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enlarged and spinous, falling off at times, leaving a naked strip; lateral 
line continuous. Dorsal fins large, the second usually smaller than the 
first and smaller than the anal. Anal spines two, strong, the first the 
longer. Size moderate. 
(Korro?, sculpin; ya^riip, belly.) 
T’S'?'. C. copeSaaidi Jordcan. 
Body rather slender and elongate. Head rather large and long, 
somewhat narrowed, resembling that of Boleosoma. Mouth small, hori- 
zontal, subiuferior. Eye large, 3^ in head. Cheeks naked; opercles 
and neck each with a few scales; throat naked. Ventral xtlates well 
developed; scales moderate, strongly ctenoid. Color brownish olive; 
a series of rather small, horizontally-oblong, black blotches along the 
lateral line, forming an interrupted lateral band; back tessellated; 
blackish streaks forward and downward from eye; ventral fins dusky 
in the male; vertical fins with dusky specks; a black spot on anterior 
rays of siiinous dorsal. Head 4J; depth 5 J. D. X[-10; A. II, 9; Lat. 
1. 5G. L. 2^ inches. White River, Indiana ; abundant near Indianapolis. 
(Rkeocri/pta copclandi Jortlau, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. X, 9, 1877: Bheocrypta' copelandi 
Jordau, Man. Vert. 222.) 
7'3'§, C. putiiami J. G, (uom. sp. nov.). 
General form of the preceding. Mouth large, the maxillary reaching 
to the pupil. Snout convex. Cheeks naked; opercles closely scaled; 
chest naked; neck above scaly; scales large. Tessellated above; sides 
with ten square blotches, which are small and slightly connected by a 
dusky band; spinous dorsal with a brown median band; second dorsal 
and caudal barred; entral in the males dusky; a dusky stripe down 
ward and one forward from eye. Head 4 ; depth 6. D. XI-11; A. II, 8 ; 
Lat. 1. 44. L. 3 inches. Lake Chamidain. (Described from Xo. 1314, 
U. S. Xat. Mus.) 
{Boleosoma tessellatum Tbompson, Appeuilix Hist. Vermont, 1853, 31 ; not of Dekay : 
Cottogaster tessellatus Putnam, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 1863, 5.) 
259.— IinOSTOlTIA Jordan. 
(Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1877, 49: type Hadropterus shvmardi Grd.) 
Body robust. Head large. Mouth comjtaratively large, horizontal, 
the lower jaw included; premaxillaries x) retractile ; maxillary not adnate 
to x)reorbital. Belly without caducous xilates. Fins as in Alvordiiis, the 
anal larger than the second dorsal. (£:,ut, to move; (rropa^ mouth.) 
779. I. sSiumardi (Grd.) Jordan. 
Body stout, heavy forward, comxiressed behind. Head broad and 
