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forming a Y-shaped figure; these are joined above, 

 making a sort of wavy lateral band; in life, these mark- 

 ings are of a clear deep green; sides sprinkled with 

 orange dots; head with olive stripes and the usual dark 

 bars; first dorsal dark orange brown at base, blue above, 

 becoming pale at tip; second dorsal and anal of a rich 

 blue green with some reddish; caudal greenish; young 

 specimens much duller, but the peculiar pattern is 

 unmistakable; body stout; head short and thick; D. 

 XII to XIII -13; A. II, 8; length 3 inches. Penn. to 

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

 of fishes. [jT. cymatogrammum, (Abbott) Cope.] H. 

 blennioperca, Cope.) 



2. D. simoierum, (Cope) Copeland. SNUB - NOSED 

 DARTERS. 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. 

 Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. 



10. ULOCENTRA, Jordan. SPECKS. 

 1. U. airipinnis, Jordan. BLACK -FINNED DARTER. 



Body rather stout; head extremely short and deep, 4-J in 

 length of body ; the snout very short and abruptly rounded 

 mouth small, with equal jaws; cheeks and opercles scaly; 

 fins large; head black above; about eleven indistinct, 

 bar-like blotches along the sides; fins chiefly black; D. 

 XII -10; A. II, 7. Cumberland River. 



//. BOLEQSOMA, DeKay. TESSELLATED DARTERS. 



> Arlina and Estrella, Grd. 

 * Anal spines two, very feeble. 



1. B. effulgens, (Grd.) Cope. Caudal peduncle 



