1004 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



Subgenus HELIOPERCA, Jordan. 



1400. LEPOMIS HUMILIS (Girard). 



(Red-spotted Sfnfish.) 



Head 2i to 3 ; depth 2\ to 2^ ; eye large, 3 to 3i in head. D. X, 10 or 11 ; 

 A. Ill, 8 or 9; scales 5-34 (33 to 39)-ll; pores 25 to 32, about 5 rows on 

 cheek. Body oblong. Scales large. Spines rather high. Profiles not very 

 steep. Mucous pores on head very large; opercular flap rather long, 

 broad, with a very broad red margin, which entirely surrounds the black. 

 Longest dorsal spine not quite half head ; pectoral a little shorter than 

 head. Gill rakers rather long, blunt, x -(- 9 to 11, well developed. Bluish, 

 with conspicuous greenish spots and mottlings posteriorly ; sides with 

 many conspicuous round, salmon-red spots, usually a faint black spot on 

 last rays of dorsal ; belly and lower fins red. Length 4 inches. Ohio and 

 Kentucky to the Dakotas, Kansas , and Texas ; locally abundant, especially 

 in sandy streams of the Lower Missouri basin ; a small, highly-colored 

 species, (humilis, humble.) 



BryUuslmiriilis, Gibard, Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, 201, Sugar Loaf Creek, Arkansas. 

 BnjUns oailatns,* Cope, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 186.5, 83, Lake Whittlesey, Minnesota. 

 Lepmnis anagallimi-1, Cope, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 221, Leavenworth, Kansas. 

 Lepomix hmnUis, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 479, 18S3; Kvermann & Co.\, Keport U. S. Fish 



Coinm., XV, iii, 1893 (1895). 

 Eupomotis humilis, Boulenger, Cat., i, 30. 



1401. LEPOMIS HAPLOGNATHUS, Cope. 



Head (without flap) 3 J ; depth 2f ; eye 3^ in head without flap, equal to 

 the nearly flat interorbital space. D. X, 11; A. Ill, 9; scales 6-35-14 or 

 15, 6 rows on cheek. Form oval. Dorsal and ventral outlines subequally 

 convex. Lower lip more prominent, maxillary bone reaching anterior 

 line of orbit, lower pharyngeals narrow, with conical teeth; gill rakers 

 obtuse, rather stout ; no supplementary maxillary bone nor palatine 

 teeth. Pectorals not described ; ventrals barely reaching anal ; extremi- 

 ties of soft dorsal and anal of the same length, and falling far short of base 

 of caudal. Caudal notched at middle, the lobes beveled at the free bor- 

 ders. Opercular flaji rather long. Color olivaceous, yellowish below, a 

 blue baud crossing the preorbital bone above, and another following the 

 premaxillary border and passing along the inferior border of the orbit ; 

 below this another blue line crosses the cheek. Other blue bands have 

 been obscured by the alcohol ; flap plain black. Length of type 41 inches. 

 Monterey, Nuevo Leon. The most southern of the group to which it 

 belongs, and, the first known from Mexican waters. (Cope.) (unXouc, 

 simple; yvd^of, jaw.) 



Lepmnis haplognathus, CoPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1884 (1885), 168, Monterey, Nuevo Leon. 

 (Coll. Cope.) 



* Lepmnis ocidatus (Cope): Similar to Lfpoims humilis, but the body deeper, the caudal pedun- 

 cle and fin forming but % of length. Head short; opercular flap long, with a black spot as 

 large as eye, surrounded by a broad, pale margin; body without red spots. Depth 2J^. Scales 

 5-32-11. Length 3 inches. Minnesota.— Cope. 



