224 FISHES. 



Kas. and S., abundant in Indiana, one of the handsomest 

 of fishes. \H. cymatogrammum, (Abbott) Cope.] (? E. 

 vciriatum, Kirtland.) (J5T. blennioperca, Cope.) 



2. D. s/moterum, ( Cope ) Copeland. SNUB - NOSED 

 DARTER. Body short and thick; head very short and 

 blunt; a series of square dark green blotches along sides 

 and another on the back; spotted above with red; belly 

 saffron; soft dorsal chiefly blood-red; first dorsal orange- 

 margined; D. X 11 ; A. II, 7; lat. 1. 52; length 3 inches. 

 Holston R. 



//. PERCINA, Haldeman. LOG PERCHES. 



= Pileoma, DeKay. 



1. P. caprodes, (Raf.) Girard. LOG PERCH. HOG FISH. 

 JACK PIKE. Salmon yellow or greenish, with about 

 fifteen transverse dark bands from back to belly, these 

 usually alternating with shorter and fainter ones reach- 

 ing about to lateral line; a black spot at base of caudal; 

 belly with a row of enlarged plates, shed at some 

 seasons; D. XIII 12; A. II, 10. Great Lakes and 

 Western Streams, abundant, E. to L. Champlain; the 

 largest of the Darters, reaching a length of six or eight 

 inches. (P. zebra, semifasciata, nebulosa, and bimaculata 

 of authors.) 



FAMILY XC. PERCID^E. 



(The Percys.) 



Body oblong, more or less compressed, covered with 

 rather small, strongly ctenoid scales; opercular bones 

 mostly serrated; teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer 

 and palatines; mouth slightly oblique; dorsals two, dis- 

 tinct, both well developed; ventrals thoracic I, 5; anal 

 with one or two spines; branchiostegals seven; air bladder 

 present, moderately developed; intestinal canal with a 



