512 CONTEIBUTIOXS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
802. 'X. iEascD’ipSsam Jordan & Brayton. 
Body rather stout and deep, strongly compressed. Caudal peduncle 
rather deep. Head large, rather obtuse, the profile quite gibbous, a 
considerable angle formed opposite the eyes, which are high up and close 
together. Eye about equal to snout, 3.J in head. Mouth moderate, 
slightly oblique, the maxillary reaching eye, the upper jaw the longer. 
Head entirely scaleless; neck above scaly ; breast naked; belly closely 
scaled; scales large. Fins large; spinous dorsal longer than soft dorsal, 
which is somewhat larger than the anal; the two dorsals connected by 
membrane; dorsal spines a little more than half the length of the head; 
pectorals large. Color olive, with a bright scarlet spot on each scale, 
these forming continuous lines along the rows of scales; 3 dark blotches 
across the back ; one in front of dorsal, forming a black spot on the ante- 
rior spices; one between the two dorsal fins, forming a similar black spot 
on the last rays of the spinous dorsal ; and one on the caudal peduncle, 
behind the second dorsal; sides with about G irregular dark-olive blotches 
just below the lateral line; edge of spinous dorsal black, below this bright 
orange-red, a dusky bar at the base; entire anal fin, cheeks, opercles, and 
a bar below the eye bright blue; females without red spots, the sides 
blotched. Head 4|; depth 4f. H. XI-12; A. II, 8; scales 5-4G-5. L. 
2^ inches. Oconee Eiver, Georgia; one of the most beautiful of the 
group. 
{Nothonoius inscri])ius Jordan & Brayton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii, 34, 1878.) 
265. — E'TM1E©8'F®]TIA Rafinesqne. 
(Calonotus Agassiz.) 
(Rafinesqne, Journ. de Physique, 1819, 419: type Etheostoma flabellaris Raf.) 
Body elongate, compressed. Mouth terminal, more or less oblique; 
upper jaw not protractile. Vomerine teeth present; teeth in the jaws 
strong, the outer series canine-like. Opercular spine well developed. 
Gill-membranes broadly united. Scales rather large. Lateral line 
incomplete; an eidarged, black humeral scale. First dorsal fin low, 
considerably lower than the second dorsal, of 7 to 9 subequal spines, 
which, in the males, end in little fleshy knobs; anal fin smaller than 
the second dorsal, with 2 spines, the first of which is always the larger. 
Vertebrm [E. Uneolatnm) 14-1-21; size small. Coloration dark. The 
species are extremely quick in their movements, and their coloration, 
although not gaudy, is very elegant. 
(The Tvord Etheostoma is stated hy Rafiiiesque to mean “various viouths,” the species 
known to him — i. e., Percina cajirodes, Diplesium hlcnnioides, and Etheostoma Jlabellarc — 
