenum narrow, torn in the type. Tip of maxillary reaching 

 to front of pupil. Pectoral fins large, their length equal to the length of 

 the head ; ventrals email, not close together ; anal small, with 2 short, 

 sharp spines.* Color in life, dus'ky olivaceous, greenish below; caudal 

 fin, soft dorsal, anal, and ventral fins yellowish; pectoral tins dusky, 

 with outer border pale yellowish; spinous dorsal dusky, upper half with 

 a yellowish tinge; a faint dark band on chin; a dark bar below eye; a 

 black band across back in front of spinous dorsal, terminating at base of 

 pectoral fius ; a second and much fainter baud on back between spinous 

 and soft dorsal ; a third faint band on bade at middle of soft dorsal, 

 and a fourth on caudal j)eduncle ; sides dotted with faint yellowish, 

 forming Irregular stripes along rows of scales. On the posterior half of 

 body are 6 faint, dark, vertical bars. One of the handsomest of the 

 darters in life. Length 2^ inches. Basin of White Eiver, Missouri. 

 Only the types known. (Named for Mrs. Julia Hughes Gilbert.) 



Etheostoma juUir, Meek, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., IX, 1889 (1891), 130, plate 42, fig. 2, James 

 River, near Springfield, Missouri, (Coll. Meek, Drew & Bcttger); Boulenger, Cat., i, 87. 



1486. ETHEOSTOMA ARTESI.E (Hay). 



Head 3f ; depth 5. D. XI-12 or 13 ; A. II, 7 or 8 ; scales 8-46 to 56-11. 

 Body elongate, compressed. Head large. Mouth large, terminal, nearly 

 horizontal, the lower jaw slightly included; maxillary reaching to oppo- 

 site front of pupil. Palatine teeth in a broad band. Eye equal to snout, 

 4^ in head. Cheeks entirely covered with small scales; opercles with 

 large scales; scale.s along back very small. Lateral line extending to end 

 of second dorsal, on about 45 scales. Dorsals contiguous ; first dorsal as 

 long as head, its height less than half its length ; soft dorsal considerably 

 higher ; anal a little over half length of head ; pectorals reaching tips of 

 ventrals, much smaller than in E. caruleum. Gill membranes largely con- 

 nected. Yellowish olive, with transverse oblique bars of darker, and 

 sprinkled with small blotches of carmine ; pectorals and ventrals dull 

 blue ; dorsals with a broad band of carmine along their middle, bordered 

 on each side by orange ; tips of dorsals dull blue, as is the base of the soft 

 dorsal ; base of spinous dorsal Avith several carmine spots ; anal mostly 

 crimson, tijiped with blue ; caudal blue, then orange, carmine orange, and 

 tipped with blue; a black humeral scale. Length 2i inches. Georgia! 

 to Central Texas (Palestine), in sandy streams of the pine woods; rare; 

 perhaps intergrading through Etheostoma alahamw with E. wMppUi. 



PoeciUcUhijs arlesix. Hay, Proc. IT. S.Nat. Mus., 1880, 494, small branch of the Catawba River, 

 Artesia, Lowndes County, Mississippi. (Type, No. 27434. Coll. Hay). 



* This species is described and figured as having but 1 anal spine. In one of Dr. Meek's 

 types in the Museum of Stanford University, two spines are well developed, as in its ally, Etheos- 

 toma whipptii. 



t A specimen from Georgia (24524, M. C. Z.) has scales, 40. Another specimen is from an arte- 

 sian well iu Alabama. 



