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a. Scales larger, about 82 in lateral series; snout long and slender; gill-membranes widely 

 connected across isthmus; general color of body yellowish green, with about 10 broad 

 dusky cross bars and 10 dusky blotches along side; a very distinct black shoulder spot. 



sqiiamatus. 



{Hypohomus, uniform below). 



219. HYPOHOMUS AURANTIACUS (Cope). 

 Orange-colored Darter. 



CoUogaster aurantiacus Cope, Journal Academy Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1868 (1869), 211; Holston 



River, Saltville, Va. 

 Hypohomus aurantiacus, Cope, 18706, 449; French Broad River, Madison County, N. C. Jordan & Evermann, 



1896, 1040, pi. clxviii, fig. 442. 

 Hadropterus aurantiacus. Bean, Proceedings U. S. National Museum 1885, 165; French Broad River, N. C. 



Diagnosis.- — Body quite elongate, slightly compressed, the depth contained 6 times in 

 length; head contained 4.25 to 4.5 times in length; mouth very slightly oblique; maxillary 

 reaching to anterior margin of pupil; lower jaw included; snout decurved, rather long, its 

 length contained 3.5 in head; diameter of eye less than snout; interorbital width .2 length of 

 head; gill-membranes slightly joined; scales firm, regular, those in lateral series about 100, 

 in transverse series 14-1-15, about 85 with pores; cheeks, nape, and opercles covered with fine 

 scales; breast naked; lateral line straight, continuous, begiiming opposite upper margin of 

 pupil; dorsal fins long, low, separated by a space equal to half diameter of eye; dorsal rays 

 XV -I- 15, the longest spines less than half length of head, the longest soft rays .33 longer than 

 longest spines; anal fin as high as soft dorsal, the rays ii,ll; caudal margin nearly straight; 

 pectorals rather long, extending half way to anal. Color: olive green, with orange tinge; a black 

 lateral band, about width of eye, formed of connected blotches; a row of yellow spots above this 

 band; a row of small browTi spots on each side above level of eye, extending from head to a 

 point under soft dorsal; chin and throat orange; head dark above; spinous dorsal orange in 

 front, yellow behind, (aurantiacus, orange colored.) 



Fig. 112. Orange-colored Darter. Hypohomus aurantiacus. 



A very beautiful species, peculiar to the upper tributaries of the Tennessee. 

 Only 2 specimens appear to have been recorded from North Carolina. One, 

 4.6 inches long was obtained by Cope (1870); the other, in the National Museum, 

 was collected at Asheville in 1885 by Dr. J. A. Watson and described by Dr. 

 Bean. 



220. HYPOHOMUS SQUAMATUS (Gilbert & Swain). 



Scaly Darter. 



Etheostoma sqtutnialus Gilbert & Swain, Proceedings U. S. National Museum, 1887, 50; French Broad River, 



Tenn. 

 Etheostoma squamatum, Jordan, 18896, 153; Spring Creek (tributary to French Broad) at Hot Springs, N. C 

 Hypohomus squamatus, Jordan & Evermann, 1896,1040. 



