44Q 



Cope] -riu [June t, 



the gun-fislierman, concealed in a tree close by, makes sure of him. It is 

 the most valued food-fish of the French Broad, the flesh being very tender 

 as well as rich. 



Without the opercular armature of the Percae, its chief defence is in 

 its numerous and powerful canine teeth, with which it makes serious 

 wounds on the hands of the unwary fisherman. The common name on the 

 French Broad is "Jack." 



4. Stizostedium salmoneum, Raf. 



This fine species was described to me as an inhabitant of the French 

 Broad, though I did not see it. As elsewhere, it is called Salmon. A 

 species of this genus occurs also in the Neuse. 



ETHEOSTOMA, Raf. 



5. Etheostoma nevisekse, Cope. 

 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1870, p. 261. 

 Turbulent waters of the Neuse River. 



6. Etheostoma maculatum, Girard. 



Putnam Brll. Mus. Comp. ZooL, Cambridge, No. I. Cope. Proc. Am. 

 Phil. Soc, 1870, 262. Hadropterus maculatus, Girard. Proc. A. IST. S , 

 Phil., 1859, 100. 



Abundant in the rapid waters of Buck Creek, which empties into the Ca- 

 tawba, in Marion Co., N. Ca. 



HYPOHOMUS, Cope. 



Cottogaster, Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 18G9, 210, not of 

 Putnam. 



The name Cottogaster, my friend Prof. Putnam informs me, was ap- 

 jilied to species of the type of Boleosoma. It is, therefore, inapplicable 

 to the C. aurantiaeus, to which I apply the above generic name. The 

 characters of the genus have been pointed out as above cited. They are 

 those of Etheostoma, excepting the median ventral series of shields, which 

 are here wanting. 



7. Htpohomus atjrantiactjs. Cope. 



Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1868, 211. 



One specimen from the French Broad River, in Madison Co., North 

 Carolina, measuring 4 inches 8 lines in length, more than twice the size 

 of the types, and larger than any species of the Etheostomine group, ex- 

 cepting Percina caprodes. Color in life bright yellow, with a black lateral 

 baud, and a few brown spots on each side of the dorsal fin. 



POECILICTHYS, Agass. 

 8. Poecilichthys vitreus, Cope. 

 Proceed. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 253. 

 This species is quite translucent in life. The only specimen taken was 



