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2255. Oligocephalus caeruleus (Storer). Blue darter; Rainbow darter; 



Soldierfish; Blue johnmj. 

 Upper Mississippi Valley, from Kentucky to Michigan and east to 



New York. 

 Etheostotna cserulea Storer, Proc. Bost. Soe. Nat. Hist., II, 1845, 47, 



Fox River, lU. 

 Pcecilosoma erythrogastrum Kirtland, Cleveland Annals Sci., 1854, 4, 



near Cleveland, Ohio. 

 PcBcilichthys versicolor Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, 1854, 304, Quincv, 



111. 

 PoBcilichthys spectabilis Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, 1854, 304, Osage 



River, Mo. 

 Pcecilosoma transversum Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XII, 



1860, 326, Lake Superior. 



2256. Oligocephalus lepidus (Baird and Girard). 



Streams of Arkansas, Texas, and Chihuahua; perhaps more than one 



species included. 

 Boleosoma lepida Baird and Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 



1853, 388, upper tributaries of the Rio Nueces, Tex. 

 Oligocephalus grahami Girard, loc. cit., XI, 1859, 102, Devil River, Tex. 

 Oligocephalus leonensis Girard, loc. cit., 102, Leon River, Tex. 

 Oligocephalus pulchellus Girard, loc. cit., 102, Gypsum Creek, a tributary 



to the Canadian River. 



2257. Oligocephalus fricksia (Hildobrand). 



Tributaries of Savannah River. 



Etheostotna fricksia Hildebrand, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., XXIX, 1924, 

 7, Brook near Augusta, Ga. 



2258. Oligocephalus iowse (Jordan and Meek). 



Upper Mississippi Valley, from Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado north to 



Assiniboia; abundant and widely distributed. 

 Etheostotna iowse Jordan and Meek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 



10, Chariton River, Chariton, Iowa. 

 Etheostotna quappella Eigeiimann and Eigenmann, Amer. Nat., 1892, 



963, Qu'Apeile River, Manitoba. 



2259. Oligocephalus aubeenaubei (Evermann). Aiiheenauhee darter. 



Aubeenaubee Creek, an eastern inlet to Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind. 

 Etheostoma aubeenaubei Evermann, Rept., U. S. Fish Com., XXV, 1899 

 (1900), 367, .\ubeenaubec Creek, Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind. 



2260. Oligocephalus hildebrandti (Evermann and Clark). 



Fletcher Lake, Fulton Co., Ind. 



Etheostoma hildebrandti Evermann and Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 XXIir, May 4, 1910, 81-88, fig. 1, Fletcher Lake, Fulton Co., Ind. 



2261. Oligocephalus jessise (Jordan and Brayton). Jessie's darter. 



Southern Illinois to Georgia and Mississippi. 



Poecilichthi/s jessise Jordan and Brayton, in Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. 2, 



1878, 227; creek near Ringgold, Ga. 

 Poecilichthy.i asprigenis Forbes, liull. 111. Lab. Nat. Hist., I, No. 2, 1877, 



41, small creek at Pekin, 111. 

 Pacilichthys sivaini Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 479, 



tributary of Pearl River, Monticello, Miss. 



2262. Oligocephalus luteovinctus (Gilbert and Swain). 



Stone River, Tenn. 



Etheostoma luteovinctum Gilbert and Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 

 1887, 58, Stone River near Nashville, Tenn. 



Genus 773. NIVICOLA Jordan and Evermann. 



Nivicola Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 1896, 

 1082 (Paecilichlhys borcalis Jordan). 



2263. Nivicola borealis (Jordan). Northern darter. 



St. Lawrence River at Montreal, Canada, and Muskoka Lakes near 



Lake Huron. 

 Purilichthys borealis Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 477, 



Montreal, Canada. 



