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blue-black; pectorals golden yellow, unmarked; ventrals 

 golden yellow, blue-black at base. Female paler, dark 

 markings less distinct ; pectorals pale olive; other fins 

 dark, edged with pale yellow; black spot on front of 

 first dorsal well defined. Color in spirits, general color 

 dark olive, lighter below, each scale with a vertical 

 dusky line; bands black, narrower than the interspaces; 

 breast and throat dark. Vertical fins dark, edged 

 with light; a black spot on front of first dorsal; 

 ventrals black with a light margin ; pectorals light, un- 

 marked ; a black spot at base of caudal. Length 1^4 

 inches. 



Taken in the Olentangy River and in Big Walnut 

 Creek, tributaries of the Scioto River, near Columbus, 

 Franklin County, Ohio. Two of the types are in the 

 National Museum and the third is in the collection of 

 President D. S. Jordan. These type specimens are from 

 Big Walnut Creek. This species lives in the swiftest 

 ripples with Etheostotna /Jabellare, E. variatum, E. 

 camurum, etc. From E. tippecanoe, which it most re- 

 sembles, it is distinguished at once by coloration and 

 by the absence of scales on the nape and anterior 

 dorsal region. 



At the suggestion of President D. S.Jordan, who 

 has been so kind as to examine our specimens and de- 

 scription, we name the species after the Scioto River. 



68. Etheostoma flabellare, Raf. Abundant; 

 some of our specimens approach the variety lineo- 

 latum. 



Q9. Coitus ictalops, [Raf.]. Four specimens were 

 taken in Brackenridge's Run. 



