Jordan and Evermatm. — Fishes of North Atnerica. 987 



1881. POMOXIS ANNULARIS,* Bafinesquo. 



(Chappie; Bachelou ; New Light; Camphellite ; Sac-a-lait; Crapet.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2^ ; eye large, 4, reaching past pupil. D. VI, 15 ; A. VI, 

 18 ; scales 36 to 48. Body elongate. Head long, the profile more or less 

 strongly S'^haped, owing to the projecting snout, depressed occipital 

 region, and very prominent thickened antedorsal area. Mouth very wide. 

 Scales on cheeks in 4 or 5 rows. Color silvery olive, mottled with dark 

 green, the dark marks chiefly on the upper part of the body and having 

 a tendency to form narrow vertical bars ; dorsal and caudal tins marked 

 with green ; anal fin iiale, nearly plain. Fins very high, but lower than 

 in Pomoxis sparoides. Length 12 inches. Very variable. Middle United 

 States from the Great Lakes south to Texas and west to Kansas and 

 Nebraska; generally common, especially in sluggish waters, in ponds, and 

 bayous ; it strongly resembles its equally abundant congener, but the two 

 do not intergrade so far as we have seen, {aiinularis, having rings.) 

 Pomoxis annularis, Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag., 1818, 41, Falls of the Ohio River; 



BoLLMAN, Keview of the Centrarchida^, 560, pi. C8, fig. 3,1892; Jordan & Gilbekt, Synopsis, 



464, 1883. 

 CicWa storerm, KiHTLAND, Report Zoiil. Ohio, 191, 1838, Ohio River. 



Prnmoxis nUidiis, Gibard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, 200, Houston River, Kentucky. 

 Pomoxys hrevicanda, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 64, North Grand River, Missouri. 

 Pomoxijs intermedius, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865,64, no locality. 

 Poinuxi/s prulacanlhu^, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 6G, Tarboro, North Carolina. 



1382. POMOXIS SPAROIDES (Lac^pede). 

 (Calico Bass ; Grass Bass ; Barfish ; Strawberry Bass.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2. D. VII or VIII, 15 ; A. VI, 17 or 18 ; scales 40 to 45, 

 6 rows on cheek. Body oblong, elevated, much compressed. Head long, 

 its profile not strongly S-shaped, the projection of the snout and ante- 

 dorsal region and the depression over the eye being less marked than in 

 Fomoxis annularis. Mouth smaller than in P. annularis, the maxillary 

 reaching about to the posterior edge of pupil, the mandible shorter than 

 pectorals. Fins very high; anal higher than dorsal, its height 4-5 times 

 in length of body. Color silvery olive, mottled with clear olive green, 

 the dark mottlings gathered in irregular small bunches, and covering 

 the whole body ; vertical fins with dark olive reticulations surrounding 

 pale spots; the anal marked like the dorsal; a dusky opercular spot. 

 Length 12 inches. (Jreat Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley to New Jer- 

 sey, and southward to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas ; chiefiy in lowland 

 streams and lakes, abundant ; a handsome fish, valued as food ; it frequents 

 chiefly cold an;l clear waters, being rarely seen in muddy bayous. ((T-«p(jf, 

 Sparus; nSor, resemblance.) 



Lal)rus sparoidex, Lac^pkde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 517, 1802, South Carolina. 

 Canthartis iiiijroiKiKiilalHs, Le SuEUR MS., in CuviER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 88, 



1829, Wabash River. 

 Centrarclms hej-araiithiit, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 459, 1831, Charleston, 



South Carolina. 



*Tbis perfectly well-marked species is confounded with Pomoxis sparoides by Dr. Boulenger. 



