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;&.-' Tail 20 rays, with many small transversa} lines. VentmeC 

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



25th Species. Common Hogfish. Etheostoma cajirodet. 

 JEtheostome capros. 



Body quite cylindrical, whitish, with about twenty transverse 

 bands, alternately shorter. Head elongate obtuse, upper y*xr 

 •longer, rounded; opereule angular, spine acute: lateral line 

 quite .straight; diameter one eighth of the length: tail forked, 

 olivaceous, brown at the base, and with a black dot. Yent an- 



The most common species, found in the Ohio, Cumberland, 

 !\Vabash, Tennessee, Green Rive -, Kentucky, Licking, Miami, 

 Sec.; called almost every where Hog-fish. Length from two 

 to six inches. Scales rough upwards, hardly ciliate. Mouth 

 beneath, 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 silvery, above fulvous; prcopereule 

 simple arched. Branchial rays half visible. Fins hya'inous: 

 dorsal 15 and 12, ending before the anal, which is very distant 

 from the tail, rays 2 and 10. Pectoral fins trapezoidal 16, 

 Tail 24. 



"SECOND PART. ABDOMINAL FISHES. 



Having complete gills, with a gill rover and a branchial 

 membrane. Lower or ventral fins situated on the belly or abdo- 

 men, behind the pectoral or lateral fins. 



Xj- Genus. Goldshad. Pomolobus. Pomolobc. 



Body nearly cylindrical, elongate, scaly. Vent posterior. 

 Abdomen carinated and serrated from the head to the vent; but 

 without plaits or broad scales. Head scaleless, opereule Iobed, 

 with a rounded shield above. Jaws without teeth, upper trun- 

 cate extensible, lower horizontal and fixed. Abdominal fins 

 with nine rays and without lateral appendage: dorsal fin oppo- 

 site. 



put of eight species of fishes, similar to the Herrings and 

 Shads, which have already been observed in the Ohio; after an 

 attentive study, I have ascertained that not a single one is a real 

 Jlerring, nor belongs to the genus Clu/iea, and I have been 

 pelled to form four new genera with them; which afford 

 *Sff: 5 hc P rcs «n! «*■£§£» ft?m the real gc : 



