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thick, not contracted; cheeks naked; snout blackish; D. 

 IX-13; A. II, 8; lat. 1. 40; caudal rounded. Maryland 

 to N. C. 



2. B. macu/at/ceps, Cope. SPECKLED DARTER. Caudal 

 peduncle contracted; cheeks usually with a few scales; 

 caudal truncate; crown and muzzle closely brown- 

 spotted; D. X-13; A. II, 8; lat. 1. 41. Va. to Ga. 



** Anal spine single, weak. 



3. B. olmstedi, (Storer) Ag. TESSELLATED DARTER. 

 Fins stouter and higher than in the next; depth 5^- in 

 length; head 4^; olivaceous, fins barred; back tessel- 

 lated; a black streak forward, and another downward 

 from eye; cheeks and opercles scaly; neck and throat 

 bare; D. IX-14; A. I, 8; lat. 1. 50. New England to 

 Wisconsin; abundant eastward. (B. tessellation, DeK.) 



Var. atromaculata, (Grd.) has the neck and throat 

 scaly. 



4. B. maculaia, Ag. JOHNNY DARTER. Paler and 

 more distinctly tessellated; brownish yellow; upper 

 surface dotted with brown, the spots forming a few dark 

 bars on back; a dark line from eye to snout; and some- 

 times a bar below eye; smaller and slenderer than the 

 preceding, with smaller fins; eye as long as the narrow, 

 pointed snout; cheeks, neck and throat naked; opercles 

 scaly; D. IX-12; A. 1, 8 to I, 10; lat. 1. 45. E. U. S., 

 abundant, west of the Alleganies. (JB. brevipinne. Cope.) 



*** Anal spine entirely wanting. 



5. B. cesopus, Cope. Caudal peduncle contracted; 

 dorsal outline curved; fins high; brownish, with spots on 

 back and sides; D. VII -14; A. 10; lat. 1. 47. Allegheny 

 River, Penn, 



