85. PEKCID^ — PERCINA. 499 



thick. Eye large, 3 J in head. Mouth large and broad, thelower jaw wide, 



a little shorter than the upperj 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 lins largo, 



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. Head3f; depth 5. D.X-15; A. II, 



11 ; scales C-56-11. L. 3 inches, Wabash, Illinois, and Arkansas Rivers. 



(Iladropierus shumardi Girard, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 100; Jordan, Proc. 

 Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila. 1877, 49; Jordan, Man. Vert. 222.) 



260.— PERCINA Haldeman. 



Log Perches. 



{Pileoma DeKay.) 



(Haldeman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. viii, 330, 1842: type Perea nehuJosa Hald. = 

 Scicena caprodcs Eaf. ) 



Body elongate, slightly compressed, covered with small ctenoid 

 scales. Lateral line continuous; ventral line with enlarged plates, 

 ^hich fall off, leaving a naked strip. Head depressed, rather pointed, 

 tlie mouth being small and inferior, overlapped by a tapering, sub-, 

 truncate, x^ig-like snout ; ujiper jaw not x>rotractile. Teeth on vomer 

 and palatines. 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 pseudobranchite 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 Ferca.) 



7§0. P, caprodes (Raf.) Grd. — Log Perch; Eoclc-fish; Hog-molly; Hog-fisli. 



Body elongate, compressed. Head long and pointed, 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 



