2852 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



of his valuable contributions to our knowledge of the food and game 



fishes of that State.) 



Cottogaster cheneyi, EVERMANN & KENDALL, Eull. U. S. Fish Cornm. 1897 (Feb. 9, 1898), 129, 



pi. 8, fig. 8, Racket River near Norfolk, New York. (Type, No. 48781. Coll. Ever- 



mann & Bean.) 



Page 1049. After Ulocentra gilberti add : 



1438(a). ULOCENTRA M K A 1)1 .!;. Jordan & Evermann, new species. 



Head3f; depth 4f; eye Skinhead; snout 3|; interorbital 5. D. XII-12; 

 A. II, 7; scales 7-48-6. Body rather heavy, somewhat fusiform; head 

 large ; snout blunt, decurved, profile rising abruptly to interorbital, thence 

 nearly horizontal to origin of dorsal, from which it descends gently in a 

 straight line to caudal peduncle ; opercular spine small but sharp ; mouth 

 low, horizontal, rather large, the maxillary reaching vertical at front of 

 orbit; premaxillaries protractile; branchiostegal membranes not con- 

 nected, free from the isthmus ; ventral fins close together, the space sepa- 

 rating their bases about -J diameter of orbit ; fins all moderate ; distance 

 from tip of snout to origin of spinous dorsal 3 in body ; spinous and soft 

 dorsals close together, the space separating them about 2 in orbit; longest 

 soft dorsal rays 1* in head, about equaling those of anal ; the two anal 

 spines of about equal length, the first the stouter; pectorals long, longer 

 than head, their tips passing those of ventrals but not reaching vent ; 

 ventrals short, 1 in head; caudal slightly lunate when expanded. 

 Scales rather large, strongly ctenoid; cheeks and breast naked; opercle 

 scaled above, naked below; nape scaled; lateral line complete, straight; 

 ventral line of body covered with ordinary adherent scales. Color in alco- 

 hol, yellowish or olivaceous above and on sides, the back with 6 dark 

 saddle-like blotches, the first just anterior to origin of spiuous dorsal, 

 the second under the fifth and sixth spines, the third under the last two 

 spines, the fourth under the sixth and seventh soft rays, the fifth just pos- 

 terior to the last dorsal ray, and the sixth, which is quite small, upon the 

 caudal peduncle at the base of the caudal fin ; sides blotched with dark, 6 

 to 8 larger dark blotches along side just below lateral line, sometimes 

 more or less continuous with the dark dorsal blotches ; a dark blotch at 

 base of middle caudal rays ; belly pale ; top of head dark ; a dark spot at 

 lower posterior angle of eye and a smaller one back of it on upper edge of 

 opercle; a dark band downward from eye; opercle dark; upper lip dark, 

 interrupted by a light line at the symphysis; spinous dorsal pale, with 

 a broad dark band through its lower third ; soft dorsal crossed by 3 or 

 4 irregular lines of dark specks; caudal with about 4 broad dark cross 

 bars; other fins pale. Length 2 inches. This species somewhat resem- 

 bles U. gillcrti, but differs from it in the larger head, stouter body, larger 

 scales, naked cheeks, larger mouth, and in other respects. Known only 

 from Indian Creek, basin of Powell River, east Tennessee, where 3 exam- 

 ples were collected October 17, 1893. (Named for Mrs. Meadie Hawkins 

 Evermann.) 



Ulocentra meadice, JORDAN & EVEKMANN, new species, Indian Creek, Cumberland Gap, 

 Tennessee. (Type, No. 48903. Coll. Dr. R. 11. Gurley.) 



