Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1089 



a erythrogastnim, KIRTLAND, Cleveland Annals Science, 1864, 4, near Cleveland, 



Ohio. (Type, No. 121 8. Coll. Kirtland.) 

 /'(.<//<(/,%.<! versicolor, AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1854, 304, Quincy, Illinois. (Coll. 



Dr. L. Watson.) 



r<i-<-Hns<>i,tti transversum, ABBOTT, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 826, Lake Superior. 

 Axtalichthi/s i-tiriileii*, YAILLANT, Recherches, 107, 1873. 

 /''< ///<///////* cwruleus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 517, 1883. 

 Etheostoma cceruleum, MEEK, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1891, 119, 131, 155; BOULENOER, Cat., 



i, 71. 



Gradually passing from Indiana westward into the slight variety 

 147 7a. ETHEOSTOMA C<ERULEUM SPECTABILE (Agassiz). 



Head 4; depth 4|. D. X-12; A. II, 7; scales 5-40-7; lateral line ou 

 20-25 scales. Very similar to cceruleum, but more elongate and rather 

 more compressed ; the colors similar, but the upper portion of the sides 

 with distinct blackish stripes along the rows of the scales, and the 

 ground color of the back and sides having a peculiar whitish or bleached 

 appearance. The two dorsal fins usually well separated. Scales usually 

 present below and behind eye. Length 2 to 3 inches. Mississippi Valley ; 

 rather less abundant than the other and ascending small or even muddy 

 streams ; not always to be distinguished with certainty from the pre- 

 ceding. Both occur in Indiana and Illinois, but the form called spectabile 

 is the only one seen in streams of Missouri, (spectabilis, conspicuous.) 



Pcccilichthys spectabilis, AGASSIZ, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1854,304, Osage River, Missouri, 

 (Coll. Geo. Stolley); JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 518, 1883. 



1478. ETHEOSTOMA LEPIDUM (Baird & Girard). 



Head 4i; depth 4f. D. IX-11 to 13 ; A. II, 6 to 8 ; scales 6-48 to 54-8, 

 pores 27 to 36. Body rather stout, compressed, tapering backward. 

 Head subconical. Mouth moderate, with equal jaws ; maxillary reaching 

 front of orbit. Eyes large. First dorsal rather low; dorsal fins some- 

 what connected. Head, as well as throat and neck, entirely scaleless. 

 Color olivaceous, with some dark-blue bars; scales dusky at base, some- 

 times a slight trace of a humeral spot ; dorsals and caudal mottled or 

 barred. Length 2 inches. Streams of Arkansas, Texas, and Chihuahua 

 common ; apparently gradually passing into Etheostoma cceruleum, from 

 which only the naked head separates it. Gilbert regards it as a sub- 

 species of cwruleum. (lepidus, pretty.) 



Boleozoma lepida, BAIRD & GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 388, upper tributaries of 

 the Rio Nueces. (Coll. Clark.) 



Oligocephaltis grahami, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 102, Devil River, Texas. 

 D. IX-13; A. II, 7. (Coll. Clark.) 



Oligocephalusleonemis, GIRARD, I c., 102, Leon River, Texas. D. IX-10; A. II, 7. (Coll. Clark.) 



Oligocephahis pulchellus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 102, Gypsum Creek, a trib- 

 utary to the Canadian River; A. II, 6. (Coll. Lieut. Whipple.) 



Boleosoma lepidum, VAILLANT, Recherches, 90, 1873. 



Pcecilichthya lepidut, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 517, 1883. 



Etheostoma lepidum, EVERMANN & KENDALL, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xn, 1892 (1894), 114; 



BOTTLENQER, Cat., T, 73. 



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