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The head in the length four to four and oue-fourth times. Eye rather 

 large, three and one-third in head. Mouth small, slightly oblique, and 

 somewhat inferior. Dorsal rays X or XI, 10 to 12; anal II, 7. Lateral 

 line complete. Cheeks, opercles and breast densely scaled, the latter 

 occasionally naked (var. arcansammi). Scales of body, 5 or 6-48 to 50-7. 

 Color in alcohol olive, with about six or eight squarish dorsal blotches of 

 brown ; similar blotches on the sides of the caudal peduncle. Consider- 

 able amount of brown marbling along the sides of the body. Fins dark. 

 In life about eight dark bluish bands "j^ass down from the mottling along 

 the lateral line and nearly encircle the belly. The pectorals, anal, and 

 the caudal are said to be golden, spotted with brown. At the base of the 

 dorsal are some round red spots. The head is spotted with brown. 

 Length about three inches. 



Western Pennsylvania to Kansas and south. Has been taken in In- 

 diana at the following points: " Miami River, Indiana" (Coj^e 6, 1871, 

 212); Franklin County (-5, No. 2, 10); Kankakee River at Plymouth, 

 Marshall County (4, '88, 156); Crawford County {24, '93, 104). 



Forbes (14. No. 3, 24) found that the specimens of this species ex- 

 amined by him had eaten nothing but the larvse of small dipterous 

 insects. 



Etheostoma camurum (Cope). 

 Blue-breasted Darter. 



Nothoiiotus eamurm, Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, 8, 506. 



Body considerably compressed. Depth in the length four and one- 

 half to five times. Head in the length four. Snout shorter than the 

 eye. Four and one-half in head. Eye three and one-half. Profile de- 

 scending to snout with a gentle but increasing curve. Mouth oblique, 

 rather large, the maxillary reaching the eye ; the lower jaw short, so that 

 the mouth is slightly inferior. Gill membranes free from the isthmus 

 and from each other. Dorsal rays X or XI, 12 or 13 ; anal, II, 7 or 8. 

 Scales 6-53-8. The males are dusky — almost black above, while the 

 belly is paler. On the sides are numerous small crimson spots. Breast 

 and throat deep rich blue. Narrow dusky lines, one for each row of 

 scales, run along the sides. Fins black edged. Second dorsal, caudal, 

 and anal crimson and yellow. Females less gaudily colored and some- 

 what cross-barred. Length about two and one-half inches. Indiana to 

 Tennessee. White River at Indianapolis (1, '77, 375); Tippecanoe 

 River in Fulton County {23, '88, 51); Eel River System (4, '94, 39). 



One of the most gorgeously colored of our fishes. Lives in clear 

 streams and appears to be rather rare. 



