224: FISHES. 



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

 of fishes. [If. cymatogrammwn, (Abbott) Cope.] (? E 

 variatum, Kirtland.) (H. blennioperca, Cope.) 



2. D. simoierum, (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 1] ; 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. PERCIDJE. 



(The Perche.8.) 



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 



