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Diagnosis (North Carolina specimens). — Depth contained 5.3 times in length; head 

 heavy, contained 4.3 times in length; eye large, contained 3.5 times in head; maxillary extend- 

 ing to front of eye; lower jaw included; throat, cheeks, and neck above without scales; opercles 

 scaly; scales in lateral series 52 to 65, in transverse seies 9 + 9 to 9+11; dorsal rays xi + 10; 

 anal rays ii,8 or ii,9. Color: Male— olive green, with 8 deep blue-green cross-bars; an orange- 

 brown lateral band forming brownish spaces between the cross-bars; belly, breast, throat, 

 lower jaw, cheeks, opercles and snout orange or orange yellow; a blue-black bar posterior to 

 eye, a golden crescent anterior to this; spinous dorsal rusty orange, last rays black; soft dorsal 

 orange at base and speckled; caudal yellow, with 2 orange spots at base and several dark cross- 

 bars; pectorals and anal yellow, with faint bars. I'emale — the orange color of male replaced 

 by pale yellow, the markings on side black, dorsal membranes orange at tip and base, {evides, 

 handsome.) 





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Fig. 111. Darter. Hadropter us evides. 



This very brilliantly colored species inhabits the Mississippi basin, and ranges 

 from North Carolina to Indiana, and from Arkansas to Iowa. In North Carolina 

 it is abundant in the French Broad and Swannanoa. Length, 3 inches. 



217. HADROPTERUS PELTATUS (Stauffer). 

 Shielded Darter. 



Etheostoma peltatum Stauffer Ms., in Cope, Proceedings Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1864. 

 233; Conestoga Creek, Pa. Jordan, 18896, 126, 130, 133, 134, 139; Tar, Neuse, Cape Fear, Yadkin and 

 Catawba rivers and various tributaries. Evemiann & Cox, 1896, 305; Neuse River. 



Etheostoma neii'sense Cope, 1870a, 261; Neuse River near Raleigh. Cope, 18706, 449; "turbulent waters 

 of Neuse". 



Etheostoma maculatum. Cope, 18706, 449; Buck Creek, tributary of Catawba. 



Alvordius crassus, .Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 368; Neuse River at Goldsboro. 



Hadropterus peltatus, Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 1034. 



Diagnosis. — Body cylindrical, compressed posteriorly, depth contained 5.6 times in 

 • length; head rather large, .25 length; maxillary extending slightly beyond anterior margin of 

 eye; lower jaw slightly included; eye .25 length of head, equal to blunt snout; scales in lateral 

 series 52 to 56, in transverse series 6 + 9; scales on head as stated in key; fins comi)arati\ely 

 small; dorsal rays xiii+ 12; anal rays ii, 10; caudal slightly concave behind; pectorals shorter 

 than head, extending barely as far backwards as ventral. Color: pale yellow with black 

 markings; cross blotches on back and irregular lengthwise lines above lateral line; 6 large 

 quadrangular spots on sides, wuth faint bars inter\ ening, the whole sometimes merged into a 

 lateral bar; top of head, a bar below eye, snout, opercle, and axillary band all black; anterior 

 dorsal with black median band and black spots on edge; posterior dorsal and caudal faintly 

 barred; pectorals and ventrals dusky; female paler, (peltatus, shielded.) 



