1870.] 449 Cope. 
the gun-fisherman, 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 NEVISENSE, Cope. 
Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1870, p. 261. 
Turbulent waters of the Neuse River. 
6. ETHEOSTOMA MACULATUM, Girard. 
Putnam Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, No. 1. Cope. Proc. Am. 
Phil. Soc., 1870, 262. Hadropterus maculatus, Girard. Proc. A. N. 8., 
Phil., 1859, 100. ; 
Abundant in the rapid waters of Buck Creek, which empties into the Ca- 
tawhba, in Marion Co., N. Ca. 
HYPOHOMUS, Cope. 
Cottogaster, Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 1869, 210, not of 
Putnam. 
The name Cottogaster, my friend Prof. Putnam informs me, was ap- 
plied to species of the type of Boleosoma. It is, therefore, inapplicable 
to the C. aurantiacus, 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. 
%. HypoHOMUS AURANTIACUS, 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 
band, and a few brown spots on each side of the dorsal fin. 
POECILICTHYS, Agass. 
8. PoECcILICHTHYS VITREUS, Cope. 
Proceed. Am. Phil. Soc., 1870, 2538. 
This species is quite translucent in life. The only specimen taken was 
