360 NEW SPECIES OF FRESH-WATER FISHES. 



12. Etheostoma verecundum Jordan A: Evermaun, sp. uov. (Type No. 39862, 



U. S. Nat. Mus.) 

 Subgenus Vlocentra Jordan, apparently allied to E. stignueum ami to E. histrio. 



Head, 4J in length ; depth, 4J. D. xi, 11. A. n, 7. Scales, 6-47-9. 

 Length, 2* inches. 



Form of head and body much as in E. zonale, the body subfusiform, 

 little compressed, the back somewhat elevated. Head small; snout 

 short, very convex in profile ; eye large, longer than snout, 3£ in head. 

 Mouth small, inferior, horizontal ; premaxillaries protractile, but with 

 traces of an obsolete mesial freuum ; maxillary extending to j list be- 

 yond front of eye, 3g in head. Gill membranes broadly united; pre- 

 opercle entire ; cheeks, opercles, and nape scaly ; breast naked ; lateral 

 line complete. Fins all very low; dorsal fins scarcely joined ; caudal 

 slightly lunate ; pectorals as long as head, reaching tips of veutrals, 

 not to vent. 



Color in spirits greenish-yellow, much mottled with darker green ; six 

 or seven distinct quadrate green spots along lateral line ; traces of three 

 dark spots in a vertical row at base of caudal; a dark bar below and before 

 eye ; top of head dark. Ventrals and anal plain, other fins barred with 

 dark olive ; spinous dorsal with orange in front and orange spots on its 

 last rays ; tip of last spines dark. 



A single specimen of this species was taken in the Middle Fork of 

 the Holston River, about 5 miles south of Glade Spring, Va. 



13. Etheostoma swannanoa Jordan & Evermaun, sp. uov. (Type No. 39861, U. 8. 



Nat. Mus.) 

 Subgeuus Xanostoma Pntuam. Allied to E. blennius Gilbert &. Swain. 



Head, 4£ in leugth ; depth, 6. D. xi or XII, 12 to 14. A. n, 9. Scales, 

 6-4S to 37-* 7 or S. Length, 2^ to 3 inches. 



Form of Etheostoma simotentm. Body robust, somewhat compressed, 

 the back elevated; head very short, deep, the anterior profile strongly 

 convex; snout short and blunt; eye large, placed high, 4 in head; 

 mouth very small, horizontal, inferior, the lower jaw included all around. 

 Premaxillaries not protractile; maxillary short, not adnate, reaching 

 to opposite front of eye, 4 in head; teeth small. Cheeks, opercles, and 

 breast naked ; nape naked in one specimen ; scaly in the others. Lat- 

 eral line complete; belly evenly scaled. Gill membranes broadly con- 

 nected. Fins rather low; dorsals contiguous; pectorals long, one- 

 third longer than head, reaching beyond ventrals to vent. 



Males, in spirits, dusky green, the belly paler ; back irregularly mot- 

 tled and blotched with black and strewn with specks of saffron yellow ; 

 six distinct black cross-blotches on dorsal line ; eight to ten roundish or 

 quadrate black blotches on sides, a smaller spot behind the last of these 

 at base of caudal, these lateral blotches somewhat counected. Head 

 dusky above; a faint bar below eye; axil black; fins nearly plain. 



* Scales 50, 18, 53, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, in eight specimens, the last three being from H«»l- 

 stou River. 



