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tip. It is also smaller, from 3 to 8 inches long. It bears the 

 same vulgar names, and is found along with it, of which some 

 fishermen deem that it is the young. But I have seen so many- 

 false assertions of the kind elsewhere that I am inclined to doubt 

 this fact, as it would be very strange that the gradual changes 

 should be so great. Yet this ought to be inquired into, since 

 many vulgar opinions are often found to be correct." — (Rafix- 

 ESQUE, Ich. Old. 32, 1820.) 



Etheostoma calliura Rafiiiesque, 1820. — "Body slightly 

 fusiform and compressed, silvery, olivaceous above, some flexuose 

 transver.sal brownish lines on the sides; lower jaw longer, preop- 

 ercule double, opercule with an angular appendage and an 

 obtuse spine behind it; scales smooth, lateral line flexuose; tail 

 forked, tricolored, and with a brown spot at the base. 



" The largest species of the genus from 3 to 9 inches long. 

 It has some similarity wath the Lepomis Jlexuolaris, and some 

 other river Bass, wherefore it is called Minny Bass, Little Bass, 

 Hog Bass, etc. Common in the Ohio, Salt River, etc. It has 

 sharp teeth. The head is large, rugose above ; iris large, gilt 

 brown ; branchial rays uncovered. Diameter one-seventh of 

 the length. Lateral line curved upwards at its base. Fins 

 olivaceous. Dorsal with 9 and 14 rays, beginning behind the 

 pectorals and ending far from the tail, like the anal, which has 

 12 rays, whereof one is spiny. Pectoral fins short, trapezoidal, 

 K) rays. Tail 24, fine, base with a yellow curved ring, followed 

 by a forked band of a pale violaceous color, tip hyalin. Mouth 

 straight."— (Rafinesque, M. Ohi. 36, 1820.) 



CiCHLA FASCiATA Le Sueur, 1822. — "Fourteen or fifteen 

 transverse brown bands on each side of the body, and two or 

 three oblique ones on the opercula, scaly margined with black ; 

 spinous and soft parts of the dorsal fin equal in length, the fin 

 less arquated upward than the posterior one. 



" Body elongated, compressed, tapering at the two extremi- 

 ties, three and one-half times the length of head, by one length 



