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blotches and zigzag markings of brown. A dark streak from eye to 

 snout. Length about two inches. 



Indiana southward and westward. Posey County (^, '<:^8, 164, 166). 



BoLEOSOMA HiSTRio (J. and G.). 



Etheostoma Imtrio, Jordan and Gilbert, 1887, :2'^, 47. 



Body rather elongate, the depth in the length about five times ; 

 slightly com]>ressed. Head narrow ; in length of body, four to four and 

 one-fourth. Snout short, nearly five in the length of the head. The 

 profile rapidly descending until at the tip of the snout it is perpendicular. 

 Mouth very small ; inferior ; upper lip somewhat protractile. Maxillary 

 reaching a perpendicular from the anterior border of the pupil. Gill- 

 membranes broadly united across the isthmus. Dorsal rays X, 13; 

 anal rays II, 7. Lateral line complete. Scales 6-53 to 57-8. Cheeks 

 naked; opercles naked, or with a few large scale-. Pectoral fins long 

 and narrow, re«ching the vent. Color dusky, with about ten obscure 

 brown blotches along the sides and six acro?s the back. Brown streaks 

 on the snout below the eye and on the opercle A spot at the base of 

 the caudal, but this sometimes absent. All the fins more or less mottled 

 and barred with brown. In life the color is dark green Length, one 

 and three-fourths inches. 



Originally described from Fort Benton, Arkan.sas. More recently a 

 number of specimens has been taken at Patoka, Cxibson County, son^e 

 of them considerably larger than the original types (4, '88, 164). 



BoLEOSOMA coPELANDi (Jordan). 



Cottogaster copelandi, Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, S, 498. 



Body long and slender; depth in length, about five and one-half. 

 Head long and narrow ; contained in the length four and one-fourth 

 times. Mouth moderate, horizontal, somewhat inferior; the maxillai-y 

 reaching the pupil. Eye rather large. Gill-membranes very slightly 

 united. Lateral line complete. Scales along the sides, forty-four to 

 fifty-nine ; those on the middle line of the belly enlarged and spinous ; 

 sometimes fallen away, leaving a naked strip. Cheeks naked or scaled ; 

 breast naked ; opercles with scales. Dorsal rays XI, 10 or 11 ; anal 

 rays II, 8 or 9. Color olive, with many specks above of brown and 

 with some oblong blotches along the lateral line ; no bright colors ; a 

 dusky bar across the spinous dorsal. Length about two and one-half 

 inches. 



Lake Champlain to Arkansas. Originally described from specimens 

 taken by Mr. Copeland in White River at Indianapolis (1, '77, 375) ; 

 Carroll, Vigo and Owen counties (,.''•>, '88, 50); Posey, Knox and Vigo 

 counties (4, '88, 164, 167). 



