FISHES OF NEW YORK 473 



The banded suufish inhabits coastwise streams from Massachu- 

 setts to Florida. It occurs in southeastern Pennsylvania but is 

 rare. 



This species grows to a length of 3 inches. It is olive green 

 in color with five to eight dark cross bars intermingled with 

 golden or purplish spots. There are lines and spots also on the 

 cheeks. The flap on the opercle contains a velvety black spot 

 with a purple border. Below the eye is a dark bar. This is a 

 beautiful little species, but has no economic importance. 



In our vicinity it inhabits the entire Hackensack valley, pre- 

 ferring quiet, weedy places. For the aquarium it is the most 

 desirable of all the sunfishes, as w 7 ell on account of its hardiness 

 as of its harmless nature. Eugene Fntith 



236 Enneacanthus gloriosus (Hoi brook) 



Blue-spotted Sun fish 



Bryttus glories us HOLBBOOK, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 52, pi. 5, fig. 4, 

 1855, Cooper River, S. C.; GUNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 260, 1859. 



Hemioplites shnulans COPE, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 218, 18G8, Tuckahoe 

 Creek, near Richmond, Ya. 



Ennedcantlms simulans JOBDAN & GILBEET, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 470, 

 1883; BEAN, Fishes Penna. 108, 1893, Trenton, N. J. 



EnncacaiitJnis eriarcltns JOEDAN & GILBEET, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 4,9, 

 1883. 



EnncacaiitJnis criarcJnts JOEDAN & GILBEET, op. cit. 469, 1883. 



EnncacaiitJnis gloriosus ROLLMAN, Rept. U. S. F. C. XVI, 564, 1892; JOEDAN 

 & EVEBMANN. Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 993, 1896, pi. CLVIII, fig. 442, 

 1900; MEABNS, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. X, 319, 1898. 



The blue-spotted sunfish has an elliptic body, its greatest 

 depth one half of the total length without the caudal, its thick- 

 ness nearly two fifths of its depth. Caudal peduncle short, its 

 least depth one third of greatest depth of body. Head moder- 

 ately large, three eighths of total length without the caudal; 

 snout very short and oblique, two thirds as long as the eye, 

 which is nearly one third as long as the head; mouth moderately 

 large, oblique, the broadly expanded maxilla reaching nearly to 

 below front of pupil; lower jaw slightly projecting; the oper- 

 culuni ends in two flat points, between which there is a dark spot 

 two thirds as long as tin- eye and bordered below by a narrow 

 pearly stripe; gill rakers short and stout, 11 developed on first 



