85. PERCID^ — ULOCENTRA. 
495 
spines ; anal smaller than second dorsal, with two well-developed spines, 
the first the longer. Small species, rather brightly colored. {ouXo^, com- 
plete ; xe^rpov, spine ; the development of the anal spines distinguishing 
it from Boleosoma.) 
a. Lateral line incomplete. 
772. U. pEaBox (Cope) J. & G. 
Vermillion red, with faint small brown dorsal spots; a series of similar 
blue spots along the lateral line. Spiuons dorsal with a dark blue bor- 
der; second dorsal with a dark shade; candal cross-barred. Body rather 
stont. Head compressed. Month terminal, the prema.xillaries freely 
protractile ; opercular spine strong. Cheeks and opercles naked. Breast 
and neck scaleless or nearly so. Scales rather large, the belly scaled 
like the sides. Gill-membranes not described. Lateral line straight, 
reaching middle of second dorsal. Anal fin small, other fins large. D. 
X-12 ; A. II, 5 ; scales 5-53-8. L. 2 inches. Trinity liiver, Texas. ( Cope.) 
{Boleosorna phlox Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvii, 30, 1880.) 
773. V. slagmsea Jordan. — Specie. 
Body slender, formed as in Boleosoma. Head narrow and thin, the 
snout somewhat pointed, obliquely truncate in profile. Month narrow, 
horizontal, snbinferior, its cleft nearly reaching eye; premaxillaries little 
protractile. Lateral line extending to opposite middle of second dorsal. 
Scales rather large. Opercles, cheeks, and neck scaly; breast naked. 
Gill-membranes not very broadly joined; opercular spine sharp. Fins 
rather large; candal emarginate. Olivaceous, tessellated and speckled 
above; sides with about 8 W shaped dark green blotches below the lat- 
eral line and various duller ones above; upper parts in the larger speci- 
mens sprinkled with small orange spots, which are more conspicnous 
after death, when the green has faded. Fins mottled; spinous dorsal 
with a band of orange-red above, and one or two narrow dark ones below 
it. A dark stripe forward and another downward from eye. Head ; 
depth 5. D. X-12 ; A. II, 7 ; scales 5-46-7. L. 2^ inches. Georgia to 
Louisiana; rather common in the ponds and streams of the hill country. 
(Foleosoma stigmcEum Jordan, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1876, 311.) 
aa. Lateral line complete. 
774. U. ata*DpaBJSBi§ Jordan. 
Body rather short, somewhat compressed behind. Head extremely 
short and deep, the snout very short and abruptly rounded, as in Bi})- 
Icsiuin. Eye large. Mouth small, with equal jaws. Cheeks and oper- 
