85. PEECID^ PEECINA. 
490 
thick. Eye large, 3 J in head. Mouth large and broad, the lower jaw wide, 
a little shorter than the upper; maxillary reaching to the eye. Cheeks, 
opercles, and neck scaly; chest naked; belly naked anteriorly, scaly for 
a distance in front of the vent; scales rather large. Dorsal fins large, 
the first larger than the second, which is smaller than the anal, though 
longer; the two dorsal fins well separated; anal fin large, very deep, in 
some specimens (males?) reaching to the caudal; anal spines strong, the 
first the larger. Color dark, densely but vaguely blotched with darker ; 
sides with 8-10 obscure blotches, the anterior ones bar-like; a large black 
spot on base of spinous dorsal behind, and a small one in front; second 
dorsal, caudal, and pectorals barred ; a very strong black suborbital bar, 
and a faint dark line along muzzle. Head 3f ; depth 5. D. X-15 ; A. II, 
11; scales 6-56-11. L. 3 inches. Wabash, Illinois, and Arkansas Eivers. 
{ riadroplerus slmmardi Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 100; Jordan, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1877, 49; Jordan, Man. Vert. 222.) 
260.— PEKCIIVA Haldeman. 
Log Perches. 
{Pileoma DcKay.) 
(Haldeman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 330, 1842: type Perea nebiilosa Hald. = 
Scicena caprodes Raf.) 
Body elongate, slightly compressed, covered with small ctenoid 
scales. Lateral line continuous; ventral line with enlarged plates, 
which fall off, leaving a naked strip. Head depressed, rather pointed, 
the mouth being small and inferior, overlapped by a tapering, sub- 
truncate, pig-like snout; upper jaw not protractile. Teeth on vomer 
and jialatines. Gill-membranes scarcely connected. Dorsal fins well 
separated, the first the larger, of 13-15 spines; the second dorsal rather 
longer than the anal, which has two spines, the first of which is usually 
the shorter. Air-bladder and pseudobranchim present, rudimentary. 
Vertebrae (P. caprodes) 19 + 22. General pattern of coloration olivace- 
ous, with dark vertical bands alternately long and short. (A diminu- 
tive of Perea.) 
780. P. caprodes (Eaf.) Grd. — Log Perch; Poch-fisli; Hog-molhj; Hog-fish. 
Body elongate, compressed. Head long and i^ointed, depressed and 
sloping above. Mouth small, quite inferior, the maxillary not reach- 
ing nearly to the front of the eye. Cheeks, opercles, and neck scaly ; 
chest naked. Fins rather low. Color yellowish green, with about 15 
transverse dark bands from the back to the belly, these usually alter- 
nating with shorter and fainter ones, which reach about to the lateral 
