Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America, 2851 



Page 982. Prof. Harrison Garman records Elassoma zonatum from Wac- 

 camaw River, Whitesville, North Carolina, and Little Pedee River, South 

 Carolina. Vertebrae 29; scales 34 to 36; D. IV, 9; A. Ill, 5. 



Page 1019. Under kk read : " gill membranes narrowly or broadly con- 

 nected." 



Page 1047. Before Ulocentra insert: 



U36(a). COTTOGASTER CHENEYI, Evermann & Kendall. 



Head 4 ; depth 6 ; eye 4 in head ; snout 4 ; maxillary 3| ; interorbital 

 width 5. D. XI-12; A. II, 8; scales 7-56-6. Body rather stout, heavy 

 forward, compressed behind; head heavy; mouth moderate, slightly 

 oblique, lower jaw included, maxillary reaching front of pupil; premaxil- 

 laries protractile. Cheeks, opercles, breast, and nape entirely naked; 

 scales of body large and strongly ctenoid; lateral line complete, straight; 

 median line of belly naked anteriorly, with ordinary scales posteriorly. 

 Fins large; dorsals separated by a space equal to - diameter of eye; 

 origin of spinous dorsal a little nearer origin of soft dorsal than tip of 

 snout, its base about equal to length of head ; longest dorsal spine 2 in 

 head, the outline of the fin gently and regularly rounded; soft dorsal 

 higher than spinous portion, the second to tenth rays about equal in 

 length, scarcely 2 in head, the first, eleventh, and twelfth rays but slightly 

 shorter than the others; anal moderate, its origin under base of third 

 dorsal ray, the spines slender, the second a little longer than the first, 

 whose length is 3f in head; longest anal rays about 2,1 in head; caudal 

 Innate, the lobes more produced and pointed than usual among darters; 

 pectorals long and pointed, the middle rays longest, about 1 in head, 

 reaching tips of ventrals ; ventrals well separated, not nearly reaching 

 vent, the longest rays 1 in head. Color in alcohol, back dark brownish, 

 covered with irregular spots and blotches of darker; side with about 8 or 

 9 large dark spots lying on the lateral line; belly pale; top of head dark ; 

 snout black; lower jaw and throat dark; a broad black line downward 

 from eye to throat; cheek and opercles rusty; spinous dorsal crossed by 

 a median dark line ; ventrals blue black ; other fins pale, but dusted with 

 rusty specks. An examination of the 14 cotypes shows some variation in 

 the species. In 2 examples there is a well-developed frenum, rendering 

 the premaxillaries nonprotractile, and in a third specimen the frenum is 

 partially developed; in some individuals the origin of the spinous dorsal 

 is exactly midway between the tip of snout and origin of soft dorsal. 

 The females and immature males are less highly colored than the adult 

 male described above. Length If to 2 inches. This species is most 

 closely related to Cottogaster shumardi, from which it may be readily dis- 

 tinguished by the shorter snout, the naked cheeks and opercles, the 

 smaller soft dorsal, the smaller anal, and the different coloration. Fifteen 

 examples of this interesting darter were obtained July 18, 1894, by 

 Messrs. Evermann & Bean in the Racket River near Norfolk, St. Law- 

 rence County, New York. It did not seem to be very common, as only 15 

 examples resulted from numerous hauls of the collecting seine. (Named 

 for Mr, A. Nelson Cheney, State fish-culturist of New York, in recognition 



