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profile strongly convex; snout short and blunt ; eye large, placed high; 

 mouth very small, horizontal, inferior, the lower jaw included all around. 

 Preinaxillaries not protractile; maxillary short, not adnate, reaching to 

 opposite front of eye, 4 in head; teeth small. Cheeks, opercles, and 

 breast naked ; nape naked in one specimen examined, scaly in the others ; 

 lateral line complete ; belly evenly scaled. Gill membranes broadly con- 

 nected. Fins rather low ; dorsals contiguous ; pectorals long, i longer 

 than head, reaching beyond ventrals to vent. Males, in spirits, dusky 

 green, the belly paler ; back irregularly mottled and blotched with black 

 and strewn with specks of saffron yellow ; 6 distinct black cross blotches 

 on dorsal line ; 8 to 10 roundish or quadrate black blotches on sides, a 

 smaller spot behind the last of these at base of caudal, these lateral 

 blotches somewhat connected ; head dusky above ; a faint bar below eye ; 

 axil black ; fins nearly plain. In life, male olive green, light green below ; 

 markings all dark green ; base and lower edge of pectoral tinged with 

 saffron; base and tip of first dorsal bright snuffy brown; second dorsal 

 and caudal olive, speckled ; lower fins pale yellow. Female and younger 

 specimens have the body more speckled ; the pectorals and caudal barred 

 with dark. Length 2| to 3 inches. Upper waters of the Tennessee River ; 

 locally abundant; a beautiful little fish, thus far known only from the 

 clear, cold waters of the middle and south forks of the Holston and the 

 south fork of the Swannanoa, a most beautiful stream flowing from the 

 flanks of Black Mountain into the French Broad. 



Etheosloma swannanoa, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 360, South Fork of 

 Holston River, Holstein Mills, Virginia; Middle Fork of Holston River, Marion, 

 Virginia, and South Fork of Swannanoa River, Black Mountain, North Caro- 

 lina (Type, No. 39861. Coll. Jordan, Evermann and Jenkins); BOULENQER, Cat., I, 81. 



1456. ETHEOSTOMA THALASSINUM (Jordan & Brayton). 



Head 3f to 4 ; depth 4 to 5 ; eye 3i to 4 in head. D. IX to XI-10 to 12 ; 

 A. II, 7 or 8 ; scales 5-40 to 48-7. Body rather stout, compressed behind, 

 the back somewhat arched. Head large, the snout rather blunt and con- 

 vex in profile. Eye large, high up, about equal to snout ; interorbital space 

 rather narrow. Mouth moderate, slightly oblique, the maxillary reaching 

 to the orbit. Upper jaw slightly longer than the lower. Head entirely 

 naked ; throat naked ; neck naked anteriorly ; opercular spine obtuse ; 

 Fins all large; membrane of the first dorsal continued to the base of the 

 second ; longest dorsal spine scarcely shorter than the soft rays, the base 

 of the spinous dorsal a little longer than that of the soft dorsal ; anal not 

 much smaller than the soft dorsal, its first spine the longer; caudal fin 

 deeply lunate ; pectorals as long as head, reaching nearly to vent. Male, 

 in life, with body dark green and blotched above ; sides with 6 to 9 dark 

 blue-green vertical bars, the 5 next the last most distinct; spinous dorsal 

 reddish at base, then a broad black band, the uppermost third of a bright 

 ferruginous red ; second dorsal blackish at base, reddish above ; caudal 

 with 2 orange blotches at base, black mesially, pale orange distally ; anal 

 fin of a brilliant blue-green color at base, pale at tip ; ventrals greenish ; 

 head mostly grass green ; the streaks forward and downward from eye 



