994 Bulletin 4J, United States National Museum. 



aual. Gill rakers x + 9 or 10. Lateral line usually, but not always, com- 

 plete. Color dark olive; young with traces of narrow vertical, darker 

 bars ; ear flap small, with a blue border and a pearly sjjot in front ; a dark 

 bar about width of pujiil extending obliquely downward below eye; 

 sides of head, whole body and vertical fins, iu the males, with round 

 bright blue spots arranged iu irregular rows, these spots most distinct on 

 the cheeks and opercles and on the lower part of the sides ; females duller, 

 with larger and fainter spots more regular in position ; a dark bar below 

 eye. Length 2f inches. New Jersey to Florida, iu clear, sluggish 

 streams; a beautiful little fish. (//Zoriosus, glorious). 



BrijUvs r/lorioms, HoLBROOK, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1855, 51, Cooper River, South Caro- 

 lina. 

 liemioplilcs sinmlans. Cope, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1808, 218, Tuckahoe Creek, near 



Richmond, Virginia. (Coll. Cope.) 

 Enneacantlms ijiiiniger, Jordan, Bull, x, U. S. Nat. Mus., 27, 1877, Tar River, Kinston, North 



Carolina; .sjiecimeus with bright colors and very high lins; jirobably not wurtliy of vaiietal 



distinction. 

 Enneacanthns margarotis, Gill A Jordan, Bull, x, U. S. Nat. Mus., 28, 1877, Beesley Point. 



New Jersey. 

 .* Copelandia* criarcha, Jordan, Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, 56, tyjie specimen received from 



Dr. Philo R. Hoy, said to be from Menomonee River, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 



this is probably an error, and the specimens really came from New Jersey. 

 Enneacantlms sinmlans, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 470, 1883. 

 Enneacanlhus gloriosns, Bollman, 1. c, 564. 

 Enneacantlms eriarclms, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 469, 1883; Bollman, I, c, 564. 



457. MESOGONISTIUS,t Gill. 

 (Banded Sunfishes.) 



Mesuyonistius, Gill, Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts., 1864, 92, (chsetudon). 



Body short and deep, compressed. Mouth small. Teeth present on 

 vomer and palatines, none on the tongue ; supplemental maxillary bone 

 small. Gill rakers rather strong, dentate. Opercle ending in two flat 

 points, with a dermal border ; preopercle entire. Scales large. Dorsal 

 with 10 spines ; outline of the fin angulated, the middle spines being much 

 longer than some of the posterior ones ; anal fin much smaller than the 

 dorsal, with 3 spines; caudal fin posteriorly rounded ; pectoral obtusely 

 pointed, the upper rays longest. Size small, {/niaog, middle; yuvia, angle; 

 iariov, sail.) 



* Enneacantlms eriarclms (Jordan): 



Dorsal X, 7; anal IV, 8; scales 33. A'entral spine reaching anal. Olivaceous; vertical fins 

 witli round, ])ale spots. Only two specimens known; the original type, iiurporting to be from 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, another from Tabo Creek, Missouri. Both these specimens were received 

 from Dr. I'. R. Hoy. Tliere is no doubt a confusion of localities, and probably botli came from 

 Delaware River, iierhaps fiom Dr. Abbott's collection. This is especially probable, as a 

 specimen of Stolephorns In-tmmii was found in the same collection, also attributed to Milwaulfee. 



t Dr. Boulenger unites this genus and Enneacantlms witli Apomolis. In our judgment Apomotis 

 is scarcely distinct from Lepomis, with which genus Mesogonistina and Enneacanthns have no very 

 close affinities. 



