Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1075 



unlikely, but the coloration is more like that of E. inscriptum. Length 



2 inches. Chickasawha River, Mississippi, (elegans, elegant.) 



Nanostoma elegans,* HAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 493, shallow rocky branch of Chicka- 



sawha River, Enterprise, Mississippi, (Type, No. 27455. Coll. Hay); JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 510, 1883. 

 Etheostoma lynceum, HAY MS., JORDAN, Cat. Fish. N. A., 80, 1885; same type; name a substitute 



for elegaHS, as Boleichthys ele<ja>is, GIRARD, was then placed in Etheostoma. 



1461. ETHEOSTOMA ZONALE (Cope). 



Head 4 to 5; depth 5 to 6. D. X or XI-10 to 12; A. II, 6 to 8; scales 

 6-48 to 53-9, pores 44 to 50. Body slender, somewhat compressed. Head 

 small, rather short; the mouth small, subiiiferior. Snout very short, 

 decurved, rather obtuse, maxillary scarcely reaching front of eye ; eye 

 longer than snout, 3 to 4 in head. Cheeks, opercles, and neck, more or 

 less scaled, breast usually naked. Teeth very feeble, those on vomer not 

 evident, probably none on the palatines. First dorsal well developed, 

 separated from the second, which is higher and shorter than the spinous 

 dorsal, and considerably larger than the anal ; caudal emarginate, pec- 

 toral as long as head or a little longer. Bright olivaceous above, golden 

 below ; 6 dark brown quadrate dorsal spots, which connect by alternat- 

 ing spots with a broad, brown, lateral band, from which 8 narrower dark 

 bluish bands more or less completely encircle the belly; paired, anal, and 

 caudal fins golden, brown-spotted ; middle half of the first dorsal crim- 

 son ; a series of round crimson spots near the base of the second dorsal ; 

 occiput, a band on muzzle and 1 below eye, black; a black spot on oper- 

 culum and 1 at base of pectoral; females duller and speckled, with ven- 

 trals barred and lateral bars feebler. Length 3 inches. Mississippi 

 Valley from Ohio, northern Indiana (Kankakee River), west through 

 Iowa, and south through Kentucky and Tennessee to Alabama, Louisi- 

 ana, and Arkansas, in small, clear streams; locally abundant in weedy or 

 gravelly places. t Very variable, (zonalis, banded.) 



PacilicUhys zonalis, COPE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 212, Holston River, Virginia. 



(Coll. Cope.) 

 Nanostoma vinctipes, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 236, tributary of Illinois River, 



Naperville, Illinois, (Type, No. 23454. Coll. B. B. Copeland); females with barred 



ventrals. 



Astatichthys zonalis, VAILLANT, Recherches, 110, 1873. 

 Nanostoma zonale, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 510, 1883. 

 Etheostoma zonale, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, 54; BOULENGKR, Cat., i, 83. 



Represented southwestward by 



ETHEOSTOMA ZONALE ARCANSANTJM, Jordan & Gilbert. 



This form differs from the typical form, in having the breast nearly or 

 quite naked. Found in the Ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas. 



*The specimens from Mississippi called Nanostoma zonale by Hay, seem to be the female of 

 his elegans. 



f A specimen in the Museum of Comparative ZocJlogy from Delaware River apparently 

 belongs to Etheostoma zonale. It is very deep in body, the depth 4f in length, equal to length of 

 the short head; scales 53. There is no other record of the species from this region and the 

 locality may be doubtful. 



