ETHEOSTOMATIDZ. Lt 
Fins large; rays, dorsal XII, 10; anal II, 7. Base of spinous dor- 
sal 14 times length of head, 34 in length; the spines high, the highest 
about ? the length of the head. 
» Dorsal fins contiguous, with a slight connecting membrane. Second 
dorsal higher, but smaller than first, its base about equal to the length 
of the head. Pectoral fins moderate, reaching past the middle of the 
dorsal. 
Color olivaceous ; head above entirely black ; a black bar below eye ;_ 
back with eight dark cross-blotches; about eleven bar-like blotches, 
somewhat indistinct, arranged along the lateral line. Fins chiefly 
black. Membranes of the second dorsal and ventral fins entirely black, 
that of spinous dorsal with a broad, black, horizontal bar at base, above 
which are numerous distinct black oblique streaks; anal with a broad 
black bar and caudal and pectorals largely dusky. It is likely that 
females, and male fish at other seasons, will be found to be paler in 
color. 
Length of type-specimen 24 inches. 
Collected in a tributary of the Cumberland River, near Nashville, 
Tenn., by Prof. A. Winchell, to whom the National Museum is indebted 
for a fine series of Tennessee fishes. 
9. ETHEOSTOMA SQUAMICEPS, sp. nov. 
Catonotus fontinalis, PUTNAM, MSS. (1860) (not E. fontinalis Raf.). 
A species of the genus Htheostoma, found in the streams of Kentucky, 
has been fora long time indicated in manuscript, but has never yet 
been fully described. 
The following account is taken from two fine specimens in the United 
States National Museum (No. 1345), collected by Dr. Bebb, at Russell- 
ville, Ky., and labelled Catonotus fontinalis by Prof. Putnam. 
Body oblong, rather elongate, pretty strongly compressed, the general 
form being much like that of FH. flabellaris, but with deeper caudal pe- 
duncle, the depth being about one-fifth of the length. Head large, 34 
in length, shorter and stouter than in BE. flabellaris ; the jaws much 
shorter and exactly equal; eye rather large, 44 in head. Cheeks and 
opercles thickly scaly, as are the throat and region in front of the dor- 
sal; middle line of the belly with ordinary scales. Lateral line almost 
complete, wanting on about ten of the posterior scales, but with occa- 
sional perforated scales behind the continuous series. 
