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and larvae of insects early in the season; later its food consists 

 of minnows and crawfish. The young feed on insects and their 

 larvae. The spawning season is May and June, and gravelly 

 shoals are resorted to for depositing the eggs. 



The rock bass bites very freely and is a fair game fish and 

 excellent for the table. It fights vigorously, but its endurance 

 is not great. Suitable baits are white grubs, crickets, grass- 

 hoppers, crawfish and small minnows. Common earthworms are 

 also successfully used. 



Genus chaenobryttus Gill 



This genus has the general form and dentition of A m b 1 o - 

 p 1 i t e s , with the convex opercle, 10 dorsal and three anal 

 spines of L e p o m i s . Preopercle entire; branchiostegals six; 

 caudal fin emarginate; scales weakly ctenoid; vertebrae 13+16= 

 29; posterior processes of the premaxillaries extending nearly 

 to the f rentals; frontals posteriorly with a transverse ridge con- 

 necting the parietal and supraoccipital crest, which are very 



strong. 



234 Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuv. & Val.) 



Waivnouth; Goggle-eye 



Pomotis gulosus Cuvier & Valexciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Ill, 498, 1829, 

 Lake Pontchartrain and lagoons about New Orleans. 



Centrarchiis mridis Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit. YII, 4G0, 1831, 

 Charleston, S. C. 



Centrarchus gulosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, op, cit. VII, 459, 1831; 

 GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 258, 1859, 



Chaenohryttus antistius McKay, Proc. IT. S. Nat, Mus. 88, 1881, Lake Michi- 

 gan; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat, Mus. 467, 1883. 



Chacnohnjttus gulosus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, IT. S. Nat. Mus. 468, 

 1883; BoLLMAN, Kept. U. S. F, C. XVI, 562, pi, 69, fig. 3, 1892; Jordan 

 & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 992, 1896, pi, CLVII, fig. 421. 

 1900, 



The body of the warmouth is heavy and deep, more elongate 



than in L e p o m i s , its greatest depth contained Irom two to 



two and one half times in total length without caudal; head 



rather long, its length contained from two and one fifth to two 



and two thirds times in the total without caudal; eye large,^ 



about one fourth as long as the head, and about equal to the 



snout; mouth large, the maxillary reaching to below hind margin 



of eye; gill rakers eight or nine besides some rudiments; oper- 



