Jordan and £vermann. — Fishes of North America. 1007 



cle rather elongate. Snout projecting, forming an angle above eye. 

 Mouth wide, the lower jaw projecting; maxillary reacliing just past front 

 of pupil. Eye as long as opercular flap ; flap moderate, broad, with a 

 very wide pale edge below and behind. Dorsal spines moderate, as long 

 as snout and half of orbit; pectoral short, reaching tips ofventrals. 

 Lower pharyngeal teeth blunt, almost paved. Light olive, uniform in 

 spirits ; traces of dusky mottlings on last rays of dorsal and anal. Length 

 7 inches. Georgia to Texas ; not common, but few specimens known. 

 (pallidus, pale.) 



Ponwtis pallidus, Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, 1854, 303 (name preoccupied in Li'pomis l)y 



LabnisjitilUdus, MlTCHii.L, liut not in Enpomotis. 

 BriiUus albulus, GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, 200, Rio Blanco, Texas ; (Type, 421). 

 Xystropliles gillH, JORDAN, Bull, x, U. S. Nat. Mus., 24, 1877, "Garden Key, Florida" 



(undoubtedly an error, as there is no fresh water stream or pond on the island of Garden 



Key). 

 Lepnmis albnbts, JoRPAN & Gilbert, Synopsis, 481, 1883; Bollman, I. c, 675. 

 Lepomis lines, McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 89, {a,fter Pomotis pallidum, Agassiz). 



Subgenus EUPOMOTIS. 

 140.5. EUPOMOTIS HEROS (Baird & Giranl). 



Head 2.f to 3 ; depth 2 to 2? ; eye 3^ to i}; snout 3A to 4. D. X, 11 ; A. 

 Ill, 11 ; scales 4-34 to 39-13, 4 rows on cheek. Appearance of Lepomis 

 2)alUdus, Body robust, moderately elongate, dorsal and ventral outlines 

 about equally curved ; bead rather large, the projecting snout forming a 

 considerable angle above the eye. Mouth rather wide, oblique, the 

 maxillary reaching slightly past front of eye. Longest dorsal reaching 

 past posterioi' border of jiupil ; pectorals reaching beyond middle of anal ; 

 ventral spine IJ to 11 in distance between origin of ventrals and anus. 

 Opercular flap smaller than eye, smaller than in E. holbrooki, much as in 

 E. gihhosus. Gill rakers short and not very stiff. Pharyngeal teeth 

 paved ; the pharyngeal teeth not so blunt as in E. holbrooM or in E. (jihho- 

 sus. Life colors dark greenish above, gradually becoming brassy toward 

 the belly, which is light brassy ; opercular spot greenish black, the flap 

 with a broad, blood-red border in the male, plain in the female; no spot 

 on dorsal or anal fin. Southern Indiana to Florida and the Rio Grande 

 basin, in lowland streams; rather rare, (vpur, hero; Heros is the name 

 of a genus of Cichlida', which these fishes resemble.) 



Pomotis heros, Baird & Girard,* Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., March, 1854, 25. Rio Cibolo, 

 Texas. 



orange border behind; there is a black spot at the base of the posterior rays of the dorsal; both 

 dorsal and anal are marked by 1 or 2 dark stripes; the caudal is crossed by several dotted vertical 

 lines; there are 8 or 9 dusky bars across the sides between the head and tail. This speiies bears 

 the same relation to Pmnotix that I'diiw.ris bears to the tr\ie Ceiilrarrhiis in the size of the mouth 

 and form of the liody, and I have no doubt it will some day become tlie type of a distinct genus." 

 (Agassiz.) Tennessee Kiver, at Huntsville, Alabama. We are informed by Mr. Kicliard Bliss 

 that the types of this species have the iiharyngeals paved. Since these pages have been put in 

 type we have received from Mr. Samuel Garman a description of .\gas.siz's type whiih leaves 

 little doubt of its identity with the jircsent species. It has: Head 2?-.,: depth 2';,. D. X. 10; A. 

 Ill, 10. .Sralcs 5-3G-13. Pectoral shorterthan head barely reaching front of anal; mouth large, 

 with projecting snout, the maxillary nearly reaching middle of pupil; last xiiys of dorsal and 

 anal dusky above base. 



