REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS 105 



top of bead, vertical tins, and on side below lateral line; side with 10 

 large roundish parr-marks and a broadish median band of light-brick 

 or terra-cotta red; lower part of side light lemon-yellow with a number 

 of bluish-black blotches, chiefly anteriorly, somewhat larger than 

 similar ones on hack: belly from tip of lower jaw to anal tin rich 

 orange-red or cadmium, richesl between pectoral and ventral tins, this 

 l»and the full width of the belly; oo red dash on throat; suborbital 

 pah- rosy or purplish; cheek brassy, with a large dark blotch; opercle 

 rosy orange, olivaceous above; dorsal fin with aboul live rows of small 

 found black spots and a black border excepl anteriorly, where the 



rays are tipped with a light-rosy border; | toral light yellowish.; 



ventral and anal reddish, with broad white edge; caudal profusely 

 spotted with black lik<- the dorsal I'm. 



In spirits all tin- hrmht colors have faded, hut the black spots remain 

 distinct. These spols are largesl on the caudal peduncle, over which 

 they are evenly distributed. They are also pretty evenly distributed 

 over the entire side and top of bead; the space along the lateral 



line, however, has fewer spots. Those below the lateral line extend 

 more than halfway to the belly and are somewhat smaller than those 



above. Aboul fourteen spots show- on side of head. 



There is noi much variation in color, as shown by examination 

 of many examples. In all, the black spots completely cover the caudal 

 peduncle and the entire length of side from median line of hack to 

 some distance below the lateral line; the to]» and sides of the licul 

 are always spotted. The middle line of the side and the belly are always 

 richly colored, the parr-marks always present, and the dorsal, anal, 

 and ventral tins bright-edged. No conspicuous red dash was ohserved 

 on the lower jaw in any of the specimens from South Fork of Kaweah, 

 Soda Creek, or Wet .Meadow Creek, hut among those from Coyote 

 Creek were some showing considerable color. 



A cotype was described as follows: Back and top of head light 

 brown with numerous small black spots extending on dorsal and 

 caudal fins and on side distinctly to lateral line and below it less 

 plainly, those on caudal peduncle largest and blackest: black spots 

 also on top of head and halfway down sides on opercles and cheek; 

 middle of side with a broad red or orange-red band extending from 

 just behind base of pectoral to about middle of anal, broadest in mid- 

 dle portion; a large blotch of same color on opercle and some on cheek; 

 thirteen distinct parr-marks on side, a row of smaller similar spots 

 below; lower part of side light brown : a broad reddish or orange band 

 along ventral line from throat to vent, the anterior part yellowish; 

 dorsal fin covered with small black spots except anterior upper margin, 

 which is light pink, whole distal edge, except the pink, margined with 

 black, not quite continuous; pectoral olivaceous, with pink tinge, over- 



