Fishes of Upper Georgia. 311 



water, with Percina caprodes. Silver Creek, Rocky Creek. 

 Known to the fisherman as Crawl-a-bottom. • 



BOLEOSOMA. 



= Boleosoma Dekay, N. Y. Zoology, 1842, 20. ("Type B. tessdlatum.) 

 > Arlina Grd., Proc. Phil. Ac. Sci., 1859, 64. (Type A. effulgens.) 

 >Estrella Gkd., 1. c. 65. (Type.S. atromaculata.) 

 ?>Cottogaster Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z., 1863, 4. (Type B. tessel- 

 lation, Thompson.) 



3. BOLEOSOMA STIGM^UM, sp. nov. 



Bocty slender, of about the size and form of Boleosoma brevipinne Cope. 

 Depth 5 in length in adult. Head 44, in length, narrow and thin, tlie snout 

 pointed. Mouth small, inferior; intermaxillaries projectile, the skin of 

 the lip and front not continuous ; vomerine teeth. 



Fins rather large, D. X, 11 or 12; A, II, 7; the spines well developed 

 and subequal. Caudal emarginate. Scales rather large, 5-46-7, lateral 

 line distinct. Opercles scaly, cheeks and neck also. 



Colors rather bright. Tessellated above, as usual in Boleosoma ; fins 

 mottled; sides with about 8 M or W-shaped dark green blotches below 

 lateral line, — fainter and smaller than in D. blennioides, — and various 

 duller ones above. Body in the larger specimens sprinkled with small 

 orange dots, which are more conspicuous after death, when the green has 

 faded. Pectorals and caudal yellowish barred. Spinous dorsal with a 

 band of bright orange-red above, and one or two narrow dark ones below 

 it. A dark stripe forward from eye, and another downward. 



Length of largest specimens, 2 inches. 



Habitat. In small tributaries of the Etowah and Oosta- 

 naula Rivers, especially in clear waters and in mill-ponds of 

 the hill-conntry. Known to boys and fishermen as Speck. 



It will perhaps be necessary to revive the genus Arlina 

 for this species, B. effulgens, and B. maculaticeps. It would 

 differ from Boleosoma in the presence of two well-developed 

 sub-equal anal spines. 



PERCINA. 



< Percina Haldemax, Journ. Phil. Ac. Sc, VIII, 1842, 330. (Type 

 Perca nebufosa Hakleman = E. caprodes Raf.) 



= Pileoma Dekay, Fishes N. Y., 1842, 16. (Type P. semifasdala Dek. 

 = E. caprodes Raf.) 



— Asproperca Heckel, MSS. in Canestrini, Verhaud. Zool. Bot. Ver- 

 ein, Wien, X, 1860. 



