ICHTHYOLOGIA OHIENSIS 



and spots of many Blennies. Length two or three 

 inches, and slender. Seen in the Ohio, Wabash, 

 Muskingum, &c. Colour pale, sometimes fulvous, 

 whitish beneath. Cheeks swelled and smooth, pre- 

 opercule simple arched, opercule quite angular : iris 

 large and blackish : scales roughened by the ciliation. 

 Dorsal fin 13 and 13, beginning above the middle of 

 the pectorals and ending with the anal, one faint 

 longitudinal brown stripe on [jS] it. Tail 20 rays, 

 with many small transversal lines. Vent medial. 

 Anal fin 2 and 8. Pectoral fins 16, oblong acute. 



[II. 170] 25th Species. Common Hogfish. Etheos- 

 toma caprodes. Etheostome capros. 



Body quite cylindrical, whitish, with about twenty 

 transverse bands, alternately shorter. Head elongate 

 obtuse, upper jaw longer, rounded; opercule angu- 

 lar, spine acute : lateral line quite straight : diameter 

 one eighth of the length: tail forked, olivaceous, 

 brown at the base, and with a black dot. Vent ante- 

 rior. 



The most common species, found in the Ohio, 

 Cumberland, Wabash, Tennessee, Green River, Ken- 

 tucky, Licking, Miami, &c. ; called almost every 

 where Hog-fish. Length from two to six inches. 

 Scales rough upwards, hardly ciliate. Mouth be- 

 neath, small; upper jaw protruding like a hog's 

 snout, the nostrils being on it. Eyes above the eyes, 

 jutting, black, iris silvery. Sides of the head sil- 

 very, above fulvous; preopercule simple arched. 

 Branchial rays half visible. Fins hyalinous : dorsal 

 15 and 12, ending before the anal, which is very dis- 

 tant from the tail, rays 2 and 10. Pectoral fins trape- 

 zoidal 16. Tail 24. 



