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Diagnosis (North Carolina specimens).— Depth contamed 5.3 times in length; head 

 heavy, coirtained 4.3 times in length; eye large, contained 3.6 times in head; maxiUary extend- 

 ing to front of eye; lower jaw included; throat, cheeks, and neck above without scales; opercles 

 scaly; scales in lateral series 52 to 65, in transverse seies 9 + 9 to 9 + 11; dorsal rays xi+10; 

 anal rays n,8 or n,9. Color: Male— olive green, with 8 deep blue-green cross-bars; an orange- 

 brown lateral band forming brownish spaces between the^eross-bars; belly, breast, throat, 

 lower jaw, cheeks, opercles and snout orange or orange yellow; a blue-black bar posterior to 

 eye, a golden crescent anterior to this; spinous dorsal rusty orange, last rays black; soft dorsal 

 orange at base and speckled; caudal yellow, with 2 orange spots at base and several dark cross- 

 bars; pectorals and anal yellow, with faint bars. Female— the orange color of male replaced 

 by pale yellow, the markings on side black, dorsal membranes orange at tip and base, {evides, 

 handsome.) 



Fig. 111. Dakteh. Hadropteriis evides. 



This very brilliantly colored species inhabits the Mississippi basin , and ranges 

 from North Carolina to Indiana, and from Arkansas to Iowa. In North Carolina 

 it is abundant in the French Broad and Swannanoa. Length, 3 inches. 



217. HADBOPTEBUS PELTATUS (Staufier). 

 Shielded Darter. 



Etheoetoma peltatum Stauffer Ms., in Cope, Proceedings Academy of Natural Sciences of Piiiladelphia, 1864, 

 233; Conestoga Creek, Pa. Jordan, 1889b, 126, 130, 133, 134, 139; Tar, Neuse, Cape Fear, Yadkin and 

 Catawba rivers and various tributaries. Evermann & Cox, 1896, 305; Neuse River. 



Etheoetoma neviaense Cope, 1870a, 261; Neuse River near Raleigh. Cope, 18706, 449: "turbulent waters 

 of Neuse". 



Etheostoma maculatum, Cope, 18706, 449; Buck Creek, tributary of Catawba. 



Alvardiits crassus, Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 368; Neuse River at Goldsboro. 



Hadropterus peUatits, Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 1034. 



Diagnosis. — Body^ cylindrical, compressed posteriorly, depth contained 5.6 times in 

 length; head rather large'^, .25 length; maxillary extending slightly beyond anterior margin of 

 eye; lower jaw slightly included; eye .25 length of head, equal to blunt snout; scales in lateral 

 series 52 to 66, in transverse series 6 + 9; scales on head as stated in key; fins comparatively 

 small; dorsal rays xiii + 12; anal rays ii,10; caudal slightly concave behind; pectorals shorter 

 than head, extending barely as far backwards as ventral. Color: pale yellow with black 

 markings; cross blotches on back and irregular lengthwise lines above lateral line; 6 large 

 quadrangular spots on sides, with faint bars intervening, the whole sometimes merged into a 

 lateral bar; top of head, a bar below eye, snout, opercle, and axillary band all black; anterior 

 dorsal with black median band and black spots on edge; posterior dorsal and caudal faintly 

 barred; pectorals and ventrals dusky; female paler. {peUatus, shielded.) 



