Jordan and JSvermatm. fishes of North America. 1093 



blunt. Mouth rather large, terminal, maxillary reaching vertical from 

 pupil; premaxillaries not protractile; lips thick; gill membranes not 

 connected. Cheeks, opercles, and breast naked, nape scaled ; lateral line 

 imperfect, developed on only about 12 scales. Color of male: Belly bright 

 red, extending on sides to upper rays of pectoral fins; above the red is a 

 yellowish band on the sides about as wide as diameter of eye ; upper 

 part of the body olivaceous, with darker markings, each scale being pro- 

 vided with a dark spot, these making faint lateral streaks along the rows 

 of scales; about 9 dark blotches on the side, resembling faint bars; 

 caudal and soft dorsal barred; pectorals faintly barred; anal and ven- 

 trals plain ; a dark humeral scale. The female has the under part whit- 

 ish, the sides olivaceous, much mottled with darker; otherwise as in the 

 male. Length 2 inches. Only the types known, 2 specimens, taken in 

 the spring branch on the United States Fish Hatchery grounds at Neo- 

 sho, Missouri, tributary to Neoaho River, Arkansas Basin. (Meek.) 

 (Named for William F. Page, Superintendent of the United States Fish 

 Hatchery at Neosho, Missouri.) 



Etheostoma pagei, MEEK, American Naturalist, 1894, 957, Neosho, Missouri, (Type, No. 45566. 

 Coll. Meek); BOULENGER, Cat., i. 79; EVERMANN & KENDALL, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xiv, 

 1894 (1895), 472. 



1484. ETHEOSTOMA YIRGATUM (Jordan). 



Head 3| ; depth 5. D. TX-10; A. II, 8. Body slender, subfusiform, 

 compressed, the back somewhat elevated, the caudal peduncle rather 

 deep. Head long, rather slender and pointed, little compressed, the 

 snout but little decurved. Mouth rather large, somewhat oblique, the 

 maxillary reaching to the pupil, the lower jaw scarcely shorter than the 

 upper; teeth small, even, in several rows. Eye rather large. Posterior 

 border of preopercle obtusely crenate above. Scales rather large; 

 lateral line distinct, on about 20 scales ; 53 in a lengthwise series. Head 

 naked; nape and breast naked. Color greenish, each scale with a small 

 blackish spot, forming conspicuous lateral stripes, as in Etheostoma flabel- 

 lare lineolatum; back and sides withcross blotches; humeral scale large 

 and black ; dorsal and caudal fins faintly barred. Rock Castle River and 

 Round Stone River, tributaries of Cumberland River, in Rock Castle and 

 Laurel counties, Kentucky; not common; a pretty little fish, (virgatus, 

 streaked.) 



Ptecilichthtjs virgatus, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 236, Rock Castle River, Living- 

 ston, Kentucky, (Type, No. 23456. Coll. Jordan); JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 515, 1883. 

 Etheostoma rirgalum, BOULENGER, Cat., i, 77. 



Subgenus CLARICOLA, Jordan & Evermaun. 

 1485. ETHEOSTOMA JULIJE, Meek. 



Head 4 ; depth 4 to 4. Eye 4i. D. XI-11 or 12 ; A. II, 7 or 8 ; scales 8-58 

 to 60-8. Lateral line incomplete; cheek and breast naked, opercles with 

 few scales on upper part. Ventral region scaled, like the sides. Gill 

 membranes broadly united across the isthmus. Teeth on vomer. Body 



