FISHES OF NEW YORK 521 



This little darter is recorded from Massachusetts to New 

 Jersey and will doubtless be found in New York. It grows to 

 the length of 2 inches. 



258 Boleichthys fusiformis eos Jordan & Copeland 



Boleiclitliys eos Jordan & Copeland, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 46, 1877, 

 Rock River, Wisconsin; Wisconsin River, Wisconsin; Fox River, 

 Illinois. 



Poecilichthys eos Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 520, 1883. 



Boleichthys fusiformis eos Jordan and Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 1102, 1896. 



Body elongate, slender, somewhat compressed, specially 

 behind, rather heavy forward, with very long and slender caudal 

 peduncle; head long, rounded in front; mouth small, little 

 oblique, the upper jaw a very little the longer; dorsal fins high, 

 about equal; caudal truncate; cheeks, opercles, and neck closely 

 scaled; breast naked, or with a median series of small scales; 

 lateral line developed on 22 to 26 scales. Head one fourth of 

 total length without caudal; depth re. D. IX-11; A. II, 7; 

 lateral line 58. 



Color dark olive, with darker markings; 10 or 12 dark dorsal 

 spots or bars, and as many short dark blue bars across the 

 lateral line nearly opposite the dorsal bars, but not continuous 

 with them; the interspaces between these bars, as well as most 

 of the ventral region, bright crimson in the males, nearly plain 

 in the females ; lower parts of the sides, cheeks, etc. with various 

 sharply defined but irregular black markings; second dorsal, 

 caudal, and pectorals strongly marked with wavy bands; first 

 dorsal bright blue in the males, with a broad median band of 

 crimson, speckled in the females; top of head dark; black streaks 

 downward and forward from eye. 



The describers of the species recorded its distribution from 

 Indiana to Minnesota; abundant in clear cold streams. It grows 

 to the length of 2-J inches, and is one of the prettiest of the 

 darters. Specimens were obtained for the XJ. S. Eish Oommission 

 in Mud creek. Cape Vincent N. Y. June 25, the species being 

 abundant there, at Grenadier island, June 27, and in Guffon 

 creek, Chaumont N. Y. July 7. 



