KEPORT UPON THE RIVERS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA. 
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13. Elassoma evergladei Jordan. (P, M.) Two very fine specimens were taken in Pemberton Creek, 
whicli differ in several particulars from the types of this species.* Total length of speci- 
mens, 25 and 27 ; length to caudal fin, 221, 23; greatest height of body, 6, 7 ; depth of caudal 
peduncle, 3 — , 3; length of head 6-j-, 7; interorbital area, 2 — , 2 — ; eye, 2, 2; distance from 
tip of snout to front of dorsal, 10 — , 10; number of dorsal spines and rays, III-8, III-8; 
length of base of dorsal, 7 — , 7 ; longest dorsal spine, 3 — , 3; longest dorsal ray, 5 — ,5; anal, 
IV-5, IV-5 ; ventrals reaching to anal ; number of scales, 28, 28. Ground color, very dark 
brown, nearly black, with three crossbars behind dorsal, between which there is a dark 
metallic blue ; spot on opercle of a dull carmine color ; two small spots of the same color at 
base of caudal; spots of blue on other parts of the body, notably along the lateral line; fins 
dark; upper half of dorsal, black; two lighter spots on the last rays of dorsal. (See Plate 
liii, Fig. 4.) 
Several specimens were obtained in Mill Creek which correspond more closely with the 
originals. The measurements of three of these are as follows : Length, 25, 25, 23 ; length to 
base of caudal, 21, 21, 19; greatest depth, 6, 7, 5; depth of caudal peduncle, 3, 3, 3 — ; length 
of head, 6,6-)-, 6 — ; eye, L}, 1-J-, 1-J; distance from end of snout to origin of dorsal, 9, 9£, 
8; dorsal rays, IV-8, IV-9, IV-9; anal rays, III-5, III-5, III-5; number of scales, 27, 28, 27. 
Ground color dark brown, thickly covered with darker spots having no definite arrange- 
ment; a few deep lustrous blue scales on body; dorsal dark, showing in some specimens a 
double row of dark-red spots, forming two stripes parallel with the edge of the fin. There 
seems to be some variation in the size of the eye and the width of the interorbital space. 
14. Etheostoma quiescens Jordan. (P, M. j Common only in Mill Creek. These specimens were 
much lighter than specimens of the same species taken in other localities. Eight cross- 
bars pass over the back from the lateral line on one side to that on the other; a row of 
irregular spots below the lateral line; light spot on cheek, with irregular black spots 
around it; lower lip with a narrow black line on edge. Length, 47, 47, 47, 43, 43, 42, 57 milli- 
meters; head, 9,9,9,8,8,8—11; depth, 11, 11, 11, 10—, 10—, 10, 104; lateral line, 52, 52, 51, 
52, 50, 52, 52 ; pores, 28, 24, 27, 25, 24, 22, 22 ; head full-scaled, with small rough scales. 
(See Plate liii, Fig. 3.) 
WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER. 
The Withlacoochee River drains a large number of lakes and low prairies in Lake 
County and the eastern part of Polk County. It flows in a general northwesterly 
direction a distance of 75 or 80 miles, and empties into the Gulf of Mexico about 20 
miles south of Cedar Keys. Its headwaters were examined in three places. Three 
miles east of Richland the river turns nearly at right angles, changing its course 
from a southwest to a northwest direction ; here it is about 10 yards in width, with 
steep banks and a swift current. The water is clear, although appearing somewhat 
dark, and flows over a sandy bottom. The stream at this place is almost devoid of 
vegetation; no crustaceans or mollusks were taken, and but few Ashes. The stream 
was seined December 31, 1890, the water temperature being 50° F. 
The Little Withlacoochee River was fished January 1, 1891, about 2 miles north 
of the station of Withlacoochee, at the crossing of the Florida Central and Peninsula 
Railroad. The stream at this place flows in several channels through a dense cypress 
swamp. The main channel is 20 feet wide, and too deep for seining. The stream was 
full of cypress trees and cypress knees; several species of algrn were noticed, and 
clinging to the logs and roots were large, brown, gelatinous-appearing masses. The 
surface of the country is somewhat rolling, and large ledges of coral limestone were 
jutting from the surface, the remains of an old coral reef. Water temperature, 48° F. 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 323. 
