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dusky blotches. A small black spot at the base of the caudal. Length 

 about four inches. 



Distributed sparingly from northern Ohio to Arkansas. Wabash 

 River, at Wabash and Terre Haute (23, '88, 51) ; Monroe County {1, 

 '85, 411) ; Lower Wabash River (i, '77, 44) ; Lawrence County (^-5, '84, " 

 205); Cass County (4, '88, 159); Knox, Gibson and Posey counties 

 (4, '88, 164); Owen County (4, '88, 167(; Logausport (4, '94, 39); 

 Crawford County {2^, '93, 103). 



There is little definite knowledge concerning the habits of this fish. 

 Forbes found its food to be essentially the same as that of E aspro. Prof. 

 Kirsch found it living only on grassy bottoms (4, '94, 39). 



Etheostoma sciERUM (Swain). 



Serrariasciera, Swain, 23, '84, 205. 



Body rather elongate and compressed. Depth in the length five and 

 one-half. Head in length four times. Snout equal to the eye, four in 

 length of head. Profile considerably convex in front of the eye. Upper 

 lip not protractile. Mouth rather small, the lower jaw slightly the 

 shorter. Palatine teeth present. Preopercle serrated, at least in the 

 smaller specimens. Gill-membranes broadly united, Pectoral fins short. 

 Dorsal rays, XHI, 14. Anal II, 9. Scales 8-68-12. Breast, cheeks 

 and opercles scaled. Middle of the belly with a row of slightly enlarged 

 scales. Color dusky, with about eight large brown blotches along the 

 side, and some indistinct dorsal blotches. A dark streak through the 

 eye to the opercle. Three black spots at the base of the caudal fin in a 

 cross-row. Fins with more or less black. 



Length sometimes as great as five inches. 



Distributed from Indiana to Texas. Carroll County, in the Tippe- 

 canoe (4, '88, 160) ; Monroe County (23, '88, 51, and 1, '85, 411) ; Owen 

 County (23, '88, 51) ; Knox, Gibson and Posey counties (4, '88, 164) ; 

 White River, at Spencer (4., '88, 167). 



Etheostoma evides (Jordan and Copeland). 



Alvordms evides, Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, 8, 503. 



Body rather stout, moderately compressed. Depth in the length five 

 and one-half; head in length, four. Snout short, equal to the diameter 

 of the eye ; four in length of head. Profile descending rather rapidly in 

 front of the eyes. Mouth terminal, slightly oblique, moderate in size, 

 the maxillary reaching a little behind the anterior border of the eye. 

 No palatine teeth. Dorsal rays XI, 11; anal rays II, 8. Scales 

 8-65-11. Middle line of the belly with a row of somewhat modified 

 scales. Cheeks naked ; opercles scaled. Ground color dark olive, with 

 about eight large quadrate dusky blotches, which pass across the back 



