DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF FISH FROM TIPPECANOE 

 RIVER, INDIANA. 



David Starr Jordax and Barton Warren Evermann. 



Etlieostoma tippecanoe sp. now 



Type, U. S. National Museum, No. 40080. Allied to E. jessiw aud to 

 U. coeruleum. Head, 4;^ in length ; depth, 4f ; D. XIi-12, A. II, 7. Scales, 

 5-50-8, with pores ou about 23. Length, 1^ inches. 



Etlieostoma tippecanoe sp. nov. 



Body rather robust, compressed, with deep caudal peduncle; head 

 moderate, with pointed snout; eye small, as long as snout, 4i in head; 

 mouth large, oblique, the lower jaw somewhat included; maxillary 

 reaching nearly to middle of eye; opercle very short, little longer than 

 snout, its spine strong ; cheeks naked, or with one or two scales above ; 

 opercles well scaled ; breast naked; top of head naked ; nape with fine 

 scales; upper jaw not protractile; gill membranes nearly separate; 

 lateral line straight, ceasing under front of second dorsal. Dorsals 

 moderate, .slightly connected; anal spines subequal; pectorals shortish, 

 about as long, as head; caudal short, subtruncate. Color dark, the 

 scales covered with .fine punctulations; body with twelve dark (blue 

 in life '?) cross bands, nearly vertical and narrower than the interspaces; 

 the next the last one brightest and broadest ; between this and the last 

 two bright spots (red in life"?) with a dark one between them, at base 

 of caudal; a black humeral scale; first dorsal dark; second dorsal, 



Proceetlinss National Museum, Vol. XIII— No. 791. 



