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than one fourth the length of the body. Lateral line straight. 

 Top of the head and upper portion of the sides, of a greenish- 

 brown color ; eight or ten transverse bluish bands upon the sides. 

 The intervals between these bands are yellowish, and in their 

 centres is a bluish rhomb. A black blotch at the base of the 

 tail. The lips, opercles and rays of the first dorsal, gamboge 

 yellow. Caught in running water. 



D. 12, 13; P. 13 ; V. 6 ; A. 12 ; C. 17. 



Length, 3 inches. Florence, Alabama. 



Etheosto.-\ia cinerea. Body, oblong, compressed. Head 

 gibbous directly over the eyes. The upper portion of the sides 

 of a light yellow color, crossed longitudinally by three or four 

 cinereous interrupted narrow bands, one or two of which com- 

 mence at the snout, the others arise back of the head, and are 

 lost anterior to the tail. Beneath these bands, is a series of lon- 

 gitudinally arranged oval blotches, of a similar color, and from 

 these blotches descend, obliquely, backwards and downwards to 

 the abdomen, narrow, cinereous lines. Lower portion of sides 

 yellowish white. First dorsal margined with red ; second dorsal 

 and anal variegated with red. Caught in deep, still water. 



D. 11, 13 ; P. 15 ; V. 6 ; A. 10 ; C. 17. 



Length, 3 to 4 inches. Florence, Alabama. 



A paper, by Dr. J. P. Kirtland, supplementary to his 

 former papers, was read, containing descriptions of the fishes 

 of Ohio, in which the following new species occurred. 



ExoGLossuM DUBiUM. Head somewhat elongated ; eyes small, 

 prominent ; upper-jaw projects two lines beyond the lower, which 

 is small, semicircular, and mosdy concealed by the projection of 

 the upper when the mouth is closed ; lips circular, the lower re- 

 flected after the manner of the Catostomi, only smaller and less 

 fleshy. Body gibbous on the back, before the dorsal fin cylin- 

 drical, slightly compressed on the sides. Abdomen full. Scales 

 small oval. Dorsal and anal fins, trapezoidal ; caudal fin bilobed, 

 the upper lobe acuminate, the lower obtuse. Pectoral fin fal- 

 cate, subovate. 



Color. Irides golden yellow, head and back olive, operculum 

 iridescent, sides dusky, abdomen white, fins fulvous. 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. 7 JULY, 1845. 



