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1467. ETHEOSTOMA RUFILINEATTJM (Cope). 



Head 4 ; depth 4i to 5. D. X to XII-11 to 13 ; A. II, 8 or 9 ; scales 

 6-45 to 48-7. Stout, the dorsal line elevated and descending regularly 

 from the base of the first dorsal to the end of the muzzle. Muzzle short, 

 regularly conic, about equal to eye, which is smaller than usual, 4| in 

 head. Premaxillaries not protractile; gill membranes not united across 

 the isthmus. Pectoral as long as head; lateral line complete. Dorsal 

 well developed; caudal peduncle deep; caudal fin small, truncate. 

 Scales large; cheeks, nape, and breast naked, opercles scaled. In life, 

 male, green, the body with longitudinal stripes, each as wide as one row 

 of scales, and formed by darker edges of the scales; some of the scales 

 with center spots of bright orange brown; usually from 2 to 6 consecutive 

 scales in each series orange brown, then an equal number olive, the olive 

 and orange areas irregularly alternating; head with an olive-black band 

 through snout to nape ; an interrupted band below this, still lower 2 

 blackish spots ; usually about 5 black dashes on each side of head, a 

 characteristic color mark ; angle of mouth orange; lips orange, except in 

 front ; lower jaw with an orange spot ; interopercle, opercle, cheek, and 

 first three branchiostegals each with orange spots ; belly orange yellow ; 

 breast deep blue; fins all bordered with scarlet, a very narrow blackish 

 edge and a narrow pale streak between it and the scarlet ; spinous dorsal 

 straw color, dotted with black and edged with orange; second dorsal 

 similar, more yellow ; caudal scarlet, its center yellow, its base with a 

 large blue-black spot, which extends into the yellow ; base of caudal 

 yellow, an orange spot above and below; anal bright yellow at base, 

 then scarlet, with narrow pale and dark edgings ; ventrals similar ; pec- 

 torals yellow, with a blackish and a scarlet crescent at base and a sub- 

 terminal scarlet band. Females green with 8 faint dark cross bars, 

 obscure and interrupted; scales on sides with yellow streaks arranged 

 like the brown streaks on the male ; fins all yellow ; anal and ventrals 

 tinged with orange; pectorals tinged with orange anteriorly, all the fins 

 with bars or dark spots; caudal blackish, its base yellow; head with 

 black markings similar to those on the male, but without scarlet. Length 

 3 inches. Upper tributaries of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Green 

 rivers ; very abundant in clear brooks and pools ; one of the most gaudy 

 of darters, (rufus, reddish ; lineat-ua, lined ; properly spelled rufolineatum. ) 



PaecUichthys ntfilineahu, COPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1870, 267, Warm Springs Creek, 

 French Broad River, Madison County, North Carolina. (Coll. Cope.) 



Notkonotus rufilineatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 508, 1883. 



Etheostoma rufolineatum, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vm, 1888 (1890), 149; BOULENOEB, Cat., 

 1,69. 



1468. ETHEOSTOMA JOBDANI, Gilbert. 



Head 3i to 3f ; depth 4f to 5. D. X or XI-10 to 12 ; A. I, 7 or 8 ; scales 

 43 to 55 (averaging 48). Closely related to Etheostoma rufilineatum, from 

 which it differs conspicuously in form and coloration. Body rather deep, 

 compressed, the caudal peduncle slenderer than in related forms, the 

 anterior profile much more convexly decurved, the snout blunter. Mouth 



