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quently under the shelter of the streamers of jellyfishes, 

 they are sometimes destroyed by the lasso cells of their host. 



The Imrvestfish is present in Gravesend bay from April to 

 November. Adults wen- taken at Souihatnpton Ix-aHi Aug. 1 

 and Aug. 3, 1898. The fish was not found in Great Sonlli bay 

 during the summer and fall of 1898. 



Group PERCOIDEA 



Perch-like Fishes 

 Family CENTI>JAI?CHID.XE 



Sunfishes 



Genus POMOXYS Rafinesque 



Body more or less elongate, strongly compressed, the snout 

 projecting; mouth large, oblique; maxillary broad, with a well 

 developed supplemental bone; teeth on vorner, palatines, ento- 

 pterygoids and tongue; lower pharyngeals narrow, with sharp 

 teeth; gill rakers long and slender, numerous; opercle ernar- 

 ginate; preopercle and preorbital finely serrated; scales large, 

 feebly ctenoid; fins large, the anal larger than dorsal, of six 

 spines and about 17 rays; dorsal with six to eight graduated 

 spines, the spinous dorsal shorter than the soft part; caudal fin 

 emarginate; pectorals rounded or obtusely pointed, with 15 or 

 16 rays, the upper longest; ventrals close together, each with a 

 strong spine; branchiostegals seven; lateral line complete, the 

 tubes straight and extending at least on the anterior half of the 

 exposed surface of the scale; posterior processes of the premax- 

 illaries not extending to the frontals; supraoccipital and pari- 

 etal crest very strong, produced forward on the frontals to be- 

 tween the orbits; vertebrae 18+15=33. 



230 Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque 



Crappfe 



Pomoxis aiiintlaris RAFINESQUE, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I, 417, pi. 17, 

 fig. 1, ISIS, Ohi6 River "Silver perch or Goldring"; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 464, 1SS3; BEAN, Fishes, Penna. 103, pi. 30, 

 fig. 59, 1893; JORDAN & EYERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 987, 1896, 

 pi. CLIV, fig. 415, 1900. 



is a itid us GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 200, 1S57 or, U. S. Pac. 

 R. R. Exp. Fish. (5, pi. 2, figs. 5-8, 1858; GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns. 

 I, 257, 1859. 



