FAMILY XVI. CENTRARCHID^. 193 



Head 2^ to 3; depth 2>; D. x, 10; A. in, 9; scales 7-38-13. Body 

 elongate, compressed; profile convex; head large; mouth moderate; 

 maxillary reaching past vertical from anterior margin of pupil, its 

 length 3^3 in head; no supplemental maxillary; snout short, 3^ to 4 

 in head; eye very large, 2^ to 3 in head; gill rakers rather strong, 

 short, about 8 in lower part of angle; opercular flap moderate, without 

 pale margin; pectoral fin short, not reaching first anal spine, its 

 length iJ/3 in head; ventral i^; dorsal spines moderate, longest 2^ 

 in head. 



Color uniform greenish, the center of each scale darker; no mark- 

 ings on fins ; a few bluish bands on cheeks. Length about 6 inches. 



This species at present is known only from Monterey, its type 

 locality. Four specimens were taken by me in a spring in Monterey. 



182. Lepidopomis pallidus (Mitchill). BLUE GILL; BLUE SUNFISH. 

 Labrus pallidus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., 1815, 407; 



New York. 



Pomotis speciosus Girard, Pac. R. R. Sur., 23, 1858; Brownsville, 

 Texas; Cadereita, Nuevo Leon: Girard, Mex. Bd. Sur., 5, 

 pi. iv, figs. 5-8, 1859; Cadereita, Nuevo Leon. 



Lepomis pallidus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur., 1878, 397; Rio 

 Grande, Brownsville, Texas: Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1896, 1005. 



Eupomotis pallidus Boulenger, Cat., i, 1896, 9. 

 Rio Grande to Florida and the Great Lakes. 



Head 2^ to 3^; depth if to 2 1 /,; D. x, n or 12; A. in, 10 or n; 

 Body comparatively short and deep, compressed (the young more 

 slender than the elder); head moderate, profile usually forming an 

 angle above eye; mouth small, the jaws subequal, the maxillary 

 scarcely reaching vertical from anterior margin of the eye; opercular 

 flap rather short, and without pale edge; gill rakers moderate, n to 13 

 on lower portion of gill arch; dorsal spines high, the longest 2 in 

 head, and usually longer than snout and eye ; pectoral fin about as long 

 as head, its tip reaching past origin of anal. 



Color greenish olive; sides often with chain-like transverse green- 

 ish bars, which disappear in adult; no blue stripes on cheeks; a dark 

 blotch on base of posterior rays of dorsal and anal fins ; opercular flap 

 without pale edge. Length about 12 inches. 



75. Eupomotis Gill & Jordan. 



Eupomotis Gill & Jordan, Field and Forest, 1877, 190. (Type, 



Spar us aureus Walbaum.) 



Body deep, more or less compressed, the back elevated; mouth 

 rather small; no supplemental maxillary bone and no teeth on pala- 



