Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 3167 



line; spinous dorsal ashy, the first 3 spines black on the middle portion, 

 the other spines dark, but not so distinctly so; tips of last few spines 

 dark; soft dorsal light brownish or grayish, crossed near the base by a 

 series of dark spots and above by 2 series of whitish spots; caudal spotted 

 with white and brown; anal white, dusted with brownish; ventrals whit- 

 ish, with tine, dark dustings; pectoral whitish, yellowish at base, fol- 

 lowed by alternating series of dusky and whitish spots. 



This species is related to H. scierus, from which it diners chiefly in hav- 

 ing the dorsal tins united, in having the maxillary reaching beyond front 

 of orbit, in the larger scales, the free gill-inerabranes, and in the smooth 

 preoperele. 



Only the type known, an example, 3.5 inches long, taken in Aubeenau- 

 bee Creek, the eastern inlet of Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana, about mile 

 from the lake, August 4, 1899. Type No. 49378, U. S. N. M. Coll. Ever- 

 mann & Scovell. 



Hadropterus maxinkuckiennis, EVERMANN, Kept. IT. S. Fish Com. 1899 (1900), 366, with plat.-, 

 Aubeenaubee Creek, Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana. 



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ETHEOSTOMA AUBEEXAUBEI, Evermann. 



Head 3. 6; depth 5. 5; eye 4. 5; snout 4. 5; maxillary 3; interorbita!5; D. 

 X-10; A. II, 7; scales 4-55 to 58-7, 8 to 24 pores. 



Body rather elongate, not much compressed except posteriorly; head 

 rather short: snout short, somewhat decurved; mouth moderate, slightly 

 oblique, lower jaw included, maxillary reaching front of eye; eye small, 

 above axis of body; preinaxillaries not protractile; gill-membranes free 

 from the isthmus aud each other. Fins not large, the dorsals usually dis- 

 tinctly, but narrowly separated, sometimes scarcely separate; origin of 

 spinous dorsal one-third distance from tip of snout to base of caudal; 

 outline of spinous dorsal gently rounded, the longest spine about 3 in 

 head ; longest dorsal ray about 2 ; first anal spine longer, and slightly 

 stronger than second, 3 to 3.5 in head; longest anal ray about 2; pectoral 

 short, about 1.3 in head; veutrals close together, about 2 in head; caudal 

 rounded, 1.5 in head. Scales rather small, rough-ctenoid; lateral line 

 incomplete, usually developed on only 8 to 24 scales at anterior end; cheek 

 usually naked or with a few small, more or less embedded scales; opercle 

 usually about half scaled, sometimes with but few scales; breast always 

 naked; belly with ordinary scales; nape usually densely and regularly 

 scaled, some scales sometimes embedded; preopercle entire; opercular 

 flap moderate, broad ; opercular spine rather small ; no humeral spot or 

 process. 



Color in alcohol, greenish brown above; side with about 12 or 13 verti- 

 cal, dark blotches, separated by pale orange red areas of similar size; 

 another series of similar but smaller orange blotches along lowe'r part of 

 side anterior to anal fin; under parts whitish; caudal peduncle grayish; 

 head dark above; opercle and cheek dark, with greenish shade; a dark 

 line down ward from eye; snout grayish; spinous dorsal with a narrow 

 dark border, below which is abroad orange band, then a broad but irregu- 



