280 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



ECHEOSTOMA FLABELLARE Rafiuesque. 



Fantailed Darter. 



Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, 8, 513. 



Body elongate, compressed; head narrow and pointed. Caudal pedun- 

 cle deep. Depth in the length five. Head in the length three and one- 

 half to four. Mouth terminal, somewhat oblique. Jaws equal, or the 

 lower the longest. Maxillary reaching to the anterior border of the pujjil. 

 Snout equal to diameter of the eye, four in head. Gill-membranes broadly 

 united across the isthmus. Upper jaw not protractile. Scales 7-45 

 to 50-8. Cheeks and opercles naked. Lateral line developed about 

 half-way. Dorsal rays VII or VIII, 11 or 12; anal rays II, 7 or 8. 

 Dusky olive, with about ten dark cross-bars in the male, and often with 

 longitudinal lines produced by each scale having a dark center (variety 

 lineolatmn). Spinous dorsal with a dusky band along the upper edge. 

 Soft dorsal barred with dusky. Caudal cross-barred. An enlarged black 

 scale at the shoulder. Length about two and one-half inches. 



Distributed from western New York to North Carolina and westward. 

 Carroll County (23, '88, 51); Ohio County {23, '88, 56); Franklin 

 County (5, No. 2, 11); Monroe County (1, '85, 411); White River at In- 

 dianapolis (i, '77, 43, 375); region about Lawrence County {23, '84, 

 205) ; Marshall and Whitley Counties (4, '88, 160) ; Vanderburgh and 

 Owen counties (4, '88, 166) ; Vigo County {16, 96); Wabash Valley 

 {U, No. 1, 3i); Eel River system U, '94, 39); Decatur County 

 (Shannon). 



Dr. Jordan states that this is the most active and wary of the darters 

 and the most hardy in the aquarium. Foi'bes {H, No. 3, 24) found 

 that it feeds on chironomous larvae, ephemerids and the smallest crusta- 

 ceans (Cyclops). 



Etheostoma 8QUAMICEPS Jordan. 



Jordan and Gilbert, 1882, 8, 514. 



Body rather stout, little compressed anteriorly. Depth in length five. 

 Head in length three and one-half to four. Caudal peduncle deep and 

 compressed. Head with the upper profile descending gently to the nos- 

 trils, then rapidly to the lip ; the snout, therefore, blunt. Snout equal 

 to the eye, five in the head. Mouth large, terminal, oblique, the maxil- 

 lary reaching the middle of the pupil. Gill-membranes slightly joined 

 across the isthmus. Pectoral fins not reaching the vent. Lateral line 

 wanting on the caudal peduncle. Scales 6-50 to 60-6 to 9. Opercles 

 and breast scaled, and usually the cheeks also. Dorsal rays IX or X, 12 

 or 13; anal, II, 7. Color olive, with many mottliogs and splotches of 



