Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1087 



'oKionia htteovinctum, GILBERT & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, 58, Stone River, near 

 Nashville, Tennessee, (Coll. Gilbert & Swain); BOULENGER, Cat., i, 73. 



1476. ETHEOSTOMA LEPIDOGENTS, Evermann & Kendall. 



Head (including opercular flap) 4; depth 5; eye 4 in head ; snout 4. 

 D. X-12; A. II, 7 or 8: scales 7-54 to 61-9; lateral line straight and 

 incomplete, 32 to 38 pores. Body moderately stout, head heavy, snout 

 short, blunt, and decurved, back little elevated, caudal peduncle deep, 

 its least depth 2 in head. Mouth rather small, but little oblique, lower 

 jaw slightly included; premaxillary just reaching front of orbit, not 

 protractile. Gill membranes scarcely united. Fins moderate; soft dor- 

 sal higher than spinous portion ; pectoral short, only as long as head, 

 not reaching beyond tips of ventrals ; ventrals short, distance from their 

 tips to origin of anal equaling half length of head ; anal rather small, 

 scarcely reaching tips of soft dorsal when depressed. Scales strongly 

 ctenoid ; cheeks densely scaled ; opercles and breast entirely naked ; 

 nape scaled ; median line of belly with ordinary scales, not deciduous. 

 In the larger specimen, which is 2 inches long, there are on the right side 

 57 scales in a longitudinal series, upon 38 of which pores are developed, 

 while upon the left side there are but 54 scales, upon 35 of which pores 

 are developed. The second specimen, If inches long, has 61 scales upon 

 the right side, with pores in 38 of them, and 55 upon the left, with only 

 35 developed pores. This shows a considerable variation, not only among 

 individuals, but between the 2 sides of the same individual. Color in 

 alcohol : Head dark above, sides pale, a dark line forward from eye to 

 tip of snout and another broader one straight downward from the eye, 

 broadest at lower end ; a dark postocular spot followed by a fainter one 

 on the opercle ; dark humeral scale present ; side of body with about 13 

 dark vertical bars, the first crossing over the back just in front of the 

 spinous dorsal, the next 4 indistinct, except on back, where they widen 

 into large blotches, the sixth crossing the back between the 2 dorsals; 

 the seventh to tenth, inclusive, under the soft dorsal ; the eleventh 

 crosses just back of it, while the thirteenth is at the base of the caudal 

 fin ; spinous dorsal pale at base, next a broad dark band, then a narrow 

 pale one, which is followed by a pale blue one (probably blue in life and) 

 lastly, tipped with a very narrow margin of white; soft dorsal marbled 

 or vermiculated with brown, the largest, plainest markings being at 

 about the distance from the tips of the fin ; caudal like the soft dorsal, 

 but the colors deeper; all the other fins unmarked. Lergth 2 inches. 

 Rio Comal, Texas. Only the types known. (Aenig, scale; yevuf, cheek.) 



Etlieostoma lepidogenys, EVERMANN & KENDALL, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., xii, 1892 (Feb. 6, 1894), 

 114, pi. xxxv, fig. 3, Rio Comal, New Braunfels, Texas, (Type, No. 44840. Coll. Ever- 

 mann, Scovell, and Gurley); BOULENQER, Cat., i, 72. 



