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tract between bases of ventrals. Vent about midway, or a little 

 behind, between tips of ventral spines and origin of spinous anal. 

 Color in alcohol faded brown, belly and lower surface of body scarcely 

 paler. Fins all pale brown, scarcely darker towards edges. Opercular 

 blotch blackish-brown, in size about f of eye, and from opposite level 

 of latter a dull brownish shade extends from upper end of preopercular 

 margin to opercular blotch, increasing to its width in its course. Iris 

 warm brownish. Inside of gill-opening pale, opercular blotch appear- 

 ing equally blackish-brown as on outside. Length 4f inches. Type. 



Lepomis palladus (Mitchill). 



Lepomis longispinis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, p. S3. Co- 

 types. Nos. 16,562 to 16,564, A. N. S. P. From St. Louis to Southern 

 California. Dr. A. L. Heermann. 



Lepomis ardesiacus Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 1866-69 (Decem- 

 ber, 1868), p. 222. Type, No. 13,106, A. N. S. P. Kiskiminitas River,. 

 Western Pennsylvania. Addison R. Guss. 



Lepomis purpurescens Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., XI, 1869-70^ 

 pp. 453, 454. Cotypes, Nos. 13,066 to 13,077, A. N. S. P. Tributary of 

 the Yadkin River in Roane county. North CaroUna. E. D. Cope. 



Lepomis mystacalis Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., XVII, 1877-78,. 

 p. 66. Cotypes, Nos. 27,834 to 27,836, A. N. S. P. Volusia, Florida. E. 

 D. Cope. 



These do not differ, though they show about 48 scales, and all agree 

 with examples from Lake Okeechobee. Other examples from Volusia 

 differ, however, most strikingly in the short gill-rakers. One has 54 

 scales in the lateral line. Another agrees with the figure of Pomotis 

 elongatus Holbrook, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) III, 1855-58 

 (May, 1855), p. 47, PI. 5. 



Examples representing Pomotis speciosus Baird and Girard, Rep. 

 Expl. Surv. R. R. Miss. Pac, X, Fish., 1858, p. 23, PI. 8, figs. 5-8; P. 

 fallax Girard, I.e., p. 27, PL 8, figs. 9-12, PI. 9, figs. 5-12, PL 10, figs. 

 1-7, and Lepomis notatus Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., XI, 

 1869-70, p. 453, have been examined. This species is very variable. 



French Broad River, N. C. (E. D. Cope) ; South Carohna (Dr. J. E. 

 Holbrook) ; Volusia and opposite mouth of St. Lucie River (E. D. Cope), 

 Caloosahatchie River, Fla. (Prof. A. Heilprin) ; Coal Creek, Tenn. 

 (E. D. Cope) ; Amana, la. (Dr. S. E. Meek) ; Leavenworth, Kan. (E. D. 

 Cope); Greenway, Ark. (Dr. Meek); Johnson's Fork of the Llano, 

 Wichita River and San Diego (E. D. Cope), Rio Seco (Dr. Kennerly) 

 and Delaware Creek, Tex. (Capt. Pope) ; Detroit?, Mich. (E. D. Cope) ;, 

 James River at Marshfield, Mo. (Drs. C. H. Gilbert and S. E. Meek); 

 Quincy, 111.; Blue River, Ind. (E. D. Cope). 



