1868.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 351 DESCRIPTIONS OF FOURTEEN SPECIES OF FRESH-WATER FISHES COLLECTED BY THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION IN THE SUMMER OF 1888. BY DAVID STARR JORDAN. (With Plates xliii— xlv. ) A large part of the summer of 1888 was spent by the writer iu the exploration of the streams of Virginia and North Carolina, under the auspices of the IT. S. Fish Commission. In this work I had the efficient assistance of Prof. Oliver P. Jenkins, of De Pauw University, Green-castle, Ind. ; Barton W. Evermann, of the State Normal School, Terre Haute, Ind. ; and Seth E. Meek, of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The basins of the Shenandoah, James, Roanoke, Kanawha, Holston, French Broad, Catawba, Yadkin, Cape Fear, Neuse, Tar, and Black water Rivers were more or less fully explored, and upwards of 7,000 specimens, mostly of small fishes, were secured. Among the species obtained fourteen appear to be certainly new to science. Types of each of these species have been sent to the U. S. Na-tional Museum. These species are described in advance of the general report by permission of Col. Marshall McDonald, U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. The uew species described are the following : 1. Xoturusfuriosus Jordan & Meek. 2. Noturus gilberti Jordan & Evermann. 3. Moxostoma rupiscartes Jordan & Jenkins. 4. Xotropis {Luxilus) macdonaldi Jordan & Jenkius. 5. Notropis kanaicha Jordan & Jenkins. 6. Hybopsis icatauga Jordan & Evermann. 7. Fundulus (Xenisma) rathbuni Jordan & Meek. 8. Chologaster avitus Jordan & Jenkins. 9. Etheostoma (Percina) rex Jordan & Evermann. 10. Etheostoma (Radropterus) roanoTca Jordan & Jenkins. 11. Etheostoma (Boleosoma) podostemone Jordan & Jenkins. 12. Etheostoma ( Ulocentra) verecundum Jordan & Evermann. 13. Etheostoma (Xanostoma) swannanoa Jordan & Evermann. I have also added (II) a redescription of Etheostoma longimane, and (15) a description of a new species from Mexico, Etheostoma australe. 1. Noturus furiosus Jordan & Meek, sp. nov. (Type No. 39932, U. S. Nat. Mus.) Closely allied to Noturus miuius. Head, 3f in length ; depth, 5£ ; width of head, 4£. D. 1, 6. A. 14. Length of largest specimen, 3i inches. Body moderately elongate, about as in X. miurus. Head broad, de-depressed, flat between the eyes. Eyes moderate, 1£ iu interorbital
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