84. CENTRARCHID^E LEPOMIS. 475 



7JO. L. iiiacrocliirus Eaf. 



Bright steel-blue, with many bronze orange spots, which cover nearly 

 the whole surface, so arranged that the ground color forms a series of 

 vertical chain-like bars, very conspicuous in life ; vertical fins mottled 

 with bronze and usually more or less edged with pale orange ; sometimes 







a faint black dorsal spot; no distinct blue stripes on cheek, but the 

 sides of the head shaded with purplish. Opercular flap small, black, 

 margined with pale. Body rather elongate, the head somewhat acute. 

 Pectoral fins reaching beyond ventrals to anal. Gill-rakers rather long 

 and slender, strongly toothed, 11 developed. Supplemental bone minute. 

 About 7 rows of scales on cheeks. Head 3; depth 2. D. X, 12; A. 

 Ill, 10; scales about C-42-15. L. 5 inches. Ohio Valley; a small, 

 handsome species. 



(Eaf. Journ. de Physique 1819, 420; Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 239: Lepomis nephelus 

 Cope, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18G8, 222.) 



741. L,. mystacalas Cope. 



Body deep, compressed. Eye large, 3J in head. Dorsal spines 

 robust, little shorter than the soft rays; paired fins long; maxillary 

 extending somewhat beyond front of orbit;- four rows of scales on 

 cheeks; opercular spot short without border. Gill-rakers slender. 

 Dusky, sides silvery, with irregular, short, dark vertical bars ; a pale 

 baud from mouth across preopercle, a dark line below this, then a silvery 

 band; lower parts and most of vertical fins yellow. Head 3; depth 

 2. D. X, 12 ; A. Ill, 12; scales 7-51-15. East Florida. (Cope.) 



(Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 18', 7, 66.) 



742. L,. eSoBigataas (Holbr.) Gill & Jor. 



Body rather elongate, compressed. Front steep. Caudal peduncle 

 long. Maxillary extending to front of eye. Eye large, 3 in head. 

 Scales on cheek in 6 rows. Opercular flap moderate. Fins high, the 

 longest dorsal fin as long as snout and eye. Dusky above, yellowish 

 below, with faint dark vertical bars on the sides, and a dark blotch on 

 the tail behind the dorsal fin; cheeks with pale bluish lines; fins plain. 

 Head 2; depth 2. D. X, 11; A. HI, 9. L. 4 inches. South Carolina 

 to Florida. (Holbroolc.) 



(Pomotis elongatns Holbr. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 47: Pomotis elongatus 

 Giiuther, i, 2(52: ? Lepomis ophthalmwiis Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1838, 224.) 



743. L. (MBJB'asaos (Grd.) McKay. 



Body elongate, somewhat compressed, the form precisely as in L. cya- 

 neUus. Moiith rather large; maxillary about reaching front of eye; 



