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and descend on the side below the hiteral line. In life these blotches, in 

 the case of the male, are blue green, while the interspaces are yellow, 

 splotched with coppery red. Throat, cheeks and upper fius orange. 

 Dorsal fins dusky and with dark spots between the basis of the spines. 

 Anal and ventral blue black, or sometimes pale. Length about three 

 inches. 



Central and southern Indiana to northern Illinois and Arkansas. In 

 Indiana it has been taken in White River at Indianapolis (i, '77, 375) ; 

 Wabash River at Delphi (23, '88, 51) ; St. Joseph's River and Lower 

 Wabash (1, '77, 44) ; Fulton and Cass counties (^, '88, 160) ; Knox and 

 Posey counties (4, '88, 165); Owen County (S3, '88, 51); Logansport 

 U, '94, 39). 



This brilliant fish is found in clear and rapid waters. There is in the 

 Illinois State collection at Champaign a specimen of this species from 

 Rock River in northern Illinois. * 



Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland. 



Nothonotus maculatum, Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, 8, 507 ; N, sangiii- 

 fltms, op. cit. 506. 



Body moderately elongate and considerably compressed ; the caudal 

 peduncle thin and deep. Depth in the length, four and one-half to five 

 and one-fourth. Head pointed, the profile above descending to the tip 

 of the snout ; that of the lower jaw ascending to meet it. Snout equal 

 to the eye, four in the head. Interorbital space very narrow; upper 

 jaw not protractile. Mouth moderate, terminal, slightly oblique, maxil- 

 lary reaching to the front of the pupil. Dorsal rays XII, 12 or 13 ; anal 

 II, 9 ; the first anal spine the longest. Scales of the body 9-58-10. 

 Cheeks naked ; opercles scaled. General color in alcohol olive brown ; 

 sides covered with numerous irregular blotches of dusky. Many single 



'■'Etheostoma nianou.e Gilbert and Meek. 



Gilbert and Meek, 1887, 2S, 52. 



Body elongated, slightly compressed. Depth in the length six times. Head long and 

 pointed; in length of body, four. Snout long; four itnd one-third in the head ; longer than 

 the diameter of the eye, which enters five and one-half in head. Profile descending gently 

 to near the lip. Mouth large, terminal, slightly oblique, the lower jaw included. Maxillary 

 reaching back to front of pupil. Palatine teeth present. Gill membranes very slightly con- 

 nected. Caudal peduncle slender. Scales, 12-75-15. Cheeks and opercles naked, or with a 

 few rudimentary scales. Mid- ventral line covered with scales of the common kind. Dorsal 

 rays, XI or XII, 13 or 11 ; anal , II, 11 or 12. The spines weak. Pectorals not extending back 

 two-thirds the distance to the vent. 



Color olive, with about ten broad bars passing across the back and descending on the 

 sides; in the male, encircling the body. The interspaces contain some carmine red spots. 

 A dark band at the base of the caudal fin, and in front of the band two black spots. Dorsal 

 fin dusky, with spots of red and with a red edge. The other fins also mottled with red. 

 Length of the type specimens, three and three-fourths inches. 



This species was originally described from Missouri. It has since been found in Owsley 

 ■County, Kentucky, and may be looked for in southern Indiana. 



