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body robust and rather more elongate than in that species; dor- 

 sal outline more arched than ventral; depth 2 to 2.3, head 2.6 

 to 2.9 in length. Mouth large, oblique, maxillary reaching con- 

 siderably past front of orbit, 2.6 to 2.9 in head; jaws about 

 equal; supplemental maxillary well developed; teeth present 

 on vomers and palatines; lower pharyngeals narrow, the teeth 

 rather bluntly pointed; eye small, 3.8 to 4.3 in head; opercle 

 produced backward and rather sharply rounded behind, trian- 

 gular; gill-rakers well developed, rather stiff and rough. Dor- 

 sal X, 11 or 12, the spines low, but slightly longer than from 

 snout to eye in young specimens, 2.2 to 2.7 in head; anal III, 9 

 or 10; pectorals short, 1.3 to 1.4 in head; ventrals reaching a 

 little past vent. Scales 6 or 7, 43-45, 14 or 15, those on cheeks 

 small, in 6 to 8 rows. Color in life not very well known; in 

 spirits dusky olive, mottled with darker, the general appear- 

 ance very much as in E. gibbosus; fin-membranes dusky, with 

 darker tessellations behind on soft dorsal and anal and near 

 base of caudal; opercular spot black, the margin paler, with 

 some red or coppery behind in life. 



Known in this state from two young specimens, 2 and 3i 

 inches in length respectively, taken in Crooked Creek, near 

 La Harpe, Illinois, in May, 1900. These specimens form the 

 basis of the present description. 



Lepomis symmetricus Forbes. 



Apotnotis symmetricus, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No, 47, p. 098. 



Not taken in Illinois since 1883, when it was described bj 

 Professor Forbes from specimens taken in the Illinois River at 

 Pekin. Found only sparingly, chiefly in the southern por- 

 tion of the state, especially the Wabash valley. 



It has not been observed that the pharyngeals of this fish 

 suggest affinities with the genus Eupomotis as hitherto sup- 

 posed. 

 Lepomis miniatus Jordan. 



Lepomis miniatus, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, p. 1002. 

 Lepomis garmani, Forbes, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., Vol. II., Art. 1 1., p. 135. — 

 Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, p. 1002. 



Specimens which I now refer to this species were de- 



