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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
ing to yellow behind ; orange on front of pectoral ; a round yellow spot above each 
interspace in lateral band ; a row of small brown spots on each side of back ; nape 
with orange; gill membranes sei>arate; belly evenly covered with fine scales like 
those on sides ; scales firm and even, 101 in lateral line ; cheeks, opercles, and nape 
finely and closely scaled ; head bluntish, the mouth rather large ; the eye median. 
35. Etheostoma simoterum (Cope). B.. S., M. 
Very abundant in cold, clear waters, but not found in the larger streams. Excess- 
ively common about Holstein Mills, the larger specimens beautifully colored. In life, 
pale green, the dark markings dark green ; various scales on the back bronze-red 
in the center, the neighboring scales light yellow, the bronze markings forming very 
irregular streaks ; belly pale yellow, more or less flushed with bright orange ; spinous 
dorsal pale at base, then a black streak, then pale, each membrane with an orange 
spot throughout the pale streak, the first two spots of a brilliant scarlet; edge of the 
fin snuffy-brown ; soft dorsal with the rays pale yellowish, the membranes spotted 
with bronze-brown, a black spot at base of each ray ; caudal yellowish, with three 
wavy black bars ; anal and ventrals pale yellowish ; pectoral yellowish, faintly barred ; 
head with various green markings ; scales 51 ; breast naked, or partly scaly. 
36. Etheostoma swannanoa Jordan & Jenkins. M., S. 
Two large specimens of this beautiful species taken at Marion and two at Hol- 
stein Mills. It is evidently a species of the cold, clear waters, as it was found rather 
abundant in the Swannanoa Eiver, near its source. 
37. Etheostoma zonale (Cope). B., G., N. 
This species seems to be irregularly distributed, perhaps most abundant in the 
river channels, where the water is neither cold nor clear. The species seems to be 
very variable in coloration as well as in squamatiou. The specimens from Saltville are 
nearly typical; green, with about eight conspicuous cross-bars of grass-green (fainter 
in female); a brownish-red baud across first dorsal (wanting in female); ventrals and 
pectorals in both sexes creamy orange, barred with green ; other fins yellowish, barred 
with darker; throat naked in some, partly scaly in others; scales 6-49-9 (erroneously 
given as 11-50-12 in Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis). 
In the single specimen from Glade Spring the markings are very much sharper, 
the spots well defined, and the dark cross-bars much narrower and more definite, about 
twelve in number, narrower than interspaces; coloration otherwise similar; scales 50; 
a few on upper part of cheek only. 
In several examples from Beaver Creek the coloration is that of the specimen 
from Glade Spring ; the opercles are scaly, but the cheeks are naked ; the scales are, 
however, much smaller, 7-60-8 (59-60-61 in three examples). 
The specimens taken in the French Broad and its tributaries agree essentially 
with those from Saltville. 
38. Etheostoma verecundum Jordau & Jenkins. G. 
The single type of this species was taken at Glade Spring. 
39. Etheostoma blennioides (Kafinesque.) G., N., D. 
Not rare in the larger streams. Scales 76. 
