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mens were taken at Alleghany Springs, Salem, and Roanoke. It was 

 also found abundant in the Neuse River, at Millburnie, near Raleigh, and 

 two specimens were obtained from the Tar River, at Rocky Mount, 



N C. 



The North Carolina specimens have mostly larger scales (lateral line 

 45, 45, 41, 45, 48, 44, 42, 47, in eight specimens; 50, 43, 47, 50, in four 

 Roanoke specimens), but are otherwise similar. 



E. roanoka differs from K evides chiefly in the larger scales. (Scales 

 usually 60 to 65 in E. evides.)* 

 11. Etheostoma podostemone Jordan & Jenkins, sp. nov. (Type No. 39863, U. S. 



Nat. Mus.) ,...,, i i 



Subgenus Boleosoma, allied toE. longimane, differing chiefly in the larger scales 



and smaller mouth. 



Head, 4f in length; depth, 5§. D. x-13. A. I, 8. Scales, 4-35-6. 



Leugth, 2 inches. 



Body rather stout, somewhat compressed, the back elevated. Head 

 short rather bluntly rounded in profile, the rather wide, blunt snout 

 overhanging the small, inferior mouth. Upper jaw protractile ; maxil- 

 lary short, freely movable, just reaching front of eye, and scarcely as ■ 

 long as eye; eve 3| in head, a little longer than snout; mouth very 

 small iuferior,'contracted; teeth small; gill membranes broadly united. 

 Cheeks, nape, and breast naked; opercles with a few large scales ; pre- 

 opercle entire; middle line of belly naked anteriorly, with ordinary 

 scales behind. Lateral line complete. Dorsal fins moderate ; anal fin 

 lower and smaller than soft dorsal; anal spine short; first anal ray 

 simple a little longer than the spine and articulate toward tip; caudal 

 truncate; pectorals rather long, one-fourth longer than head, reaching 



beyond ventrals to vent. 



Color light yellowish green, with seven or eight small dark quadrate 

 spots along side; five or six larger ones along back; scales of back 

 mostly with dark centers ; a dark bar below eye ; a little spot behind eye ; 

 a dark opercular bar and a dark bar before and behind pectorals ; lower 

 side of head with some dark spots ; pectorals, both dorsals and caudal, 

 with cross-bauds of dark olive spots; dorsal in life also spotted with 

 brownish-red; caudal also with a subterminal dark band; ventrals and 



anal nearly plain. 



Many specimens of this species were obtained from the Roanoke River 

 at Roanoke, Salem, and Alleghany Springs. They abound in swift 

 water, especially among rocks covered with river-weed (Podostemon 

 ceratophyllus). They are especially plentiful in the clear waters oi 

 Bottom Creek, about 5 miles above Alleghany Springs, Va. This swift 

 mountain stream is one of the chief sources of the Roanoke. 



This species is nearly allied to E. longimane, and like that species is 

 intermediate between the gr oups known as Boleo soma^Uloce ntra. 



* Scales 52, 54, 55, 55, 60, 62, 65, 60, 62, 53, 62, 63, 52, 58, in fourteen specimens of E 

 evides from tributaries of the French Broad. In Indiana specimens the number rarely 

 goes below CO. 



